SCHOOL PROJECT ON APPLICATION OF RESOURSES AND ENERGY

More than 100 participants took part in the SPARE seminar which took place on 5th Dec in Varna, Bulgaria. The seminar was organized specifically for the schools of Eastern Bulgaria due to the huge interest for the program.

National meeting of the school eco-clubs took place in Sofia on Nov 25th. Representatives from over 30 school environmental clubs were present – from the capital Sofia and from the rest of the country. The SPARE project was presented and materials were handed to the young environmental activists.

The SPARE program started very promising in Sofia. It was met with interest and curiosity by the teachers who were enrolled in the project in Bulgaria. The first SPARE seminar took place in Sofia on 21st Nov. More than 80 teachers from the entire country took part in the training.

Representatives of several organizations active in SPARE are present in Copenhagen. The main task of the organizations is to influence on their national delegations policies and positions in the negotiations, and to bring information back to their home countries on the negotiations.

29 of October Friends of the Baltic NGO have organized Festival of Youth Environmental Projects and Initiatives, where SPARE schoolchildren presented their creativity works on climate change, energy and resource saving. Festival was supported by Committee for Youth Policy and Public Organizations of St.Petersburg Government, Norwegian Society for Conservation of Nature, and Municipality “Sennoy Okrug”.

We invite you to join the SPARE international energy saving day on the 11th of November 2009.

Saving energy is important for improvement of local and global environment. Nobody can do everything, but if everybody does something, we can achieve a lot together! In order to increase attention for the importance of energy saving, SPARE arranges an international energy saving day. Schools and pupils from many countries will participate, and we invite also your school to join!

October 20 Ministry of Education of Bulgaria has issued an official letter, expressed Minstry support for international SPARE project, where Bulgaria is rightful participant. Ministry conciders, that introduction SPARE to eschool education in Bulgaria will help to increase knowledges and practical sckills on the climate change, sustainable energy, energy efficiency and renewable energy.

In Barda, a city 300 km from Baku there was held a practical seminar on the topic «Using solar barrel in local condition», in framework of the international school project of SPARE. The seminar organized by the Azerbaijan Youth Union (AYU) at school № 8. Leader of the seminar was Ilja Melikov, the coordinator of programs on power efficiency and renewed energy sources Ecological Movement "BIOM", Kyrgyzstan. Organizational support gave by local NGO "ARAN”, who has a wide experience in various areas.

Macedonia became member of SPARE in March 2006 and during the implementation of the projects “Energy efficient municipality” in the period between March 2006 and March 2009 the Spare educational programme was completed. Till March 2009 SPARE programme in Macedonia was implemented locally in three municipalities, Municipality of Jegunovce, Shuto Orizari and Gazi Baba. The experiences gathered indicate a future logistical step in improvement of the programme - an official ratification from the Ministry of Education and Science. The Bureau for Development of Education was consulted at the strategic workshop held on 7th November 2008. One of the activities indicated and agreed by the participants was organizing a SPARE conference.

Norges Naturvernforbund/Friends of the Earth Norway has for several years cooperated with NGO partners in EECCA region on education, practical projects and policy development around energy and climate issues. We have now got the possibility to invite most of our NGO cooperation partners to Oslo, and on the 3rd of June we use the opportunity to arrange a conference on energy and climate in the Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA-region).