Green public events – raising awareness on saving resources and reducing waste at public events in Latvia and Estonia

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Estonia - Latvia

Date of latest update: 2023-11-15

Description

Description (EN):

Project background: Public events are the mirror of the society, which reflects its behavior in general. At the same time, it is the space, where at specific moment of time many people are present and they are more reachable to deliver the message. A lot of waste has been produced, brought and left there. Environmentally friendly behavior and choices involves many aspects in terms of food consumption, packaging, energy use, etc. The development of the environmentally friendly behavior in society depends on many aspects such as availability of infrastructures, opportunities to behave environmentally friendly (waste sorting opportunities), information (what does it mean to behave environmentally friendly), good examples (better provided by popular people), attractiveness (videos, TV, campaigns) and more. The project with its campaign will contribute to the increase of the awareness of people in terms of resource efficiency. Taking into account that public events can be very diverse, starting from big festivals in open spaces (music, theater, city summer festivals), conferences, different kind of workshops in closed spaces, our approach is to choose several examples, pilot cases: Positivus Music festival; Viljandi Folk Music festival; indoor education festival in Tartu and conference in Valmiera. Cross-border nature: Estonians and Latvians are very similar by their habits, history, traditions, understandings and culture. These factors make it more efficient to communicate the same messages and to apply the same actions in those two countries. Lead Partner (NGO "Homo ecos:") is more experienced in organization of the public and media campaigns in Latvia, however in Estonia organizers of the public events are more flexible in trying new things, e.g. deposit cup system, so there will be synergy created between countries to transfer the experience, best practice and spread the word to another organizations who are involved in organization of public events. The objective: The objective of this project is to raise awareness on more environmentally friendlier behavior in general, but especially focusing on waste reduction and energy saving issues among active adults and youngsters, who attend public events by organization of interactive activities at those events, involving the organizers and service providers, and showing that there is also another way how to organize public events. Main activities: To facilitate the change in behavior of participants of public events the awareness raising campaign will be organized contributing to the greener and environmentaly friendlier events at: 1. Positivus Music Festival, 2. Viljandi Folk Music Festival, 3. Young Scientists Festival in Tartu, 4. Business Conference in Valmiera. To support the actions at the events the overall media campaign in Latvia and Estonia will be organized. At the same time to disseminate the results and lessons learned of the project, received feedback from the campaigns, the recommendations will be developed and disseminated to the organizers of the public events in both countries.

Achievements (EN):

The objective of this project was to raise awareness focusing on waste reduction and energy saving issues among active adults and youngsters, who attend public events by organization of interactive activities at those events, involving the organizers and service providers, and showing that there is also another way how to organize public events. To facilitate the change in behaviour of participants of public events the awareness raising campaign was organized contributing to the greener and environmentally friendlier events at: Viljandi Folk Music Festival in July 2017 and 2018. Young Scientists' Festival in Tartu in April 2018. Business Conference in Valmiera in June 2018. Positivus Music Festival in Salacgriva in July 2018. The digital tool and interactive exhibition (creative installations) "Save our paradise" were presented in the Business conference and both music festivals in 2018. During the Young Scientists' Festival and Viljandi Folk Music festival the energy and waste areas were opened for visitors and they had the opportunity to take part in educative workshops. In total more than 7700 persons took part in the activities offered in the framework of the project "Green Public Events". The green guidelines were developed and disseminated among the organizers of the public events in both countries. Guidelines in Estonian, Latvian and English for download are available down in this page. To support the actions at the events the overall media campaign in Latvia and Estonia was organized, including the outdoors posters - tips for the picnic season in Estonia in summer 2017, posters about avoiding single use dishes in Latvia summer 2017 and in Estonia summer 2018, different posts in social media and video competition for youth (age limit:30). In total more than 1 000 000 persons were reached by different communication channels of the Estonian-Latvia cooperation project.

