“…The FFF mobilisations engaged high numbers of participants worldwide, transforming the regular Friday school strikes into a new wave of international protests, which were no longer tied to key events such as international summits (Neuber 2020). While there are a number of elements of continuity in the composition, action forms and motivations of climate activism (e.g., the predominance of protesters with a high level of formal education), according to the initial comparative studies on FFF, a number of novel characteristics stand out, such as the involvement of schoolchildren and students as initiators, organisers and participants in climate activism on a large scale (Wahlström et al 2019;de Moor et al 2020;Sommer et al 2019Sommer et al , 2020. Similarly, young activists have been found to be the core groups in territorial struggles, such as in the case of the No TAV movement in Northern Italy against the construction of the high-speed railway between Turin and Lyon (Piazza and Frazzetta 2018;della Porta and Piazza 2007), or in the occupation of the Hambach Forest in the North Rhine-Westphalia region against the destruction of the forest by an opencast coal mine (Ruser 2020, 812;Kaufer and Lein 2018, 4).…”