Within the ENV.net sub-grant “Primary Waste Selection in Kindergartens“, the Centre for Ecology and Energy (CEE) from Tuzla organized educational workshops for children in 10 kindergartens in Tuzla. The Project team prepared interesting presentation for children about primary waste selection, which were adapted to their age (children 5-7 years). Educational leaflets were also prepared and distributed to children and their teachers during the workshops.
After these presentation, the CEE purchased bins for the primary waste selection, blue for paper and yellow for plastic, for all 10 kindergartens. From now on about 1000 kids and 100 employees will be able to separate secondary raw materials which will be transferred for further processing. On this way, the process of proper and sustainable waste management according to the EU standards was initiated, and the greater social responsibility was achieved. It is known that the youngest citizens of Tuzla are making the great steps in this direction.
In cooperation with the kindergarten teachers, the competition between kindergartens will be organized. The competition is about decorating interior in the way that will promote the primary waste selection process. This competition will serve as additional motivation for children to understand the importance of the proper waste management for the human health and environment preservation. The main aim is to make awareness on children to adopt a better behaviour towards environment that will use in schools and in life, and to transfer acquainted knowledge to their families, neighbours and friends.
The first photo of the week is from Diyarbakır Bismil. This photo is from TEMA Bismil County Volunteers. Here the TEMA volunteers are participating on publication event in Bismil.
Second photograph is from Giresun. Here we see Young TEMA and Giresun City Volunteers giving a class of students their new TEMA volunteer ID cards.
The last photographs of the week are from Edirne. Probably the happiest child in the world is the one who can run bare feet on soil and who can touch soil without fear of getting dirty. These photos are from grounding event. This week we have two photos from Edirne.
The first e-learning course “Social media, activism and participation”, developed in the framework of the ENV.net project, ended on the 17th of June.
See what partipants said about their e-learning experience:
About the course contents
“I enjoyed from the course but I knew a lot of information about main social networks, these parts were boring for me, however they are very useful and clear for people who starts to manage social networks accounts”
“The content was satisfactory for me as a basic social media user”
“Good explanations, good and clear slides”
“The content very good, good structured, logical flow of sessions. Sometimes it was a little bit heavy as some of the tools where totally unknown for me so I needed much more attention but it was useful”
“Content of the course was very comprehensive and educational”
“The content is well chosen, all important social networks are covered and other very useful tools were presented, which I haven’t heard of before”
About the relation course/daily work
“Actually social networks are real parts of our lives in new age, so this course helps to build better relationships with others. We can reach a big community via social networks. It helps to our business and social relationships. We can also feel other supports via social networks”
“The course is very flexible and it did not interfere with my daily work. So thanks guys ;)”
“It was very well organized on having one module per day, no time consuming and right to the point”
“I mostly have followed the course outside working hours and not constantly but in two long blocks. There could be more reminders (or maybe an automatic personal reminder tool) to schedule daily course timing”
“I thought that it will take to me more time, but it is very good manageable as you have a period of days and you can choose when to have the online course, to stop – start again. so good”
“It completely relates to my daily work, and I learned many new things that could improve my work and make it more efficient and effective”
About the ENV.net e-learning platform
“It was really easy to use and fast. Everything was okay”
“It can be improved by new and modern design. The platform looks very old style, but actually the system is awesome! Thank you for everything”
“I find the ENV.net e-learning platform very easy. It would be nice to have an extra button to control the speed of the lecturer’s voice”
“Very easy to use, and quite fast to catch the best way the message of the course”
“It is very easy to use. Maybe could be a little bit more attractive to share contents and interact among participants. Thank you for this wonderful training!”
“It is user friendly and not much time-consuming”
“I personally found it bit slower than preferred, but it’s always better if you have the opportunity to speed up instead of pausing it or constantly rewinding the videos”
A new course started on the 18th of June with 50 participants! The enrollment process is now closed but you can attend the next courses starting from August 2014. See latest news on ENV.net e-learning courses here.
“Eco-package” education activity how to creatively use TetraPak used packaging material, after 10 months is finalized in Serbia, with awarded ceremony for the participants (Eco-Schools from all over the Serbia). EASD is sharing some creations.
Ten creative works has been selected to the final selection of works from the call “Face to face with my environment” that was organized by the Macedonian ENV.net sub-grantee Centre for media activities (CMA) from Skopje.
The participants to this call created posters and photos that are now published on Lice v lice’s fb page and the audience is voting via “liking” their favourite work.
The voting is closing on 25th of June and all the selected works are on this link.
Members of the jury that selected these works are: the professional photographer – Tomislav Georgiev, the artist Tanja Balac and the director of the Platform for self realization and sustainable ways of life Elizabeta Zijlstra Jovanovska.
One of the awards for the winner is a bycicle which is going to be provided by the national partner of ENV.NET for Macedonia – the organization “4x4x4 Balcan Bridges”.
Becide the prizes, the best tree works will be part of an exhibition that is going to be held in July, at the promotion of the new, 11. edition of the street paper “Lice v lice”. There is also going to be a selection of works that will be published in this edition.
CMA, the organization that runs the platform of activism and that is issuing the street paper “Lice v lice” organized one more call on this subject – “Face to face with my environment” – Report a problem in your environment.
