The project “Youth to youth about environment” is implemented with the support of The Administration of Latvian Environmental Protection Fund. The aim of the project:to implement activities in an educational and creative way that would strengthen the connection of Latvia's youth (both general education pupils and students of vocational schools and universities) with nature, linking the understanding of natural values in specially protected nature territories in Latvia with the protection of the diversity of nature and a modern vision of solutions to environmental problems.
Project period: April 20 – October 1, 2018.
Total budget: EUR 7340,64.
Main activities:
- Creation of video about the educational campaign "The Man in the Environment"
- Creation of a video about the project " Youth to youth about environment ";
- An interactive event "Back in the Stone Age" and a bicycle expedition in nature “"Climate change in nature – then and now" (surroundings of Lake Lubāns, Lubana region - May 2018);
- Educational and creative event in nature "Waste as a resource" (in the Līču-Laņģu cliffs and Lielajā Ellītē, Priekuli region - September 2018);
- Educational and creative event in nature "Waste as a resource" (Engures Nature Park, Engure Region - September 2018);
- Cognitive event in nature "Nature diversity and landscapes" (in the valley of the Pededze River, surroundings of Litene - May 2018);
- Cognitive event in nature "Nature diversity and landscapes" (in Gauja National Park - September 2018);
- A research about young people's environmental awareness.
More information on the project: HESPI director and senior researcher Agita Līviņa ([email protected])