Last February, the American University of Central Asia (AUCA) in Bishkek (capital of Kyrgyzstan), hosted its first Climate Fresk workshops, thus reaching 120 students from 10 different universities of the country.
Initiated and organized by Olga Tarabashkina, PhD University of Adelaide and Associate Professor at the AUCAโs Department of Sociology, and Cholpon Aitakhunova, Fellow Researcher on International Climate Protection at the Ggerman Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Climate Fresk was deployed at the AUCA in a typical CEKO-way.
First through the training of 20 teachers, eco-activists and volunteering students, who did their first Fresk on the 5th of February, and were then trained to become Freskers themselves. 3 weeks later, they facilitated their first Climate Fresk workshops in English during a two-days long event.ย