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LA PROJECTS IN NACKA

The City of Nacka tries to stimulate and encourage citizens to change their lifestyle in a more environmental way. Many efforts have been undertaken with two projects described below.

In January 1999, an educational program for 30 Russian environmentalists was successfully completed. The aim of the program was to familiarise high level environmental officials from St Petersburg and the Leningrad region with western "know-how" in the field of environment. The main objective of the program was to build up knowledge needed for the introduction of Agenda 21 in their city and for use of such tools as EIA, ISO 14000 and EMAS. Another aim was to build bridges between cities and different organizations.

The University of Finance and Economics in St. Petersburg initiated the project. Planning and implementation of the program was carried out together with The Royal University of Stockholm and partly with the University of Agriculture in Sweden. The course was at the university level and its program was based on the step-by-step principle with a good measure of lectures, study visits and homework. A lot of attention was paid to the strategies of environmental work.

The program closed with a five-day trip around Lake Mälaren. During the trip participants studied different positive examples, such as Understenshöjdens echo village and Sånga Säby conference centre. They got acquainted with e.g., different energy production solutions, with wetland areas and environmental management system in a large company. There were many opportunities to discuss different strategies and solutions.

REACTE, Raising Environmental Awareness among Cities and Towns in Europe, is the name of the EU project that starts in Nacka this spring. The main aim of the project is to increase the number of small/medium enterprises which are actively working with environmental issues. The other partners are Espoo in Finland, Getafe in Spain and Croydon in Great Britain.

Further informtaion:

Mr Guldbrand Skjönberg
City of Nacka
Phone:
+46 87 18 93 80
Fax:
+46 87 18 95 80
e-mail:
guldbrand.skjonberg@nacka.se
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