MyEcoTrack App
The MyEcoTrack App is a mobile app designed for easy use by young people and educators working with young people to raise their awareness on climate change and inspire changes to lifestyle to reduce their carbon footprint. For this reason the App consists of both a factbook part and a carbon footprint tracker.
The whole app has been designed to be usable both in formal education formats by educators, but also (and primarily) to be used by interested young people in their free time on their own. It includes various interactive and multimedia elements to be more engaging.
Fact sheet
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Fact sheet
- Challenge Tackled
As climate change still is often not very well understood and awareness of what aspects of personal lifestyle affect it is not always present, the App works to highlight the issue of climate change and inform learners to about the different aspects of it and how to best adjust lifestyle to reduce carbon footprint - Target group, beneficiaries or clients
Young people and educators working with young people. - Solution
An app to inform, raise awareness and inspire lifestyle changes. - Innovation
The App combines an informational multimedia factbook and a carbon footprint tracker to create an interactive and engaging means for young people to learn the basics of the phenomenon of climate change and identify areas in their personal behaviour with potential for improvement to reduce carbon footprint. - Unique Selling Point
The makes information easily available as a mobile app that can be read and viewed in free time in various situations, is engaging and allows for young people to promote it among each other. - Impact
The App is available for Android and iOS and is being promoted both to young people, but also to people who want to incorporate it into other educational offers, with a guide book of useful exercises being developed. - Feasibility/Transferability
This method is easily adaptable to other areas where awareness ought to be raised.
- Challenge Tackled
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