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 ...

On November 15-16, in Vilnius, Lithuania was held scientific students´ conference for GLOBE and Baltic Sea Project participants. During the opening ceremony, Giedra Gurevičiūtė Demereckienė and Amy Reichert from the US Embassy came to welcome the participants. Because Lithuania is very active in collecting phenology data, Lenka Kleger, Phenology Campaign Coordinator for Europe and Eurasia, also congratulated the conference participants by video call. To this conference came almost 100 participants from all Lithuania. Schools presented sent oral presentations and posters of their completed works. Participants presentations were evaluated by a judges - a group of experienced teachers consisting of Rasytė Gaidienė, Regina Talačkienė and Genutė Kuzmickienė. After all presentations and discussion of the first day, event continued by visiting the Museum of Zoology at Vilnius University. There, with the help of Dr. Grita Skujienė and PhD Viktorija Kuznecova, they learnt a lot about both the ...

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...

Dear all, The first international Global Citizenship Education camp is taking place from 27 to 29 May, 2020, in Koppelsberg (close to Plön) in northern Germany. Some of you might know this beautiful place from former conferences. Further information will be available soon. We will be happy to reply to your comments and questions, and are looking forward to hearing that you wish to be with us on this conference. Note that your delegations should consist of teachers AND students. :-) A bit of basic information on Global Citizenship Education is available here: http://www.borderregions.org/bspcoordinators/gced.pptx Martin

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 ...

Here is a link for a  site  with inspiration for SDG games. This project is originally started by a Danish athlete. If you click the SDG icons at the bottom of the site, you will find detailed descriptions of how to play a game with your students, add ressing the chosen SDG. This can be a fun and active icebreaker for a school project on sustainability and global citizenship.