Welcome to Climate Detectives Expert Dashboard!

Here you can find the projects that we would need your feedback

Climate Detectives (investigation category)

Team: Tuur and Alexander

Belgium 16 years old, 17 years old   1, 1 / 0

Project title:

Climate anxiety in Belgian youth

Research question

How is Belgian youth coping with climate change?

Identify the local environmental/climate problem you want to investigate

Young people experience stress due to climate crisis. Weather also affects people’s mood. Our study examines the effects of weather and of climate change on wellbeing of youth. More precisely, we studied how climate anxiety affects the wellbeing of 12- to 18-year-old students of our school College Hagelstein in Belgium.

Project topic

Climate change

Describe how you plan to investigate the problem identified and which data you plan to analyse.

Your feedback

Expert feedback Phase 1 - 2023-2024
Is the suggested problem a problem that the students can actually investigate? Is it feasible, realistic? Please explain why or why not. Is the relation with climate/local environment worked out? Where necessary indicate the wider scientific context to which the identified problem belongs.