The youth camp taught green skills and gave the courage to dream big
Mid-August Brought Wonderful Young People to Lake Võrtsjärv In mid-August, a group of wonderful young people gathered by Lake Võrtsjärv — students from UNESCO Associated Schools and the Eco-Schools Programme who had just completed 7th or 8th grade in the spring. The environmental camp, held from August 18–20, was at once an adventure, an active […]
24. okt 2025
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Community cooperation for rivers and coasts (CoCoRiCo)
Project objective: to build a citizen-science community by fostering collaboration among NGO activists (BEF-Latvia), youth (Pärnu-Salacgriva; Valga-Valka schools), educators (TEEC, teachers), and researchers (LHEI) in Latvia and Estonia, focusing on water protection, plastic pollution reduction, and biodiversity conservation through citizen science and educational activities. Diverse joint activities will take place in cross-border river basins (Salaca, […]
16. okt 2025
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The Big Game project
Project: The Big Game: Immersive and Multidisciplinary STEM Learning through A Cooperative Story-Driven Digital Game Duration: 1.12.2021 – 31.05.2024 Project is funded by: European Union Erasmus+ Programme Main objective: Promoting interest and excellence in STEM education through multidisciplinary learning and problem-solving related to environmental and climate change issues by providing an online and hybrid learning […]
5. veebr 2024
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COOLspot – Educational trail for citizens to explore and contribute to Climate Conscious Solutions in urban environments
Project: Educational trail for citizens to explore and contribute to Climate Conscious Solutions in urban environments Duration: 01.07.-31.12.2023 Project is funded by: Estonian EU external border programme 2014-2020. Project ER213 COOLspot is implemented under the European Neighbourhood Instrument and co-financed by the European Union. Project budget: 103 010 € (programme 92 709 €, Tartu Nature House […]
5. juuli 2023
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Empowering youth and teacher network of the Eco-Schools programme for the Sustainable Baltic Sea region (2020-2021)
Project: Empowering youth and teacher network of the Eco-Schools programme for the Sustainable Baltic Sea region. Duration: 01.10.2020 – 31.12.2021 Project is funded by: Nordic Council of Ministers Project budget: 78 229.79 eur Nature House budget: 15 243.82 eur Project coordinators: Getrin Laanesoo Partners: Lead partner Foundation for Environmental Education Latvia (FEE Latvia), copartner Tartu […]
12. veebr 2020
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GreenMind: Raising Environmental Awareness in Estonian-Russian Border Area (2019-2022)
/foto: www.facebook.com/estoniarussia/ More about the project GreenMind: Raising Environmental Awareness in Estonian-Russian Border Area Duration: August 2019 – January 2022 Partners: Lake Peipsi Project – lead partner (RUS) Псковский областной центр развития одаренных детей и юношества (RUS) Peipsi Center for Transboundary Cooperation (EST) Tartu Environmentl Education Center (EST) The project aims to contribute to increasing of public […]
29. okt 2019
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“Energy Saving Advice Across Borders” (Energy Advice) (2018-2020)
Project “Energy Saving Advice Across Borders” (Energy Advice) is based on a goal to create cross-border awareness raising campaigns on Energy saving benefits to promote in-depth understanding of energy saving and energy efficiency issues. The project objective will be achieved by organising technically creative workshops for Latvian and Estonian primary school pupils (6th-9th grade) and […]
22. okt 2019
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Green Public Events (2017-2018)
Raising awareness on saving resources and reducing waste at public events in Latvia and Estonia Total budget: 457 942.94 EUR ERDF contribution: 389 251.49 EUR The objective of this project was to raise awareness focusing on waste reduction and energy saving issues among active adults and youngsters, who attend public events by organization of interactive activities […]
12. sept 2019
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