Sunday, 8th March 2009 Bicycle rally for Şeyh su

Bicycle rally against road works at ‘Şeyh su (Sheikh’s water)’ or ‘1000 trees’ forest of the city of thessaloniki – video posted by bikerespect (best of): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5jY_3GFI1Q. Everything about the road works and the people involved @ (in Greek): http://forestsos.wordpress.com/

More videos on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrEU6krvhD0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Nf1jK1zenE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPekYd3L4sk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3zvBLur6GY&feature=related

Articles (in Greek):

Various Movements in Thessaloniki:

http://thesskinisis.wordpress.com/2009/03/05/ποδηλατοπορεία-και-πεζοπορεία-για-το/

GreenAttack: http://green-attack.blogspot.com/2009/03/blog-post.html

Ecogreens: http://ecogreensalonika.wordpress.com/2009/03/08/seixsou-podhlatoporeia/

Ecology – salonika: http://ecology-salonika.org/lib/?p=3258

Saturday, 21st February / Thessaloniki

SMSofYOUTH 2009 for environment

SMSofYOUTH 2009 for environment is a new initiative of the Hellenic Youth Council (known in Greece with the acronym ESYN). Playing with the words, SMS stands for Important Messages – Targets in Greek and this year is focused on environment and especially on recycling and water saving. The campaign is taking place almost every week in a different town of Greece and wants to bring together all youth from the local youth councils and all the grown ups from the public sector working in environmental sectors. Yesterday it was held in Thessaloniki!

Watch live: http://www.smsofyouth.gr/

Saturday, 7th February 2009 / Thessaloniki

A day for ‘Protected areas of Greek nature as an opportunity developing a new prototype – institutional requirements, social significance, economical prospects areas of high ecological value'. Mediterranean SOS Network (MedSOS) accepted the invitation and made a presentation on ‘MedSOS and the actions taken in protected areas’

My presentation SEE BELOW

or at: http://ecogreensnatura2000.blogspot.com/2009/02/med-sos-op-07022009.html

More about that day: http://ecogreensnatura2000.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean SOS Network: http://www.medsos.gr

Med Sos Op 07022009

Check out this SlideShare Presentation:

Med Sos Op 07022009

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Saturday, 15th November to Sunday, 23 rd November 2008 / Olympiada - Chalkidiki

“Balkanvision” - a training course on Intercultural Dialogue (Action 3 - Youth in the world / 3.1 - Cooperation with Neighbouring Partner Countries / Training and Networking / GR-31-38-2008-R3 & 3.1.2/R3/2008/7)

Participants

Ivana Vitovskiv & Matija Polančec / Croatia - Croatian Youth Hostel Association (info: http://www.hfhs.hr/)

Dejan Neshevski & Zoran Dimitrovski / F.Y.R.O.M. - Intercultural Dialogue Center (info: http://www.cid-mk.org/)

Irina Janevska & Nenad Velkovski / F.Y.R.O.M. (info: http://www.youthpeer.org.mk/)

Natalia Todorova Bojanova, Lora Liudmilova Georgieva & Viktoria Milenova Mihova / Bulgaria - International Initiatives for Cooperation (info: http://www.iic-bg.org/)
Jelena Cebic & Vildana Devic, Bosnia & Herzegovina - SPOT

Paunescu Beatrice-Roxana & Tomoescu Ion Alin / Romania - Youth of XXI-th Century

Aleksandar Banjanac / Serbia – Balkan IDEA Novi Sad

Marina Stojadinovic / Serbia - Young Researchers of Serbia (info: http://www.mis.org.yu/)

Olga Fylaktaki, Anestis Kariofilidis & Giorgos Koutsokostas / Greece – United Societies of Balkan (info: http://usbngo.wordpress.com/)

Trainers
Daniela lovric / Croatia - Youth Centre for non-formal education (info: http://www.cnc.hr/)
Jelena Mocevic / Bosnia & Herzegovina - SPOT

