March 6, 2005. The
Interim Board of
POSNet (The
Prespa and Ohrid Sustainability Network)
convened on March 6, 2005, in Ohrid, Macedonia,
to establish
criteria and procedure for selecting additional civic organizations to
become
the “core members” of POSNet and ultimately the members of the forthcoming
Management
Board of POSNet. More ...
February 8, 2005: In the frame of the project
Grafting Our
Future Onto the Old Roots, ALLCOOP organized press conference to
present and promote the project brochure "Grafting our Future onto the
Old Roots" published in 600 copies in Macedonian and including
summaries in English and Albanian (
“Vila Saint
Sofia”, Ohrid, Macedonia). More ...
November 20-22, 2003: Ňhe
Regional Environmental Center for Central and
Eastern Europe, organized the regional conference "Forum on
Biodiversity and Tourism in South Eastern Europe, held in Sofija,
Bulgarija. At the conference Oliver
Avramoski and Jovanco Sekuloski presented a
paper on the experience in developing ecotourism in the Galicica
National
Park. More
...
November 18,
2003: In the frame of the project
Grafting Our
Future Onto the Old Roots, ALLCOOP
organizes the second presentation of some traditional varieties of
apples
and pears from the village of Zavoj (the Ohrid Region) in the town of
Resen
(the Prespa Region), in the front of the City House.
More ...
November 15-16, 2003: Meeting of project partners in Ohrid. Representatives
of the NGOs
Children of the Earth from Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria,
the
Association for Education Improvement from Belgrade, Serbia
and Monte Negro, the
Association Tourism and Environment from
Pogradec, Albania, and
ALLCOOP met
in Ohrid on November 15-16 to discuss and agree upon the final design
of
the Marketable Environmental Education Programs developed in the frame
of
the project
Establishing Financial Mechanisms for Conserving
Biodiversity in The Balkan
Region: Sustainable Development Through Eco Tourism and
Environmental Education in Protected Areas.
Also, at the meeting, the partner organizations discussed on a range of
follow
up activities, including development of a project proposal that would
build
upon the outcomes of the concurrent projects in the four pilot areas in
field
of eco-tourism and environmental education in the local protected
areas.
More ...
November 8, 2003: In the frame of the project
Grafting Our
Future Onto the Old Roots, on November 8, 2003, from 11-14,
some of the traditional varieties of fruits
and products made of them from the village of Zavoj - Ohrid area, were
presented
on the plateau of the trade center "Letnica".
More ...
November 2003: The Swiss State
Secretariat For Economic Affairs in co-operation with Republic of
Macedonia,
Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning, Republic of Albania,
Ministry
of Environment, and the Ministry of Environment, Physical Planning
and Public Works of the Hellenic Republic, on November 3-4, in Hotel
Granit, in Ohrid, organized the
International Lake Ohrid
Conference. At the plenary session of the conference Mr.
Avramoski presented the
paper:
Cooperation in Transboundary Environmental Management in
the Region of Lake Ohrid and Prespa Lakes. The paper contains and
overview
of the main developments, achievements and lessons learned in
transboundary
cooperation in the region since 1995 with a special focus on the Lake
Ohrid
Conservation Project.
More ...
October 2003: In the frame of the project
Establishing
Financial Mechanisms for Conserving Biodiversity in The Balkan
Region: Sustainable Development Through Eco Tourism and
Environmental Education in Protected Areas, ALLCOOP in
cooperation
with the elementary school "Vanco Nikoleski" from Leskoec,
organized
a field testing of selected Environmental Education Products developed
by ALLCOOP and other partner NGOs of the project from Albania,
Bulgaria
and Serbia. More than 80 students from the 3rd and 4th grade of this
school
and 4 teachers/instructors, at the recreational center at Screbatno,
used
15 different environmental education packages, containing mostly plays
and games, to learn more about and understand of the natural
values of
the Petrino Mountain and the neighbouring Galicica National Park.
September - October 2003: In the frame of the project:
GRAFTING
OUR FUTURE ONTO THE OLD ROOTS: Community-based in-situ conservation of
traditional fruit tree varieties and the associated traditional
agricultural landscape in the Region of Ohrid and the Prespa Lakes
(Albania, Greece, and Macedonia), the activities in September and
October were mainly focused on restoration of an old orchard of
traditional fruit tree varieties (in Leskoec, Prespa), and
establishment of new orchards of traditional fruit tree varieties
(Zavoj, Leskoec, Ohrid) that were identified in the previous period of
implementation of the project.
More ... 
