ZERO project: Second winter of POW workshops

“Pay even more attention to carpooling or bus transportation to get me to the mountains.”

When we see a statement like this, we feel joy about realizing the ZERO project’s objective. In the project, we have dual aims – one, to engage young people in snowboarding and two, to empower these young people to be climate advocates in their daily life and in their snowboarding life. To achieve the second aim, POW Europe, a project partner, is delivering their second winter of climate workshops.Throughout winter 24/25, from Portugal to Finland, these workshops will positively impact the future generation. How?

• A presentation will lay the groundwork of what climate change is, how it is affecting the world, and what this means for winter sports. Remember this workshop is for young kids, some might not have heard of climate change before!
• Interactive activities – we don’t need to go over the research that everyone retains knowledge better when doing something tangible. We run activities that teach children how sustainable action can be part of their everyday life to the wider structural changes that must occur. This latter part might sound grandeur for children but our Climate Card game has proven itself as an effective teacher.
• Doing the challenges of the Chall app

Establishing a collaboration with CHALL, home of digital social challenges and video competitions for the ZERO Platform, the aim is to establish an online snowboard community by introducing the big international snowboard community to the video-contest series with 6 video-challenges for all kids interested in a sustainable lifestyle and those that are curious to participate in an environment-friendly way of snowboarding. The challenges reach from the community-aspect of snowboarding with the “best handshake” to give your snowboard a new life to travel to the slopes with public transport. Cool prizes are up for wins, among them lift-tickets for key WSPL events such as the World Tour Finals in Kitzsteinhorn and other goodies and discounts.

Link to the app: https://chall.it/WSF

Workshops are taking place throughout the winter in between laps on the slope, of course. Here are photos from our workshop in Belgium and Finland.

Photo-Credits: (c) Sneeuwsport Vlaanderen, Finnish Snowboard Association