General Assembly : assessments and perspectives

Dear Freskers,

Climate Fresk’s General Assembly took place on Saturday 5 February. Here is a summary of the Assembly, just for you !

Let’s start with the impressive numbers. Climate Fresk has officially reached over 300,000 participants, 13,000 people have trained to become facilitators, in more than 50 countries and 35 languages!! A huge thank you to each and everyone of you for contributing to this success!

During the GA we looked back on 2021, and made grand plans for 2022: namely the goal of reaching 1 million people before 2023! The new members of the Board were also approved by a vote.

Below is a summary of the Assembly, you can also find a detailed presentation in French here, and a recording of it here.

First of all, the main facts and figures of 2021:

• The permanent team

→ grew and organised itself into departments: went from 15 to 20 people, and 5 long-term position were created

→ is now in tackling major programmes: CEKO, corporate relations, relations with professional Freskers

→ Find all the info about the team in the latest Newsletter here

• Implementation of processes and tools to keep up with the rapid growth

→ Fresker’s Journey

→ Process for inbound requests (CEKO and private companies)

→ MOOC

→ Online shop

→ Monitoring indicators for the NGO’s various activities

• CEKO: more than 128,000 students reached in 281 schools and universities. More than 480 Freskers got involved. 

• General public: 150 online workshops and 295 online training sessions organised by the NGO

• Private entities: 66,785 employees participated

• Climate Mandate: 366 elected officials, 25 parliamentarians and 40 parliamentary assistants participated

→ NGO members will approve the Financial Statement at the next General Assembly which will take place in June. We will keep you informed!

• 2 major highlights:

→ the Climate fresk Festival, at La Cité Fertile: 50 speakers, 150 Freskers and 2,700 participants

→ COP26: 167 Freskers in Glasgow, 775 participants, 161 new facilitators (from twelve new countries). Climate Fresk reached people from 144 new countries

What’s to come in 2022:

The priorities:

• Upgrading the quality of the training sessions
• Intensify the proportion of workshops happening face-to-face
• Better measure our activities and our impact
• Intensify external communication
• Actively develop the activities internationally

The major initiatives resulting from all this:

• The creation of a Platform for the organisation of workshops/trainings and deployment within organisations
• Legal structuring of activities and increase in “quality”.

→ Standardisation of the different Climate Fresk deployment models

→ Enhancement of the Fresker’s Journey

→ Consolidation of a deployment/quality label offer for organisations

⇒ moving towards the requirements to become a publicly certified training organisation

• The permanent team is recruiting new roles to better support the community:

→ Partnership officer

→ Web Developer

→ Pedagogy: learning material, fresker’s Journey, etc.

→ Engagement: in person workshops, relation to local coordinator, etc.

→ International Development: Project Manager

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Election of the 2022 Board:

• From 3 to 5 women on the Board (i.e. from 25% to 41%)
• Half of the Board renewed
• A warm Thank You to the outgoing members of the Board for their dedication and their work: Céline Belissont, Mary Emeury-Leleu, Nicolas Gourdain, Stéphane Kersulec, Cyril Retourné and Charles Sirot

Here are the new members of the Board. You can find out more about everyone of them in their bio.

• The Bureau (renewed) :
  *Cédric Ringenbach – President,
  *Jérôme Cohen – Secretary General
  *Frédéric Giuli – Treasurer
  
  
• Elected members of the College of referents :
  *Ludovic Kasperski – Swiss coordinator
  *Jérome Lhote – Hauts de Seine coordinator
  *Ana Robb – Croatian coordiator
  

• Elected member of the College of Instructors :
  *Francois-Joseph Grimault (renewed)
  
  
• Elected members of the College of trainers:
  *Corinne dos Santos – Montpellier coordinator,
  *Valentine Haran
   
• Members appointed by the outgoing Board:
  *Dominique Buinier
  *Benoît Marienval (renewed)
  *Juliette Nouel (renewed)