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Educational Training Course of the Russian-Norwegian Youth Environmental Centre
Institutions involved and funding. The project is initiated and implemented by the Arkhangelsk regional youth environmental organisation Aetas. The project has been implemented in close collaboration with the Norwegian environmental organisation Natur og Ungdom. Natur og Ungdom has taken part in a number of seminars and activities and received visitors from the centre, but in this particular project their contribution has mainly been preparations for and lecturing in one of the seminar modules. The main bulk of the funding for the project came from the Barents Secretariat (NOK 35,000). The coordinating organisation contributed in terms of office premises, some unpaid work, etc. which has not been specified in the final account. The application from Aetas was in the scale of close to NOK 49,000, and activities needed to be adjusted in accordance with the financial support obtained. The project lasted from November 2005 – June 2006 (but is part of a longer-term collaboration between the project partners). Background. The collaboration between Aetas and Natur og Ungdom goes back to 2000 when representatives of the two organisations met at a seminar in the context of the Barents collaboration in which Aetas presented the idea of an informational environmental youth centre in Arkhangelsk, which Natur og Ungdom supported. The organisations started more formal collaboration through a joint application to the Barents Secretariat for a Youth Environmental Centre, which resulted in funding. This was Aetas’ first experience with international project funding. The collaboration between the two institutions developed to become of a more permanent nature, and joint projects included the establishment of a library and an educational training course. The project evaluated was based on a joint idea to strengthen the impact of the organisation in its institutional and contextual setting. Objectives. The objectives of the project “Educational training course of the Russian-Norwegian youth environmental centre” –
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