International education program SPARE in Ukraine started in 2001. The national coordinator is eco club ’Eremurus’. The club is working with environmental education and nature protection since 1982 and has been a coordinator of SPARE project in Uzbekistan in 2000.
Economical and energy problems are very urgent, since the main amounts of oil and gas are imported from neighboring countries. A significant portion of energy is obtained from coal, gas and oil. Around half of the energy produced in the country is nuclear energy. Alternative energy sources have a good perspective in Ukraine, which will contribute to reducing dependence of Ukraine from import, but will also have a financial aspect. These aims have been incorporated in The Ukrainian Law on alternative sources of energy, on February 20th 2003.
Main stages of SPARE realization in Ukraine
- Creating SPARE network and SPARE working group in Ukraine
- Attracting partner organizations to join the project
- Introducing Norwegian and Russian materials ‘Energy saving’ to the teachers
- Creating a collection of professional suggestions for developing Ukrainian materials for practical solutions regarding economical use of energy
- Organizing working meetings and seminars in SPARE
- Coordination and support
- Organizing children’s competition on ‘Energy saving’ topic
- Creating and distributing SPARE information materials
- Developing, publishing and distributing first version of Ukrainian materials ‘Energy saving’
- Developing and distributing additional SPARE materials on CDs
- Organizing meeting of minister of environment of Norway with pupils from one model SPARE schools in Kiev
- Creating and distributing a video on Norwegian minister visit
- Organizing seminars for teachers on practical use of ‘Energy saving’ materials
- Publishing informational-methodical SPARE herald for teachers
- Organizing All-Ukrainian competition for teachers, for the best methodological work on ‘Energy saving’
Participants and partners
Ukrainian Ministry of education and science supports SPARE project in Ukraine, while public and state organizations actively participate in its realization.
SPARE participants are 28 institutes of postgraduate education, schools and public organizations from 30 areas of Ukraine.
