Welcome to "Our Common Baltic" 2022


GENERAL INFORMATION:

This educational course has over 25 years of history. It started as an annual training on a ship “Amaila” (a 25 m long 100-years old wooden ship!) by sailing in the Baltic Sea and bringing together young professionals and activists interested in the Baltic Sea protection.

 

Since then, it gathered over 300 participants from all Baltic countries, enriching their knowledges in the environmental protection and bringing new active people into it.

COURSE OBJECTIVE:

The main objective of the "Our Common Baltic" Course 2022 was to involve and educate young leaders in trainings and projects in the field, engaging with peers, interacting with the local community, and to make them included in the work of local environmental organizations.


The course contributed to raise awareness, exchange knowledge and implement new projects that can create a positive change for the Baltic people and the environment.


The participants got access to instruments for activism at the individual and institutional levels and a chance to implement them in practice.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

WHO: 
Young people starting from the age of 18, who were motivated to be environmental activists and leaders, and keen to involve their peers and the local community into the environmental protection work.


WHEN: 

  • 4 May - Start of the course
  • May-June - Implementation of the in-country small projects
  • August - Camp/meetup for the info-campaign preparation
  • August-September - Campaigns implementation
  • End of September - Presentation of the results at the Baltic Sea Water Festival

HOW: 

PHASE 1

The course started with a series of 5 introductory online lectures on the following environmental themes: 

  • Clean & safe water 
  • Waste 
  • Hazardous substances 
  • Biodiversity conservation 
  • Climate change 

Each of the lectures was accompanied by practical tasks and small projects (e.g. household waste audit, audit of phosphates in detergents and microplastics in cosmetics, nitrates monitoring, checking presence of drinking fountains in the locality, constructing birdhouses, finding out specific biodiversity problems in your area etc).


For each country, a social network group was created for communication, offline meetings, small-projects realization and support.


PHASE 2

In August, the activists, who have mastered the introductive lectures and successfully fulfilled the practical tasks and the group projects, gathered in their countries for a camp or intensive meet up to prepare an information campaign on the theme selected by them under the supervision of the thematic expert. 


PHASE 3

After it, the participants had five weeks for the implementation of the campaign in their country, with CCB support.


PHASE 4

And finally, they presented the results of the implemented campaign to the local environmental organisations and the CCB network.

Online Lectures

INTRODUCTION TO THE BALTIC SEA

MIKHAIL DURKIN, CCB Executive Secretary

Introduction to CCB & OCB

MIKHAIL DURKIN, CCB Executive Secretary

Mare Nostrum Balticum

CATHERINE EVSUKOVA, CCB Youth Group Coordinator

1st OCB Meeting

CLEAN & SAFE WATER

EWA LEŚ, CCB Working Area Leader on Eutrophication (Poland)

The Good Ecological Status of rivers flowing to the Baltic: what can we do 

NATALLIA PORECHINA, Sustainable water resources management expert (Belarus)

Dealing with Nitrate & Phosphate pollution at
personal level


Questions

Assignment

WASTE: OUR IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENT

ANNA USHAKOVA, CCB Working Area Leader on Maritime (Russia)

Coastal & Maritime protection activities in the Baltic Sea Region

DMITRY PHILIPPENKO, Project Manager at Kaliningrad Regional Center (Russia)

Coastal Watch: public monitoring of threats, water quality, bioindication etc.

ANTON ZAITSEV, Communications Manager at Clean Games (Russia)

Clean Games & their method, volunteers’ training


Questions

Assignment

HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES IN DAILY LIVES & ACTIVITIES AROUND US

HEIDRUN FAMMLER, Founder of the non-profit Baltic Environmental Forum (Germany)

Hazardous chemicals in daily life: toys, cosmetics, household, textiles

ELIZAVETA MERINOVA, Expert in Microplastics, Marine Litter, Waste and Conscious Consumption (Russia)

Microplastics: from pollution to solution


Questions

Assignments

BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION

AIMI HAMBERG, IDA CARLÉN, BETTINA TAYLOR, Marine biologists from Denmark, Sweden, Germany

Biodiversity in the Baltic Sea, Beauty & Threats

JURY BOLTUTS, Salmonids protection Project Coordinator (Belarus)

Salmonids: protection, barriers, volunteering


Polina Bakunovich, Project Assistant at the Baltic Fund for Nature (Russia)

Inaturalist as a tool to study nature

Kanstantin CHYKALAU, Environmental expert (Belarus)

Biodiversity and dams



Questions (coming soon)

  • Google form

Assignment 

ECO-FRIENDLY LIFESTYLE & CLIMATE CHANGE

DARYA CHUMAKOVA, Expert in eco-friendly lifestyle, corporate social responsibility & sustainable development (Belarus) 

Eco-friendly lifestyle & Climate change


Questions (coming soon)

  • Download (PDF)

Assignment

 

Contact person:

 

Catherine Evsukova, CCB Youth Working Group Coordinator:
catherine.evsukova@ccb.se

 

 

The OCB course is one of our annual events. 
You can read more about the project and the previous or future editions.

 

Project Our Common Baltic

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