Baltic Sea Project

From observations to citizen science “Observational data collected by crowdsourcing are called citizen observations. They are observations made on the observer's own initiative and on a voluntary basis on various topics observable in the environment and they have been submitted for common use. Observations can be made either on an individual citizen’s own initiative or they can be activities jointly agreed by different associations or groups…  Various targets and environmental monitoring applications can also be agreed to be used for observation. In that case, crowdsourcing and voluntary work may also be extended to ensure a sufficient number of observations to verify the accuracy of the observations or to summarize the observations. When also ordinary citizens are involved in asking research questions and drawing conclusions from summaries of findings, it can be called citizen science. Citizens’ observations are a part of citizen science.” ( https://www.ymparisto.fi/fi-FI/K...

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...

The UNESCO ASPnet Baltic Sea Project's WebQuiz 2019 is ready for students all over Baltic Sea region to participate! *The quiz is in English and meant for students from 13 to 19 years with good English skills. *Teachers may also take the quiz but should mark (*teacher) behind their name. *You need computer with headphones and video possibility, Inthernet, and some research skills to score in BSP WebQuiz 2019! *You have 60 minutes to answer 10 questions. *You can only take the test once because we will count your first entry. *The quiz can be found from here:   https://bit.ly/2PBXxgH *The quiz is open till 20.december. *The international prizes will be given out in January 2020. Some national prizes may also be pointed to some students. The quiz is organized by Tartu Nature House (Estonian BSP coordinator) and funded by the Estonian Ministry of Education and Research. Questions have been formed by different Baltic Sea Project teachers, coordinators and co-operation par...

The Lithuanian camp for participants of the Baltic Sea project was held on July 10 - 12. Therefore, the location of the port city Klaipėda and the Curonian Spit, was not chosen by accident. The camp began with a theoretical introduction to the values of protected areas , which was presented to us by Raimonda Ilgine, a junior researcher at Klaipėda University . Later we traveled to Karkle, where with amber fisherman Igor Osnach we learned how to distinguish real amber from artificial pieces, recognize inclusions, and just by looking at the sea, to tell if the waves would bring a lot of amber or not and to notice in which wave amber is hiding. On our way back we traveled five kilometers by foot, on our way to visit Holland's Cap, a WWII bunker, and of course looking for amber thrown down the coast. On the second day,  we visited the protected areas  that we discussed previously. We traveled through the Curonian spit national park cross-section. We visited the seacoas...