The online format is the most appropriate way to conduct events in the context of a pandemic of the new coronavirus. In addition, due to the holding of the conference in this format, part of the funds freed up within the framework of the initiative, which were allocated by the State University to purchase means of protection against viral infections for the partners of the initiative.
The Forum of Environmental Ideas is one of the events implemented by the environmental initiative “URA Grodno!” and implemented by the Yanka Kupala Grodno State University in the framework of the Project.
The purpose of the Forum is to attract the public to the development and implementation of measures aimed at improving the quality of the environment, popularization of the environmental initiative «URA Grodno!» in the local community.
Forum Objectives:
1. Development of partnerships and the establishment of long-term cooperation between Grodno residents within the framework of the environmental initiative “URA Grodno!”;
2. Creation of educational and creative interaction of Grodno residents on the development and implementation of measures aimed at improving the quality of the environment;
3. Identification, presentation and synthesis of best public environmental practices in the city of Grodno and the Grodno region;
4. Holding an exhibition-competition of methodological developments in the field of environmental education and an environmentally friendly lifestyle, as well as creative works of students of educational institutions of the city of Grodno and the Grodno region.
The Forum participants were teachers and students of educational institutions of the city of Grodno and the Grodno region, representatives of environmental public associations; specialists working in the field of organizing work with youth in educational institutions.
The final on-line conference of the Forum presents the best developments in the field of environmental education in the nominations «Methodological developments» and «Description of the system of work on the formation of an environmentally friendly lifestyle.» In total, over 230 works were submitted to the competition (˃60 designs, ˃170 creative works, including drawings, posters, leaflets, comics, ecological fairy tales, poems and videos)
Conference Organizer:
Kremleva Olga Evgenievna, associate professor of the Department of Ecology, head of the environmental initiative «URA Grodno!»,
Bogdan Galina Anatolyevna, teacher, project coordinator of the State Educational Institution “Secondary School No. 12 of Grodno”, manager of the environmental initiative “URA Grodno!”,
Zhishko Tatyana Aleksandrovna, chief specialist of the education department of the Grodno city executive committee.
Ecological initiative of the Yanka Kupala State University of Moscow: “Inclusive environmental management by motivating the inclusion of residents of the city of Grodno in the development and implementation of measures aimed at improving the quality of the environment and monitoring environmental risks, in the context of an educational multicenter of comprehensive support for an environmentally friendly lifestyle of local communities» URA- Grodno! ”