Baltic Sea Project

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 ...

It’s mid-June and the second week Finnish students and teachers are enjoying their well-earned summer holidays. Already we have had a heat wave and powerful thunders more typical for July and August than late spring and early summer. Once again, we have experienced  the extreme weathers climate change brings about. If you, as a teacher or student, are interested in nature, climate change and the protection of Baltic Sea , there are several summer and autumn camps dealing with these issues. What’s better than wandering on the beautiful Baltic coasts with same minded people and, at the same time, learn about nature, explore, study and make observations. You can also try and find ways to act and make a change . You can find more information about the camps and events on the calendar page . In the future, we hope to see lots of posts about the different projects, events, camps and conferences in this blog. The projects can be carried out in one school or by one class only o...