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Expected Results (EN): Awareness of people in terms of resource efficiency

Expected Outputs (EN):

During the course of the project it is planned to have 4 pilot cases, public events, to tests the possibilities to organizes those (and similar) events in a more sustainable way and raise the awareness of the participants regarding the saving of the natural resources: 1. Positivus music festival in Latvia (more then 30 000 participants each day) 2. Viljandi folk music festival in Estonia (about 20 000 participants) 3. Young Scientists' Festival in Tartu conference hall (around 300 participants and 800 visitors) 4. Conference in Valmiera town (around 300 participants) As the activities planned within the proposed project are directly targeted to the participants of the mentioned public events (around 2 800 people out of around 52 600 participants) and to the public in general in relation to the picnic season, in result the awareness of people in terms of resource efficiency will increase contributing to the achievement of the target value of the result indicator set by the Programme. However, we should keep in mind that by organization of one campaign on the spot the change in the behavior of people is challenging; therefore, the media campaign will facilitate the overall perception of the matter.

Thematic information

Sustainable management of natural resources Energy efficiency Waste and pollution

Specific Objective: Increased awareness of energy saving, sorting waste and re-use, and the more efficient management of common water resources

Thematic Objective: (06) preserving and protecting the environment and promoting resource efficiency by:

Investment Priority: (06f) promoting innovative technologies to improve environmental protection and resource efficiency in the waste sector, water sector and with regard to soil, or to reduce air pollution

Partners (4)

Lead Partner: Sihtasutus Tartu Keskkonnahariduse Keskus

Address: Lille 10, 51010 Tartu, Estonia

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.teec.ee

Total budget: EUR 101 740.03

ERDF budget: EUR 86 479.03

Biedrība "Homo ecos:"

Name: Biedrība "Homo ecos:"

Address: Ernestines 12, LV1046 Riga, Latvia

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.homoecos.lv

Total budget: EUR 61 689.89

ERDF budget: EUR 52 436.41

SIA Web Multishop Company

Name: SIA Web Multishop Company

Address: Stabu 61 k2-41, LV-1011 Riga, Latvia

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.webmultishop.com

Total budget: EUR 70 766.32

ERDF budget: EUR 60 151.37

MTÜ Eesti Roheline Liikumine

Name: MTÜ Eesti Roheline Liikumine

Address: Tiigi 8-24, 51003 Tartu, Estonia

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.roheline.ee

Total budget: EUR 96 189.42

ERDF budget: EUR 81 761.01

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NGO "Homo ecos:"

Green public events – raising awareness on saving resources and reducing waste at public events in Latvia and Estonia

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Web Multishop Company Ltd

Green public events – raising awareness on saving resources and reducing waste at public events in Latvia and Estonia

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NGO Estonian Green Movement

Green public events – raising awareness on saving resources and reducing waste at public events in Latvia and Estonia

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Foundation Tartu Environmental Education Centre

Green public events – raising awareness on saving resources and reducing waste at public events in Latvia and Estonia

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Summary

Project name (EN): Green public events – raising awareness on saving resources and reducing waste at public events in Latvia and Estonia

Project acronym: Green Public Events

Project start date: 2017-03-01

Project end date: 2018-10-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 330 385.66

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 280 827.81

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 280 827.81.

Documents

Documents on this project are listed below, and organised by category. Please note field "Data source", attached to each document. Keep.eu users are free to use these documents as long as they mention the data source and keep.eu.

Reports

Green guidelines

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: http://www.webmultishop.com/daba-musu-paradize/

Publication date: 2020-01-27

Document date: 2018-10-31

Languages: lv

Attachment file: Download

Green guidelines

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: http://www.webmultishop.com/daba-musu-paradize/

Publication date: 2020-01-27

Document date: 2018-10-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Green guidelines

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: http://www.webmultishop.com/daba-musu-paradize/

Publication date: 2020-01-27

Document date: 2018-10-31

Languages: et

Attachment file: Download

Videos / films

Unique event. Cooking for an environmentally friendly picnic

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://estlat.eu/en/estlat-results/green-public-events.html

Publication date: 2020-01-30

Document date: 2017-07-01

Eco-friendly picnic (LV)

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://estlat.eu/en/estlat-results/green-public-events.html

Publication date: 2020-01-30

Document date: 2017-06-01

Languages: et, lv

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2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Estonia - Latvia

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2023-11

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329 / 329 (100%)

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