On 10 September, the Education for Climate Coalition will host the monthly café, situated around a theme of ‘energy communities’.
Trine, Community Manager, will welcome participants (5 minutes) and then hand over to Martin Brocklehurst, a community member with expertise in transforming schools into energy communities.
Martin will take on the role of host and guide, using questions to spark reflection and inspire participants to consider what it might take, in their own local contexts, to become an energy hub or community.
Martin will lead the Café with a dialogue, driven by guiding questions on where participants’ energy comes from and what they understand an energy community to be (15 minutes). This will include a short Slido poll to check how many of the participants actually know where their energy come from.
After the Slido, to use a new medium of stimuli, a short video introducing energy communities will be shown (5 minutes) which will then be followed by a short testimonial from Sara Alcantarilla Moreno, Head of School Studies, Palomeras Cultural Centre School in Spain, who helped transform her school into one (5 minutes).
Building on this inspiration, participants will then move into a collaborative mapping exercise on the Miro board (15-20 minutes), exploring the first steps of creating an energy community. The session will conclude with open reflections and free discussion (5-10 minutes), and final remarks.
Date: 10 September 2025, 17.00 – 18.00 CEST
Webex: https://e4c.my.webex.com/e4c.my/j.php?MTID=mf51d72c6861ccdd25f8e4092bcf58865
Event page: https://education-for-climate.ec.europa.eu/community/challenge_hub/event/community-cafe-september
