INFORSE-Europe

29/08/2026

We are at Klimafolkemødet presenting Energy Literacy for Youth - ELY VedvarendeEnergi og Judit Szoleczky Gunnar B Olesen Henning Bo Madsen Bod 37 from 11

18/08/2026

😍😍 Greetings from the European Sustainable Energy Seminar (17-19/8) at the Nordisk Folkecenter INFORSE-Europe members meeting on Sufficiency as Climate Action and Energy Literacy for Youth - ELY. Zaļie.lv Naturvernforbundet Naturskyddsföreningen Eesti Roheline Liikumine Környezeti Tervezési és Nevelési Hálózat Экодом Za Zemiata (For the Earth)
Global 100% RE Don't nuke the climate Gunnar B Olesen Judit Szoleczky Béla Munkácsy Henning Bo Madsen

13/06/2026

At European Sustainable Energy Week in Brussels (Stand 24). ONE STOP SHOP: Green Energy Transition - , , . Watch LEGO house with PV , windmill, greenhouse. History challenge on windmill & solar energy. INFORSE-Europe cooperation projects:
- Energy Literacy for Youth - ELY Erasmus+ Project, participatory education (board games, role play, Lego build your energy community) and
- as in Nordic Baltic countries projects (co-funded by The Nordic Council of Ministers.)
😊 Meet the Team at the Stand:
- Judit Szoleczky, Pete West from INFORSE-Europe
- Kestutis Kupsys from Lithuanian Consumers Alliance
- Lorenzo Capuano from Green Hub, Legambiente

The INFORSE Projects’ Partners are:
INFORSE-Europe (DK), Naturskyddsföreningen (SSNC) (Sweden), Norges Naturvernforbundet (Norway) Latvian Green Movement/ Zaļā kustība (Latvia) Eesti Roheline Liikumine / Estonian Green : ELY: MigLAB (Germany) Fundacja Otwarty Plan (Poland),, YEE - Youth and Environment Europe
More: > Sufficiency as Climate Action: https://inforse.org/europe/Sufficiency_as_Climate_Action_Project.htm
> ELY Project on INFORSE-Europe: https://inforse.org/europe/ELY-energy-literacy-for-youth.htm
> Energy Literacy for Youth - ELY: https://energyliteracyforyouth.eu/

06/06/2026

☀️😍⚡Thanks for the great event: From EU green goals to local handling on energy communities! off/online at the Nordisk Folkecenter. We had:
👉Morten Westergaard (Energyifællesskaber Danmark og ny direktør ved Samsø Energiakademi (Samsø Energy Academy)
👉 Henning Bo Madsen (INFORSE-Europe) about the European perspectives EU directives, REScoop.eu; Lise Nielson (Nordisk Energiforskning) about the Nordic connections to EU.
👉 Gunnar B Olesen (VedvarendeEnergi og INFORSE) with steps how to go forward.
👉Gitte Davidsen (Nordisk Folkecenter) about theory to practis
👉Moderator: Jane Kruse, direktør of the Nordic Foleceneter for Renewable Energy.
After presentations and workshop we had discussion on how to go forward
The event was financially supported by Europa-Nævnet.
👉 Afterwards, Judit Szoleczky presented the participatory training methods developed by Energy Literacy for Youth - ELY (games, role play, experiments etc) an Erasmus+ project across europe, and discussed its use in Denmark e.g. at Tvind, and the Nordic Folkecenter.

26/05/2026

🌿🏘🏡 📅 🇩🇰 30. maj, 🕑 Kl. 13–15 Energifællesskaber og EU’s grønne målsætninger, ONLINE og ved Nordisk Folkecenter med Lise Nielson, Gunnar B Olesen, Henning Bo Madsen, Morten Mejsen Westergaard, Nordic Energy Research, Nordic Folkecenter for Renewable Energy, INFORSE-Europe, VedvarendeEnergi, Samsø Energiakademi (Samsø Energy Academy),

🌿🏘🏡Energifællesskaber og EU’s grønne målsætninger

Hvordan kan lokale energifællesskaber være med til at understøtte EU’s grønne omstilling og hvilken rolle kan borgere, lokalsamfund og organisationer spille?

Det sætter vi fokus på ved vores kommende arrangement:

📅 Dato: 30. maj 2026
🕑 Tid: Kl. 13.00 – 15.00
📍 Sted: SkibstedFjord-bygningen, Nordisk Folkecenter, Kammersgaardsvej 16, 7760 Hurup Thy
💻 Deltagelse: Mulighed for både fysisk og online deltagelse

Arrangementet er støttet af Europa-Nævnet som led i et 3-årigt projekt.

