SUFA Project Proceeding

After the Baltic Roundtable on Local Environmental Policy, the SUFA Project is now organising a Training Course for Local Agenda 21 Co-ordinators and experts from the Baltic States and Poland. The altogether 16 participants will meet in the first training workshop in Kaunas, Lithuania, 22-25 November, and after Kaunas two more workshops will follow in 2001.

In between the workshops, the participants and the training course facilitator Barbara Anton from the project partner ICLEI will be continuously in touch with each other via www to share problems and solutions. The intention is to plan the training on the basis of the needs of the participants and their home cities, and this demands, in addition to continuous communication, remarkable activity from the participants.

During 2001, also four publications on Local Agenda 21 will be made by the UBC. These will provide information on the Human Resources available for LA 21 training and development in the target countries, as well as information on good practices and on the reasons that make them so good. A fair part of this information will be based on research made within the project by project partner Abo Akademi University.

The SUFA Project (Success Factors on Local Environmental Policy for Local Agenda 21 Activities and EU Enlargement in the Baltic Sea Region) has received cofunding from the European Union and the Finnish Ministry of the Environment. More information on the project can be obtained from the UBC Commission on Environment Secretariat, as well as from UBC website.