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Establishment
* Staff * Budget * Achievements
Projects * Expertise * Donors * Contact address

Year of Establishment:
1995

Current Staff:
Asta Paskeviciene, Country Office Director
Regina Kunigeliene, Financial Officer

Operational Budget in 2003: 
EUR 60,000

Major Achievements:
The teachers training web site www.efseurope.org was developed and launched by the office. In the sites lessons plans, methodological materials, teacher’s forum is available for Lithuanian teachers community.

Ministry of Environment and UNDP CO Lithuania selected as an implementing agency REC CO Lithuania to implement project “National Capacity Self-Assessment for Global Environmental management”.

Main Projects:
Schools for sustainability in the Baltic States
Education for Sustainable Development – an Interactive Web Site

Country Office Expertise:
Education

  • Developing and promoting models for the implementation of the State educational policy;
  • Developing professional competence of teachers;
  • Developing and publishing methodological materials for schools;
  • Maintenance of the web site www.efseurope.org/lietuva for the educational innovations.
Public Awareness and Civil Society
  • Implementing of Åarhus Convention and the EU Directive on Access to Environmental Information;
  • Encouraging civil initiatives and NGO capacity building;
  • Developing popular publications;
  • Facilitating dialogue and co-operation among NGOs, public authorities and business.
Promotion of Renewable Energy Sources
  • Implementing the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and Kyoto protocol;
  • Feasibility studies for wind energy development;
  • Integrating of renewable energy into regional development plans.

Donors for Projects:
ES SOCRATES/Minerva Programme
MATRA Programme for Social Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Netherlands
Finnish Ministry of Environment

Contact address:
Svitrigailos g. 7/16
03110, Vilnius
Lithuania

Tel/Fax: (370-5) 233-5451 
Tel: (370-5) 231-0067
E-mail:
rec@rec.lt
Web: www.rec.lt

Homepage of REC 
Lithuania

 

Related information:

Map of Lithuania

The Government of Lithuania

UNEP-Infoterra Lithuania: Environmental Information Section

Ministry of Environment

Country Report 
(30 pages, 690-KByte MS Word file, general introduction and transport telematics, November 1998)

 

 

This page was last updated: 
August 2004

 

 

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