Awareness Raising Project

Project Partners

The project Awareness Raising for Citizens in St. Petersburg  through a New Tool was a fruitful joint effort of the city of St. Petersburg and its Finnish partners. The following organisations participated in the project:



Commitee of Environmental Protection and Ecological Safety

The Commitee for Nature Use, Environmental Protection and Ecological Safety is a sectoral body of executive power of the city of Saint Petersburg. It is created to execute state administration and to pursue state policy in the sphere of environmental protection, use of natural resources and environmental safety as well as to coordinate the activity in this field of other executive power bodies of the official authority of Saint Petersburg. The new ecological website can be found in www.infoeco.ru.

 

UBC

Union of the Baltic Cities (UBC) is a voluntary, proactive network mobilizing the shared potential of over hundred member cities for democratic, economic, social, cultural and environmentally sustainable development of the Baltic Sea Region. UBC is a Baltic Sea Regional co-operation and policy actor, a link between the cities, and practical project implementation network or organisation. UBC has thirteen thematic commissions. The UBC Commission on Environment (www.ubc-environment.net) is responsible for the Sustainability Action programme of the network organization.

 

VALONIA

VALONIA (www.valonia.fi) is a service centre for sustainable development and energy of Southwest Finland. VALONIA is a public organisation and its services cover a wide range of activities including thematic weeks and campaign events, counselling and advice services. VALONIA is the coordinator of regional Agenda 21 action plan. Services are offered to municipalities, other public actors, citizens, consumers and households, companies and organizations and associations. This kind of joint activity promoting sustainable development is unique within Finland.

 

There are 28 municipalities in Southwest Finland region, and in 2009 nineteen of them are participating in regional Agenda 21 action plan. Most services of Valonia are for participating municipalities but part of services covers all Southwest Finland. In this comparison all 28 municipalities are included in Valonias area.

The municipalities in Southwest Finland are (the situation in the 1st of January 2009)  Aura, Kaarina*, Kemiönsaari, Koski Tl, Kustavi*, Laitila*, Lieto*, Loimaa*, Länsi-Turunmaa*, Marttila, Masku*, Mynämäki*, Naantali*, Nousiainen*, Oripää, Paimio*, Pyhäranta*, Pöytyä, Raisio*, Rusko*, Salo*, Sauvo*, Somero, Taivassalo, Tarvasjoki, Turku*, Uusikaupunki* and Vehmaa*. The municipalities marked with the asterisk (*) are participating in regional Agenda 21 action plan.

The City of Kotka

The City of Kotka (www.kotka.fi) is located in the South-East Finland on the coast of the Baltic Sea, the Gulf of Finland, at the estuary of Kymi river. The City of Kotka is actively working for sustainability (see the EkoKotka pages www.kotka.fi/ekokotka).

 

Ecofellows

Ecofellows Ltd. (www.ekokumppanit.fi/en) is a company formed to promote sustainable development. It is owned by the city of Tampere, Tampere Power and Tampere Regional Solid Waste Management. Ecofellows maintains a wide and strong network, co-operating closely with other enterprises, public organisations, authorities, scientific and educational institutions that all promote sustainable development. The company operates in three distinct sectors: the Centre of Urban environment Moreenia relating consumer matters, expert services to enterprises and communities, and various development projects carried out by the company.