Key activities of the project involve
- staff capacity building training
- coach trainings
- EcoTeams and Household Check programmes for immigrants and Roma participants, for office workers, and a new topic for households
Main results of the project
- The trainers will learn and use blended training methods and new training techniques and will become more efficient in coaching and mentoring
- The trained coaches will become real agents of change, who will be able to assist final beneficiaries in their behaviour change journey in climate friendly living
- As part of the project, the partners are developing new training agendas, educational kits and online-self learning platforms for their target groups
What happened so far?
- Our partnership has completed the staff capacity building, which consisted of a 2-day training session in Hamburg and 9 online sessions. The topics included Attkisson „Amoeba theory“, coaching and facilitation skills, empowering coaching, values-based approach to behaviour change, programme development methods, and various sessions on chemicals (in the kitchen, in articles, their relations to health and climate change), positive climate conversations, consumerism and online self-learning platforms.
- The partners have developed their coach trainings and finalized the related tools (online self-learning platforms, training agendas, workbooks etc).
- BEF has trained and is mentoring almost 150 coaches. They are working with offices and households of Turkish Communities and other households, and reached over 90 households/office employees so far.
- TVE has trained 57 new coaches in 2025, who launched over 40 Simpler Life EcoTeams study groups, reaching over 200 people. The Healthy Household study groups for disadvantaged target groups and the Office EcoTeams for employees have be also tested.
- GAP NL has trained 30 coaches during 4 trainings. The first group of coaches reached over 150 final beneficiaries, and the others are currently running a pilot campaign within their own organisations.
- The second rounds of EcoTeams (in Hungary and the Netherlands) and the second rounds of HouseholdChecks are currently happening in the project countries.
What have we developed so far?
TVE has developed the following materials and tools:
- An in-person coach training and coach guide for the new Simple Life Ecoteams programme
- An online self-learning platform for the Simple Life Ecoteams’ coaches
- A workbook for the Simple Life Ecoteams programme
- A coaching guide and workbook for the Office EcoTeams
- A coaching guide and workbook for the Roma and fewer opportunity target groups
GAP NL developed the following materials and tools:
- factsheets on 12 different topics
- A manual on the 10-step approach (including exercises for coaches)
- A toolkit for coaches (action plan, action list per topic, questionnaire per topics, spot checks, template for case studies)
- A training agenda for the coach training
BEF has developed the following materials and tools
- An in-person coach and communication training session for households in German and Turkish
- An online office training sessions including communication and facilitation topics in German
- Digital training materials on chemicals in households in Turkish
- Printed materials on chemicals in households and offices in Turkish and in German
- A Moodle platform section for office coaches for self-learning
