a 30-day change experiment

cCHALLENGE is a powerful and fun solution to engage employees, customers, staff, citizens, members, audiences, or students with climate and sustainability goals. For 30 days you will create powerful stories around climate change and sustainability, open up the solutions space, and activate people to create change.

cCHALLENGE was developed by Professor, Karen O'Brien, co-founder of cCHANGE, an Oslo-based social start-up helping organisations generate transformations to sustainability.

cCHALLENGE makes use of the most powerful solution to climate change that exists. People.

*- Karen O’Brien, Co-Founder*

We draw on decades of research, helping people explore the practical, political, and personal dimensions of change, and unleash their creativity, courage, and motivation to contribute to sustainability solutions.

cCHALLENGE: A FLEXIBLE TOOL

cCHALLENGE can be used in a range of different ways. It has been used by businesses, municipalities, NGOs, schools, and universities.
Here are examples of how the tool has been used in the past.

Interdisciplinary sustainability project for schools

cCHALLENGE works brilliantly to engage students and teachers in a 30-day period. Ringstabekk school in Bærum engaged 150 students in 2024 to challenge unsustainable consumption and build a culture of embracing each other and sustainability, with the help of the cCHALLENGE tool.

Youth leadership Program

Young people have the capacity to create change - to shift systems and cultures that are not in line with the future they want. In 2019 we launched our youth leadership program, using cCHALLENGE as a tool for practicing leadership for change.

People in Nesodden municipality leading the way

People’s stories of change can be powerful inspirations for others. Nesodden municipality is exploring how their citizens can play a different and more impactful role for an equitable transformation to sustainability. Visit the project page here.

cchallenge as a powerful educational tool

How can we equip students with the learning, experience and supportive structures they need to reach their fullest potential as citizens and active participants in creating a sustainable and equitable future? As part of a Horizon 2020 project, SEAS, schools across Europe are using the cCHALLENGE tool in their education to explore this question.

MAYORS MAKE SUSTAINABILITY PERSONAL

13 mayors in the Oslo region took climate change into their own hands and explored sustainable change for 30 days. Assumptions were challenged, habits changed, and new connections between the personal, the political and the practical became visible.

a national cchallenge experiment

Throughout September 2019, OBOS and cCHANGE engaged thousands of people across Norway to take a challenge for the environment, with great results. Read more here (in Norwegian) or see what happened on Facebook.

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