Tilmeldingslink på Folkecenter Event: https://www.folkecenterevents.net/.

Direkte link til tilmelding: https://www.folkecenterevents.net/pages/Register_Energy_communities2.php

12/05/2026

😍♻️ 🚴‍♀️We invite to Join us ONLINE on 3/6 on Sufficiency - Lifestyle DIALOGUE on NGO/CSO further development of proposals on new results of surveys in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Latvia, Estonia Belarus.

👉 Registration Link (zoom): https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/9q_OuLA2QPO109OqgmXlxA

The event is in the framework of the Project Sufficiency as Climate Action and for Sustainable Lifestyles in Nordic & Baltic Countries and Belarus - 2025-26.

👉 Read more on the project:
https://inforse.org/europe/Sufficiency_as_Climate_Action_Project.htm

Organised by the Project Partners:
* INFORSE-Europe
* The Swedish Society for Nature Conservation - Svenska Naturskyddsföreningen,
The Norwegian Society for the Conservation of Nature - Norges Naturvernforbundet
* Latvian Green Movement - Zaļie.lv Latvijas Zala Kustiba
* Estonian Green Movement - Eesti Roheline Liikumine
* Ecohome NGO in Belarus /Ekokoncepcija in Lithuania.

Contact: Gunnar B Olesen, INFORSE-Europe, VedvarendeEnergi
INFORSE-Europe, International Network for Sustainable Energy

07/05/2026

😍♻️🔆We had a great event on Sufficiency as Climate Action in Nordic Baltic countries. Download the presentations from:
https://inforse.org/europe/Sufficiency_as_Climate_Action_Project.htm
Title: Sufficiency as Climate Action - Nordic Baltic Countries - Experiences and proposals from: Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Norway, Sweden and Perspectives from Belarus. - 20 April 2026

The seminar presented results of surveys, and proposals for sufficiency policies and how to communicate them,
- SWEDEN by Marit Widman, SSNC.
- NORWAY by Sofie Van Canegem, NNV
- DENMARK by Gunnar B Olesen, INFORSE-Europe
- ESTONIA by Juta Kruusmae, EGM
- LATVIA by Janis Matulis, LaGM
- BELARUS by Irina Sukhy, Ecohome
The Seminar was organised by the project partners - INFORSE-Europe, Svenska Naturskyddsföreningen - Swedish Society for Nature Conservation (SSNC), Norges Naturvernforbundet - FoE-Norway, Zaļie.lv Latvijas Zala Kustiba - Latvian Green Movement (LaGM), Eesti Roheline Liikumine - Estonian Green Movement (EGM), Ecohome NGO in Belarus /Ekokoncepcija in Lithuania. Project is supported by The Nordic Council of Ministers

26/04/2026

CHERNOBYL 40 years.
Today, April 26, 2026, it is 40 years since Chernobyl reactor 4 exploded in the most serious nuclear power disaster to date. Now, 40 years later, there is still a closed zone of 30 km in diameter with radioactive hotspots. The destroyed reactor itself still contains a lot of radioactive material and is shielded by a so-called sarcophagus, which, if all goes well, can last for 100 years. After that, our descendants will build a new one for the next 100 years and so on. And unfortunately, all is not well with the sarcophagus: a hole was already punched in the sarcophagus in a Russian drone attack on February 14, 2025 (see picture).
In the rest of Europe, where large amounts of radioactive material were dispersed, there have been restrictions on the use of mutton meat as far away as Wales until 2012 due to the radioactivity of the meat. And in Ukraine and Belarus alone, the cost of the disaster is estimated at $384 billion for the first 30 years, according to estimations by UNDP and UNICEF with UNOCHA and WHO (2002). This is equivalent to 80% of the Danish annual GDP.
Have we learned anything from the Chernobyl disaster?
We have been taught someone about nuclear power safety; but we should learn that the owners of the nuclear power plants must pay for the costs they cause, so that innocent people are not again made to pay for costs corresponding to the Danish annual GDP, as happened with the Chernobyl disaster. Unfortunately, in most countries the liability is limited to less than 1% of the costs caused by Chernobyl, so there is a long way to go. We can also learn that the location far from larger cities had the advantage that there were only smaller towns that had to be evacuated. Now nuclear power supporters, in particular supporter of the small-and middle sized SMR’s, want to place nuclear power plants in harbours and near cities. So they obviously do not want to learn from the experience and instead expose many citizens to the risk of living close to a nuclear power plant.
Let us use the anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster to consider if it is really a good idea to build more nuclear power plants or rather choose a transition away from fossil fuels with safer alternatives? This consideration must also include the fact that renewable energy sources and energy efficiency today are both much cheaper and far faster to establish than nuclear power.
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