Nevena Gojkovic / Serbia - Ethnicity Research Center

United Societies of Balkan staff

Aristodimos Paraschou, Efi Simiakaki, Giorgos Lambrakis & Christina Kontaxi (info: http://usbngo.wordpress.com/)

more info: http://usbngo.wordpress.com/

Thursday, 30 October / EKBY - Thessaloniki

The announcement :

‘ In the frame of the three-year ‘Action plan on management issues of Natural Environment’ and more specifically in the frame of Action ‘Training Program’ of the Ministry of Environment, Planning & Public Works, the realization of which has been undertaken by the Greek Biotope / Wetland Centre (Goulandris Natural History Museum), the seminar ‘Environmental Licensing in Protected Areas’ was held on the 30th of October 2008 in the building of the Greek Biotope / Wetland Centre in Thessaloniki. The aim of the seminar is the briefing of executives of services of administration in subjects that concern the environmental licensing in protected areas, aiming at the formulation of in common criteria to encounter. Participants would be executives of administration of whom the work is related directly or indirectly with the environmental licensing. ’

The programme:

- Environmental Licensing in Natura 2000 areas /Stavroula Vanikioti, Management of Natural Environment Department - Ministry of Environment, Planning & Public Works

Specifications and processes for the approval of Environmental Impact Assessments & Estimation of impacts for tourism installations / Rebeka Mpatmanogloy, General Environmental Issues Department - Ministry of Environment, Planning & Public Works

Special Spatial Planning for Industry / Lena Karka, Spatial Planning Department - Ministry of Environment, Planning & Public Works

Estimate of impacts from hydroelectric dams / M. Koutrakis, Fisheries Research Institute - National Agricultural Research Foundation

Estimate of impacts in the environment from road works and compensatory measures & Protection of the wild fauna in the frame of manufacture and operation of road works / Thalia Valkoyma, EGNATIA ROAD S.A.

My question had to do with the SPA ‘DELTA AXIOU-LOUDIA-ALIAKMONA-ALYKI KITROUS’ that includes the wetland of Kalochori, a region in the Prefecture of Thessaloniki.

a) Stavroula Vanikioti said that the Ministry has sent the list of the Hellenic SPA’s to the European Union and that there will be an adoption of them as has already happened with the Commission’s Decision of 19 July 2006 adopting, pursuant to Council Directive 92/43/EEC, the list of sites of Community importance for the Mediterranean biogeographical region [Official Journal of the European Union L 259/1, 21.9.2006, pp.1–104]

b) As a reply to my saying that at this time the region is planned to be part of the General Town Planning both Rebeka Mpatmanogloy & Lena Karka said that this can happen.

After all it was just a training programme ... to formulate common criteria for the encounter of problems related to environmental licencing in protected areas ...
* more info: http://www.ekby.gr/ekby/el/EKBY_News_Announcements_el.html

Monday, 6 October to Wednesday, 8 October 2008, Bitola and surrounding areas / FYROM

Arrive late Monday evening to contribute in what was formally called: ‘LEARNING PARTNERSHIP – FROM REGION TO REGION – PART II’. A visit to the neighbouring country after an invitation from BIOSFERA BITOLA (info: http://www.biosfera.org.mk) and my friend Neshad.

My stay there had everything: small sightseeing in Bitola, Meeting with Emilia Dimitrovska, PR of the Municipality of Bitola (info: http://www.bitola.gov.mk), visit to Prespa and have lunch in Professor’s house, go along the west side of the big lake Prespa, visit St. Naum, visit the Ohrid region and lake, walk around Volvox and speak about many wonderful ideas for cooperation along with the German colleagues, Ludmila Wieczorek (http://www.loki-schmidt-stiftung.de/), Heike Markus Michalczyk (http://www.naturundumwelt.info/) and Silvia Schubert (www.anu-hamburg.de/).

The call is open for cooperation!

The photos are a courtesy of Ludmila Wieczorek