Climate protection and climate-friendly lifestyle changes don´t happen by themselves. Especially their social and cultural dimensions continue to pose a major challenge for policymakers, administrators, and society in general. Activating educational programmes play an important role here in providing the knowledge base about what climate change is and what everyone can do about it. At the symposium “Tackling climate change”, climate work was brought to life in six thematic workshops, and ways of demonstrating the practical dimensions of climate knowledge were tested.