Celebrating Baltic Sea Project's 30th birthday with an international camp

Co-operating through camps

Drone picture on the coastline of the Baltic Sea, done by Enn Narrusson.

You might wonder how Estonians celebrated the Baltic Sea Project's 30th birthday?

We orginized a BSP international environmental awareness camp in Roosta, Estonia (26.-29.09.2019) and invited guest from other countries as well. 

Here is a video done by the Polish delegation from Prywatna Szkoła Podstawowa Complex of Silesian International School (teacher Anna Stebel and students Wiktoria Stebel, Patrycja Makowska).

This year the BSP got 30 years old, thus this camp focused on the Baltic Sea Project history (creating a common exhibition), Baltic Sea research and getting to know the costal situation and islands in Roosta (trip to Osmussaare island, costal hike, BSP programmes, scientific workshops), our cultural differences and similarities (culture nights) and providing leisure activities (sauna, ball games, swimming, adventure course, African drums). The programme was full of different possibilities.

The programme also had a parallel teacher's seminar on world education (women's and children's rights) in co-operation with NGO Mondo in Estonia. We had participants from Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Ukraine, Slovenia, Japan and Russia. This means all the participants could see how to practically integrate education for sustainable development and global citizenship education (world education).

This event was funded by the Estonian Ministry of Education and Research, Environmental Investment Centre, Foreign Ministry and Europeal Schoolnet (Scientix). The event was organized by Tartu Environmental Education Centre (Gedy Matisen, Eeva Kirsipuu-Vadi) and NGO Mondo (Viktoria Rudenko, Mari Jõgiste).