Seniors Climate Action
Empowering Seniors as Sustainability Champions
How can creative education empower learners and professionals to lead the Green Transition through sustainable design and innovation?
How can we empower elderly visual artists to address climate change and influence environmentally friendly habit adoption among elderly individuals? Climate change is a pressing global issue, and interestingly, the growing ageing population, which is projected to comprise 21.1% of the global population by 2050, is among the highest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions. Despite this, climate action does not resonate with older individuals often, due to challenges like social isolation, health concerns, and limited mobility. Seniors Climate Action mobilises older adults as active agents of environmental change, creating opportunities for them to engage in climate action and civic processes long denied to them. By recognising the knowledge and lived experience older people bring, from decades spent in the places most affected by environmental change to a stake in the future they're helping build, it challenges the ageist assumptions that have kept them on the sidelines, and positions seniors as genuine contributors to climate solutions.
Visit project websiteOutcomes & Resources
Climate Action Guide for Seniors
This guide is not an academic course. It’s a practical, hands-on resource designed specifically for older adults who want to better understand the environmental challenges we face and use their art to do something about it. Whether you paint, photograph, craft, or simply care, this is for you. Catch the key takeaways.
E-learning Space
The platform offers a virtual gallery where visual artists over 60 can exhibit artworks that address social and environmental issues. It provides a space for visibility, expression, and connection, while also supporting self-paced learning and exchange across borders. Visit the exhibition.
Facilitators’ Guide to Climate and Ageing
A hands-on guide for professionals, providing creative methods to involve seniors in climate-related actions. It addresses common participation barriers and promotes meaningful engagement through arts-based approaches. Catch the key takeaways.
Project Outcomes & News
Meeting People Where the Memory Is
Creative Methods for Involving Seniors in Climate Action
The Weather Remembers, and So Do You
A Reflective Guide for Older Adults Living Through Environmental Change
Evangelia Ploumistou
An International Gathering
The Voices, Vision and the Results
Evangelia Ploumistou
Podcast with Jenny Marketou
Art as an ecological intervention
Artit
Listening to the Generation That Watched It Happen
Seniors Climate Action Podcast Series
Evangelia Ploumistou
Building Confidence, One Conversation at a Time
A Toolkit for the People Who Work Alongside Seniors
Evangelia Ploumistou
Climate Action Has No Age Limit
How Senior Artists Across Europe Are Reshaping the Climate Conversation
Artit
Whose Experience Counts as Expertise?
Inside a Climate Curriculum Built by, and for, Senior Artists
Evangelia Ploumistou
Empowering Senior Artists for a Greener Tomorrow
Seniors Climate Action
Project Partners
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
