Awareness raising for citizens in St. Petersburg through a new tool

The project enabled the creation of a service directed for the citizens of St. Petersburg for the increase of environmental awareness. With the assistance of project partners, the Committee of Nature use, Environment Protection and Ecological Safety of the City of St Petersburg created and launched an ecological portal of the city at www.infoeco.ru. The project the project partners, UBC Environment and Sustainable Development Secretariat, the city of Turku, VALONIA, the city of Kotka, and Ecofellows, not only shared their expertise on the similar websites but also improved the user friendliness and content of their own websites to better answer the needs of the target groups. In addition, a set of indicators for sustainable development to make comparision between the cities easier was carried out in the project, too.

The project started in January 2009 and ended in February 2010. The project is co-financed by the Finnish Ministry of Environment and by the project partners.