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Volunteers in YEE
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Homepage section on the project Environmental Audit
1) Project description
- Description (Development, aim, duration)
- Participating Organisation
2) Training Course
3) Local Actions
4) Evaluation Meeting
5) Download EMS Publications
6) Financial Support
The training course took place in Bělá u Jevíčka, Czech Republic, from September 16th to 22nd 2010 and involved 11 participants. During this training course Environmental Management Systems (EMSs) were made accessible to youth active in European NGOs. Participants shared and exchanged knowledge about environmental problems in their home countries and learned about related legislation. They specified criteria and gained skills that can be applied as part of EMSs in youth NGOs and their networks in order to measure the impact of their activities on the environment. Different methods based on non-formal and experiential learning, such as inter-active presentations, workshops, discussions, etc. were applied during the project.
During the training course we discovered that environmental audits are in fact just part of a more comprehensive approach - environmental management. We discovered a new serious side to environmentalism, a system that deals with causes and consequences of our actions regarding the environment. |
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The project "Environmental Audit" has been funded with the support from
the 'Europe for citizens' Programme of the European Commission.
We would also like to thank for the generous financial support of
Deutscher Jugendbund für Naturbeobachtung.
By publishing a brochure on environmental management systems we endeavour to reach all those who would like to improve the performance of their work and activities, and not only by improving the quality of their work and the economy of production, but also by minimising the environmental consequences, too. It's not a guide that will show you the one correct way forward. Instead, it is an introduction to the complex world of environmental management with its language, legislative framework, PDCA cycles and so on. We aim in particular to encourage small and medium-sized enterprises from different regions of Europe to implement some kind of environmental management system: to become greener, safer, and indeed to profit from that in terms of economy, publicity, employees' satisfaction or even just the feel good factor which comes from doing something good for the environment.
We hope you enjoy reading our brochure and finish it feeling enriched!
Download PDF version of EMS Publication in following languages:
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Guidelines on the best environmental practices in NGOs:
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The evaluation meeting took place in Prague, Czech Republic, from March 1st to 5th 2011 and involved 16 participants.All together, we analyzed the positive and negative aspects and outcomes of the local actions.
During this evaluation meeting participants exchanged their experiences presenting the actions they carried out during the past five months in their home countries. Concrete best practices were elaborated and discussed. The procedure of environmental audits – eponymous for the project and substantial for analysing the functioning of an established environmental management system – was explored and applied in interviews about the local activities. Another focus was laid on the further development of distribution strategies for the released publication on environmental management systems and a follow-up of the local actions.
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According to their personal action plans, participants organised the following actions in their home countries:
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Albania |
On 10 December 2010 was held the annual meeting of the environmental NGOs of Albania. for this occasion we prepared a poster with a general information about ISO 14001 and eco mapping, showing a concrete example of what it is eco mapping, so that of EDEN's office. In this meeting were approximately 25 representatives of the NGOs. The meeting lasted all the day, and during that time we explained the content of the poster to the interested people.
On 25 January 2011 we have organized an informative meeting for EMS, ISO 14001, EMAS, ecompaping with the student of environment biology at the Faculty of Natural Science, and they were interested to know more for that. Approximately 15 students.
On 17 February 2011 an electronic publication at an environment newspaper Mjedisi Sot, with a general information of EMS and of what we have done till that moment. Link: http://www.mjedisisot.info/index.asp?idd=11288&id=145&lloji=dok.
On 17 February 2011 an electronic publication at EDEN web page. Link: http://www.eden-al.org/index.php?id=229.
On 17 February 2011 we have sent informative emails about EMS, ISO 14001, eco mapping to different companies, organizations. approximately we have found 60 emails contacts
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Czech Republic |
On November 16th 2010 a workshop on "Ecomapping and basics of Environmental Management Systems", was organized by Youth and Environment Europe (YEE) in Ecological Centre Toulcův Dvůr in Prague. The workshop was aimed to Czech environmental NGOs and its main goal was to raise awareness on the EMS and the Ecomapping method as a new modern approach how to recognize significant environmental aspects of the organisation. The afternoon workshop consisted of theoretical and practical part – presentation of EMS and ecomapping selected part of Toulcův Dvůr ecocentre.
In March 2011, after the Evaluation Meeting, the YEE office team did the ecomapping of the office and on its bases established an action plan how to improve environmental performance of the office. The aim of this activity was not only to train the ecomapping method, but also benefit from the knowledge we got during the training course and the evaluaiton meeting in our everyday life.
In May 2011 we do the ecomapping of the festival area in Hradec Kralove.
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Germany |
On February 16th 2011 an information event on "Environmental Management Systems", was jointly organized by Youth and Environment Europe (YEE), Peter Fischer Managementberatung and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Berlin (IHK Berlin). Five speakers presented the input and benefits of Environmental Management Systems. Approximately 30 participants from 24 companies including renowned ones such as Vattenfall, Linde AG and REMONDIS GmbH & Co KG attended the event in Berlin.
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Macedonia |
In February 2011 informative meetings with top management of three medium sized manufacturing companies on regional level, municipality of Valandovo and municipality of Strumica were organized. The goal of the meetings was introducing EMS and ISO14001 to business community. Also a brief presentation of Eco Mapping as a useful tool that could help implementation of EMS and ISO14001 was held. Two of the companies showed interest for future collaboration.
In May 2011 the Ecomapping of one of the contacted companies is planned to be done.
Apart from YEE the following organisations were involved in the project:
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Environmental Center for Development, Education and Networking (EDEN Center) Albania |
Konopa, o. s. Czech Republic |
Three years ago, as it celebrated its 25th anniversary, Youth and Environment Europe (YEE) identified the need to carefully investigate the impact of its own activities on the environment. YEE is not involved in harmful production or activities and its members are dedicated to environmental protection, conservation and sustainable development, but we observed that our international projects have a serious impact on the environment, due to all the papers printed, food eaten, energy used and plane flights taken. We therefore wanted to get a clear view of how we perform our activities and how we could improve them so as to lessen their negative environmental impact. From the beginning we were devoted to spreading the knowledge that we ourselves gained to our local community informing organisations, companies and authorities about environmental best practices and environmental management.
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