The citizens, the organizations and the public in general reacted to this call, sending their complains about problems in their surroundings, concerning the environment. We received a number of problems that a journalist, member of the team of “Lice v lice” is going to develop in a in debt text that is going to be part of this edition of the magazine, also.
End of May and beginning of June ENV.net organized two separate meetings with 2 organizations which have been awarded subgrants in the framework of ENV.net call for proposals:” Development of the ENV.net in West Balkan and Turkey: giving citizens a voice to influence the environmental process reforms for closer EU integration”.
Organizations and funded projects are:
First Organization: NGO-Doğa Kültür ve Yaşam Derneği-Legendary Pallid Scoops Owl (Bilecik-Urfa)
On 29th of May 2014 Pınar Gündoğdu from Doğa Kültür ve Yaşam Derneği which is located in Urfa came to visit ENV.net partners in Istanbul. After a brief introduction from ENV.net team on ENV.net Project, Pınar Gündoğdu made a presentation on their project and on their organization.
The Project is about Legendary Pallid Scoops Owl which can only be found only in Birecik region in Europe.
Second Organization: NGO-Eğitim ve Çevre Gönüllüleri Derneği-“Beautiful City, Clean Sea Van (Yeşil Bir Şehir, Temiz Bir Deniz Van)” (Van)
On 11th of June our second Sub-grant winner organization from Van made a visit to Istanbul to explain their project and to sign the contract with the ENV.net. Their project named “Beautiful City, Clean Sea Van (Yeşil Bir Şehir, Temiz Bir Deniz Van)” draws get attention to Walnut Trees in Van. Aim of the project is to raise awareness in Van, hometown of walnut trees in Anatolia, through plantation efforts of school children.
Garip Kızılkaya made a brief presentation on their plans and expectations within the project. After his presentation, ENV.net team gave him information about the procedures and forms to be used in the process of implementation and reporting. After this information section, the contract was signed.
Every year, millions of tones of litter end up in oceans, beaches, forests and elsewhere in nature. The primary causes are our societies’ unsustainable production and consumption patterns, poor waste management strategies and the lack of awareness of the population.
In order to reduce littering in nature and to give visibility to the issue, the EWWR (European Week for Waste Reduction) coordinated a Europe-wide annual clean-up day on 10th of May.
Several clean-up campaigns have been implemented in Europe over the past years to tackle the litter problem. The European Clean-Up Day, “Let’s Clean Up Europe!” intends to bring these initiatives together to have a Europe-wide clean-up event that takes place on the same day all over the continent; involving and reaching as many citizens as possible.
The purpose of this activity in Turkey and worldwide ;
From local level to mobilize volunteers to collect rubbish
Contribute solid waste
To raise awareness about environmental issues in the community.
And last but not least protect the environment.
Within the ENV.net project, along with its partners, TEMA Foundation also participated in this event with the support of its volunteers from around Turkey. In nine different cities TEMA Foundation’s volunteers took an action to clean their areas. Despite the bad weather conditions in one of the cities, activities were performed in all attended cities. It was a huge event with large participation from local residents and local communities.
In total 461 participants from Balıkesir, Çanakkale, Edirne, Kayseri, Mersin, Esenyurt-İstanbul, Silivri-İstanbul, Kocaeli, İzmir and Riva-İstanbul attended this event.
Last week on 11th and 12th June, ENV.net staff organised the training session “Environment in the European Union: Funding Mechanisms and Policy Processes“, in Prishtina, Kosovo.
The main objective of the course was to provide a general understanding of the necessary steps to be successful in getting funds from the EU and enable participants to actively participate in call for proposals launched by the European Commission and the EU Delegations for projects to be implemented in Kosovo or abroad. The course aimed also at supporting Kosovar CSOs to familiarize with selected EU environmental policy areas, highlighting possibilities to be better informed and involved and seek ways how they can contribute to the national and EU policy making. In particular, the course focused on: the EU programming process, the calls for proposals system, EU environmental acquis and the ways CSOs from Kosovo can be involved to the ‘approximation’ process.
More than twenty people participated with great interest to the course.
A guest speaker from REC was also invited to present lessons learnt from the Regional Environmental Center in Kosovo on approximation process and Aarhus Convention.
Some group works were also organised with great outputs from participants.
The first photograph is from Edirne-Kapaklı City Volunteer Representatives. Here we see TEMA Kids while beautifying their schoolyard.
Second photograph is from Mardin. Here are TEMA Kids with the view from Mardin city and they throw themselves in the arms of green fields. With the view from Mardin city they committed their dreams to the blue sky.
The last photograph of the week is from Çanakkale On Sekiz Mart University Young TEMA organization. Here are Young TEMA’s after Natural Hero’s education program. This Photograph shows young TEMA’s after the education program which supported under Step by Step Formation. They smile with their certificates to the camera.
In the past two weeks ENV.net sub-grantee EU Planetum from the Republic of Macedonia has organized creative workshops with students for reusing waste. Six workshops were held, attended by 28 students from the high agricultural school. Some waste materials were provided by students.
9 sculptures and 25 flowerpots were made.
Аs waste material were used wood, plastic, cans, rubber boots, used CD etc.
Students showed great interest, motivation and creativity of the workshops.
See more info about this activity in the Center for Media Activity website (click here)
