Raising environmental awareness in local communities by joint conservation of bats in cross border regions of Hungary, Slovakia, Romania and Ukraine

Programme 2014 - 2020 Hungary - Slovakia - Romania - Ukraine ENI CBC

Date of latest update: 2024-03-16

Description

Description (EN):

This project was born due to a negative attitude of a large group of local people in the Cross Border area toward bats. This can lead to the degradation of the natural sources, overturning the sustainability of the ecosystem in the targeted territories of Hungary, Romania, Slovakia and Ukraine. Bats are key element of the ecosystem since they are directly responsible to the agricultural pest control (consuming insects). Due to the myths and fairy tales created by people, bats become subjects of prejudices. The extinction even of one bat species will provide enormous ecological losses and a wide scale of ecosystem collapse. This project will focus on the protection of bats in the targeted region, by concrete conservation actions like: proper assessment of the endangered bat populations, making alternative shelters of bat colonies (bat boxes, warning chambers), also will focus on the protection of cultural values like protection of the religious objects in churches (cleaning the churches from bat guano). Several public aware actions will be implemented: a mobile exhibition, common workshops of bat box preparation with locals, a documentary movie dedicated to bats. The results will be disseminated by printing materials (guideline and work for children), by webpage and social media (FB) and by warning panels (Bat friendly church). Our target groups - priest, eparchies, church administrators, NGOs, local people - will be aware about the importance of bats and their conservation. This is an innovative project because the partners in four countries will act in synchronized way, sharing good practices, and attracting a huge number of local people in the activities of bat protection, sharing its knowledge and the project visibility professionally not just at country level, but at international level as well.

Website: https://huskroua-cbc.eu/

Expected Results (EN):

I. Assuring protection of the building dwelling bats in 300 settlements in four countries of the cross border region by joint implementation of conservation techniques during the 2 year of the project. II. Raising awareness of 3560 local people about ecological and economical benefits of bats, by a joint information campaign in the four countries cross border region, during the 2 year of the project. Protecting bats, who have a complex ecological role in European ecosystems, the Project will contribute to the maintenance of biodiversity with cross border relevance (TO 6 - Priority 1). In similar way will contribute the Project to this thematic objective by joint ecological education actions and by imparting good practices realized by the strategic cooperation between civil organizations from the four participating countries.

Thematic information

Agriculture and fisheries and forestry

Thematic Objective: Environmental protection, climate change mitigation and adaptation

Partners (4)

Lead Partner: E-Consult Association Satu Mare

Address: Gabriel Georgescu 29, 440052 Satu Mare, Romania

Legal status: private

Website: http://ecoedu.ro/

Total budget: EUR 158 497.00

ENI budget: EUR 142 647.30

Slovak Bat Conservation Society

Name: Slovak Bat Conservation Society

Address: Andraščíkova 618/1, 8501 Bardejov, Slovakia

Legal status: private

Website: https://netopiere.sk/

Total budget: EUR 99 249.60

ENI budget: EUR 89 324.64

Birdlife Hungary

Name: Birdlife Hungary

Address: Tengerszem, 3758 Jósvafő, Hungary

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.mme.hu/

Total budget: EUR 91 283.47

ENI budget: EUR 82 155.12

Institute of Ecological and Religious Studies

Name: Institute of Ecological and Religious Studies

Address: Bachinskoho Sq. 1a, 88000 Uzhhorod, Ukraine

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.ie-rs.org/

Total budget: EUR 100 605.00

ENI budget: EUR 90 544.50

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Slovak Bat Conservation Society

Raising environmental awareness in local communities by joint conservation of bats in cross border regions of Hungary, Slovakia, Romania and Ukraine

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Magyar Madártani és Természetvédelmi Egyesület

Raising environmental awareness in local communities by joint conservation of bats in cross border regions of Hungary, Slovakia, Romania and Ukraine

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E-Consult Association Satu Mare

Raising environmental awareness in local communities by joint conservation of bats in cross border regions of Hungary, Slovakia, Romania and Ukraine

Partners and Projects info

Institute of Ecological and Religious Studies

Raising environmental awareness in local communities by joint conservation of bats in cross border regions of Hungary, Slovakia, Romania and Ukraine

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Summary

Project name (EN): Raising environmental awareness in local communities by joint conservation of bats in cross border regions of Hungary, Slovakia, Romania and Ukraine

Project acronym: BAT4MAN

Project start date: 2020-03-01

Project end date: 2022-02-28

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 449 635.07

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 404 671.56

Co-financing sources:

ENPI/ENI/NDICI: Amount, EUR 404 671.56.

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BAT4MAN En

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://bat4man.ecoedu.ro/

Publication date: 2024-07-29

Document date: 2022-08-15

Languages: en

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2014 - 2020 Hungary - Slovakia - Romania - Ukraine ENI CBC

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2023-03-08

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Raising environmental awareness in local communities by joint conservation of bats in cross border regions of Hungary, Slovakia, Romania and Ukraine

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