Baltic Sea Project

The Baltic Sea web quizz for 2019 is now closed. Thank you all for participating! We had over 1250 participants from 8 different countries (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Germany, Denmark, Finland and Russia). We will announce the winners and give out prizes in January 2020! Stay tuned!

Dear friends, Have a wonderful Christmas time among your loved ones! This year we invite all of you to take a look at your Christmas tree and determine the age of needles on the branch. Use this air quality programme instruction (page 7):  http://www.b-s-p.org/upload/programme/air/selection.pdf Also, think where the tree has grown and what impact has it made during it's lifetime. How could we use 100% of Christmas trees after a nice stay at our home during holidays? Perhaps you also wonder about the weather...where is all the snow? You may add your comments to our Fecabook page:  https://www.facebook.com/unesco.bsp/ -The Estonian team of BSP - 

What are climate policy and circular economy? Is it possible to achieve zero waste production and consumption? What are the main sustainable challenges present today in Estonia? How to create fairness with trade? Above all, who is responsible for answering the above-mentioned questions?  These were some of the relevant issues that experts, students and their teachers discussed on December 6, 2019, in Tallinn Botanic Garden on the seminar „From production to waste: How to make consumption fair?” organized by NGO Mondo within the Environmental Investment Center (KIK) project led by Tartu Environmental Education Center. Other supporters were Erasmus+ and Estonian Ministry of Education and Research.  The seminar was opened by Urve Sinijärv from Tallinn Botanic Garden, followed by the UNESCO ASP Network coordinator, Viktoria Rudenko, and the Baltic Sea Project’s coordinator, Gedy Matisen, who presented their current projects and invited students to join their activities (i...

"Projects and studies – implementation of the environmental component of education for sustainable development" The next article is written b y Jelisaveta Dzigurski -  she is a Serbian volunteer in Tartu Nature House (Estonia) within the European Solidarity Corps which is the new European Union initiative that creates opportunities for young people to volunteer or work in projects in their own country or abroad that benefit communities and people around Europe. On November 29th 2019, Lyceum 179 from Saint Petersburg held a regional conference with  international participation “Projects and studies – implementation of the environmental  component of education for sustainable development.” The main aim of the conference was to promote schools who are actively working on popularization of environmental education and teaching about sustainable development. Students had the opportunity to present their experience of instrumental environmental research to the various ...