Our Team
The climate camp is planned and organized in a long-term organizational process based on group dynamics and knowledge transfer. We try to specifically address new target groups and give great importance to interdisciplinarity, diversity and emancipation.
We are currently around 15-20, mostly young, people, most of us studying or working alongside the organization of the climate camp. We are active in groups like SystemChangeNotClimateChange, Ende Gelände, forest occupations and other initiatives for a good and climate-just life. Some of us have been involved in the climate justice movement for years and some of us are politically active for the first time.
Within the organizational structures we have built, we experiment a lot with different forms and processes of self-organization and try to recognize, develop and share our personal skills.
We see the whole project as a huge learning process for everyone involved, whether they are new to the movement or have been active for a long time.
In addition to the contribution that the camp itself makes to the climate justice movement in various ways, we also see the joint planning process as a valuable part of a political movement, as we create the space for new people to gain access to methods of emancipatory and non-hierarchical self-organization and to find a low-threshold entry into the climate justice movement.
We regularly organize introductory onboarding workshops to meet people where they are at, to share previous experience and to show options on how people with different perspectives and realities of life can participate in the organization.
Some of us put 1 hour a week into the project, some 1 day, some do little else in the weeks leading up to the camp. All contributions are important and valuable. However, one of our biggest challenges is not to let knowledge and target hierarchies, our otherwise flat organization, become a problem.
Sometimes this is challenging, but it is definitely very rewarding.
We are organized into working groups such as e.g.
- Infrastructure
- Program
- Communication
- Finances
- Awareness
There is also a process team that is responsible for the overall process and overview. We meet at regular intervals and make consensual decisions.