Two new ENV.net courses are going to start tomorrow

    “Get funding from the European Union” The course provides an understanding of the EU funding and programming system with a brief presentation of the main EU Institutions involved in this process. It also presents the funding opportunities available for CSOs from Western Balkans and Turkey to implement their projects. Moreover this course focuses[…..]

Day of Action Against Coal- 17.10.2014

Turkey declared 2012 as the ‘Year of Coal’ and announced that by 2023, all coal reserves in Turkey will be used for electricity production. In November 2013, during the UN Warsaw Climate Change Conference COP 19, this brought Turkey ‘the Fossil of the Day Award’ from participating civil society organizations. CSOs justified the award stating[…..]

The ENV.net family’s history narrated by Co-PLAN

Are you interested in the ENV.net project “Development of ENV.net in West Balkan and Turkey: giving citizens a voice to influence the environmental process”? Would you like to be updated on the implementation phase of our project or be informed on the related environmental issues ? Take a look at this wonderful brochure! ENV.net_Brochure_Co-PLAN  

ATRC after the workshops in Kosovo

Yesterday, October 14th 2014, the Department for Agriculture and Forestry in Ferizaji Municipal in collaboration with the Kosovo Police and inspectorate of Forestry seized seven tractors with 23 cubic meters illegal woods. This action comes after the regional workshop organized from ATRC as part of Env.Net project with the municipalities of Ferizaj region, and after[…..]

Workshop in Podujeva on forest management – Advocacy Training and Resource Center (ATRC) – Kosovo

On 10 October, 2014, Advocacy Training and Resource Center (ATRC) in collaboration with Eco Vision in Podujeva Municipality, within the regional project Env.Net, organized a regional workshop on the theme “Forest management and measures dealing with the prevention of illegal logging.” Participants in the workshop were representatives from Podujevo Municipality, representatives from Basic Court of[…..]

Workshop in Ferizaj on Forest management – Advocacy Training and Resource Center (ATRC) – Kosovo

On October 9, 2014, Advocacy Training and Resource Center (ATRC) in collaboration with the NGO network “AVONET”, within the regional project ENV.Net, organized a regional workshop on the theme “Forest management and measures dealing with the prevention of illegal logging.” Participants in the workshop were officials from the Municipality of Ferizaj, Viti, Kacanike, and Elez[…..]

ENV.net sub-grantee in Montenegro

Association of Young Ecologists of Niksic implements the third phase of the project “Preserving and increasing the level of protection of water resources in accordance with the standards of sustainable development.” During the third phase of the project we have implemented the action of removing waste and weeds at the location around the estavelle Gornjepoljski[…..]

Culture Comes from Nature

European Mobility Week and the Car Free Day was celebrated in Istanbul on – of September as a collaboration of AFSGD (AFS Volunteers Association), TEMA Foundation and EMBARQ Turkey (Sustainable Transportation and Urban Development Association) under the Env.net project. In the first event (Sep, 21), over 80 people attended a Sustainable Life Seminar at Studio X,[…..]

Go green, be a part of guerilla team!

After the finalization of the 6 creative workshops for waste reusage where the participants were pupils from the high school Dimitar Vlahov, we have started with the organization and preparation of two workshops for young volunteers and adults. The first workshop was help on 26.8.2014. there were 5 young volunteers from the environmental association Planetum[…..]

News of The Week from TEMA 16.09.2014

All photos of this week from TEMA were taken during the Volunteer Coordination Meeting. First photo shows all 300 TEMA Volunteers from 65 cities, 130 towns and 40 universities that attended the meeting in Istanbul. Second photo is a selfie of Hayrettin Karaca, one of the founders of TEMA Foundation also known as ‘Soil Grandfather’ and TEMA volunteer Yiğit[…..]