Innovative practices in Bulgaria
Sharing innovations for improving local self-government
Background
Project goals:
1.To form social commitment to waste problems;
1.1. To stop the not regulated throwing away of garbage;
2.To increase social consciousness and culture;
2.1 To minimize waste production through:
- Selective gathering of waste
- Recycling
- Composting
3. To make this initiative popular
4. To attract media’s attention in order to make project activities well-known
Practice
Within the project the following activities were fulfilled:
- Visit of an illegal dunghill in the town of Berkovica
- Visit of a sanitary depot, financed by EU Funds – the town of Montana
- A seminar on the topic “Waste in my town”along with representatives of EPTISA
- Sending of information to the media
- Participation in a show-spectacle and in a competition for making eco-costumes out of waste materials.
- Presentation of project activities in front of students from other schools (V high school, VI primary school, III primary school – the town of Montana)
- Participation in a youth broadcast called “Teen zone” on the local TV MONT7
- Participation in a youth broadcast called “Teen zone” on the local TV MONT7
Target groups of the project were:
- The eco club
- Students from 5th to 12th grade at the nature-mathematics high school “St. Kliment Ohridski”
- Students from other schools in the town of Montana
Participants in the first initiatives were only the students from the eco club (18 students – 13 girls and 5 boys; participants in the seminar “Waste in my town” were sixty students from 10th grade at the nature-mathematics high school; participants in the final initiative (the show-spectacle) were over 100 students from different schools.
The eco club was a partner of Montana Municipality and EPTISA in this serious European project. The main executors were veryimpressed by the active and responsible attitude of the students from the eco club, as well as of their enthusiasm which infected their coevals and students from other schools. Medium reflected a greater part of the initiatives and thus they contributed to increasing social awareness.
A similar project with such vast youth participation hasn’t been implemented. It will be very useful if it multiplies in other municipalities. Thus it will assist the increase of people’s ecological consciousness and their responsible behavior toward waste problems in theirresidential place – to minimize waste, to recycle it and waste depot.
The participation of the eco club is voluntary. The main project executors from EPTISA awarded the Eco club with a digital camera. It was used for the realization of some project details and in the coming eco initiatives.
Results
The project implementation increased students’ interest in the problem with waste and the ways for its minimization. Students’ participation in the project also stimulated a responsible attitude in their families for selective waste gathering. The whole school was involved in the initiative for working out models from waste materials and a photo gallery with photos displaying the civil position of youths toward environmental problems.
The generated ecological charge keeps on firing young people with enthusiasm in the following eco initiatives.
The additional effect from project implementation is the close contact that is created between institutions responsible for decision making (regional governor, mayor, municipal council, Regional Inspectorate of Environment and Waters) as well as consulting activities with local NGOs and medium.
For more information:
Mimia Dokova
The town of Montana
7 Julius Irasek Str
tel.: 0888 141 610
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