Baltic Sea Project

  The UNESCO Baltic Sea Project's WebQuiz 2020 has ended and the results are in!  This year's BSP WebQuiz has set an all-time record - there were three times as many participants as last year. A total of 3,748 students from 8 countries around the Baltic Sea participated in the quiz, in addition also 14 sea enthusiasts and teachers tested their knowledge. The largest number of participants was from Estonian schools - 2,811 students and teachers. The second largest participant was Russia (382 participants), followed by Latvia (230 participants), Lithuania (127), Finland (124), Poland (64), Germany (20) and Denmark (4). Only one Baltic Sea Project country was left out this time - Sweden. This year, the WebQuiz was held for the first time in three age groups, it was the most popular among 14-16 year olds (1671 students), then the 10-13 year old age group (1154 students) and finally among 17-19 year olds (923 students). The prizes for the 2020 WebQuiz are a variety of Fair trade and

In November 2020 lyceum 179 in Saint Petersburg held a big regional conference with international participation "High school students’ club as a means of forming students' ecological thinking." All in all there were 4 sections and one of them was international and called “Monitoring the environment around the Baltic Sea within BSP framework”. The participants - students from lyceum 179 and its partner school Tallinn Mustamäe Real Gymnasium shared their projects and exchange ideas with each other. The conference was in Zoom that gives the opportunity to invite excellent experts as the key speakers. The students were warmly welcomed by Stanislav Babitch national coordinator of the Baltic Sea Project of UNESCO ASPnet in Russia, professor of Saint Petersburg University of Economics, Tiina Sarisalmi UNESCO ASPnet schools’ coordinator in Finland, eTwinning ambassador and Gedy Matisen national coordinator of the Baltic Sea Project of UNESCO ASPnet in Estonia, Tartu Nature House

This summer BSP in Estonia organized an exciting environmental education sailing trip for Estonian students and some of their teachers. One of the purposes of this adventure was to celebrate the Baltic Sea Day 2020 accordingly - at sea observing, researching and feeling it's biodiversity. The trip was also a national prize of the Baltic Sea WebQuiz 2019 and so the best of the Estonian quiz participants where given a chance to come on a sailing learning trip. The sailing trip crews consisted of 25 participants (4 teachers from 3 different schools and 21 students from 13 different schools across Estonia) and 4 sailing ships with their professional crews. Together they set out on 25th of August heading for the Finnish archipelago southwest of Helsinki, crossing the Gulf of Finland twice in four days and stopping at various small ports in the archipelago. The aim of the sailing trip was to provide participants with practical knowledge and skills about sailing and researching the state