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October

On the 18th of October our association conducted a joint work re-establishing rapid torrents in the river Gauja. We did this by putting large stones in the river, therefore giving the river more oxygen. We also had a great participation from local community, which seems to establish a culture of taking care of their local river, therefore making them more aware of environmental issues in general.

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On Saturday 18th of October Hnutí Brontosaurus, YEE member organisation, opened a new audiopath in Prague. The 8 kilometers long educational path connects 6 memorable trees in Prague 12 and shows visitors the history of the trees and their habitat. The specialty of the path is the audio format of information - visitors can listen to it with their smartphones through QR code. This article will summarize what was needed to do to develop the path and give you a few tips to create your own audiopath if the topic made you interested.

1. The topic
Very important thing is to have a topic important enough to make the effort and interesting enough to attract visitors. Volunteers from Hnutí Brontosaurus realised that in Prague there are many memorable trees (old or important trees protected by law) which even people living in neighbourhood do not know about. We felt the urgency to show people these giants who are witnesses of past and let them know how important trees are for nature as well as for humankind.

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Our member organisation BALTA DABA is sharing the news about the projects and events they have been working on in September and upcoming events for October.

During September we continued our local initiative project in Valmiera, conducting a joint work to gather trash along riverside of the river Gauja. We've already done this last spring (5 months earlier) and we came back to the same shore. We managed to gather a lot of trash along riverside and realised that people are still not environmentally-friendly and during the summer, they have left a lot of trash. We did this in cooperation with Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences students and our members. Afterwards we tried to raise awareness through media and social media.

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In August, during the Annual Meeting of YEE which took place in Latvia, OPE (Portugal) changed their membership status from the associate member to the full member of the network.

The Ecoclubes had their National Meeting between the 28th of August and the 1st of September in Braga. The organisers were two local ecoclubes, from their network - EcoMoinhos and EcoVeiga - with a strong support of public institutions, parish, city council and diverse local entities, and once again, it was a moment of learning, fun and sharing.

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The Hungarian youth organization, Club of Young Naturalists organised its usual research camp for young people this summer again. This is a wildcamp, which provides a great opportunity for environmental education and introduction to field research for teens and young adults while they also do volunteering work by helping the local services in nature conservation.

At these occasion we spent a week in July next to a protected mireland in Őrség, Western Hungary. Due to the climatic features of our country, moors and similar biotopes are rare and endangered in Hungary.

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5 June 2014 marks the International Environment Day since 1973. This day was celebrated in EDEN Center by reopening the Ecological Center of Environmental Education "EDEN" near the Zoo Park in Tirana. The centre was built for the first time in the years 2007-2008 with the financial support of the American Embassy in Tirana and the ProCredit Bank. Because of the construction of "Tirana Outer Ring Road" of Tirana in 2011, this center was disassembled. It was revived thanks to the financial support of GEF (Global Environment Facility) Albania.

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The "Young Biologists Association" NGO initiated public-environmental campaign directed to promoting energy saving and introducing of clean technologies in Armenia.The goal of the initiative is to collect donations for setting up LED lamps in the houses of vulnerable people living in bordering communities.

The campaign will also be aimed to raise public awareness about advantages of LED lamps. The first LED community is planned to create at the Gomk village of Vayots Dzor province. Installing these lamps will contribute to costs reduction, energy saving and applying of ecological clean technologies.

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Association Argonauta was founded in 2005. It is based in town Murter, the Island of Murter (Croatia).

Our strategic direction goals in period 2014-2016 are:

-Conservation of natural, environmental and cultural heritage;

-Encouragement of civil activism and multi-stakeholder cooperation with the aim of improving the quality of life;

-Social entrepreneurship.

Trough activities that encourage civic engagement Argonauta plans in next three year period to continue the work on activism in the community by organising and taking part in international youth exchanges and hosting/sending volunteers through European Voluntary Service etc.

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The European Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW) was held for the first time in the Republic of Moldova from 23 to 29 June. The motto of the week was: "A small step on your part, a big step to Europe", which reflected the main purpose of the event – to promote successful projects on renewable energy and energy efficiency for the benefit of conservation and sustainable climate and energy in Europe.

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This is the story of an inspiring journey that took place last May in Valeri, a tiny rural village located in Asturias in the north of Spain. Biodiversa, a non-profit grassroots environmental NGO based in Spain, organised a week-long training course whose aim was to bring together youngsters who are currently living in a rural area with those who are willing to move to the countryside but are lacking the knowledge, information, motivation or drive.

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From April 27 to May 4 the international youth program "Open your eyes" was held and was attended by 28 young people aged between 16 and 30, from Armenia, Latvia, Georgia, Poland, Ukraine, Moldova, Romania and Germany. The project has been implemented by the youth ecological NGO Yeghvard in cooperation with the NGO Federation of Youth Clubs of Armenia (FYCA) and the public environmental information Yeghvard Aarhus center. The activity was included in the framework of the Youth in Action programme of the European Union.

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