Croatia (Total: USD 50,000) Cleaner Production USD 8,500 NGO Name: PBN Club, association of food technologists, biotechnologists and nutritionists, Zagreb Project Leader: Vera Dostal   Project Summary: The project will organise lectures on the subject of avoiding and/or minimising waste production and modifying industrial processes. Interactive trainings will be organised to educate professionals on implementing cleaner production measures and the Environmental Management System. Promoting Methods of Eco- and Organic Agriculture USD 9,700 NGO Name: Europe House, Vukovar Project Leader: Miroslav Rimar   Project Summary: Using the methodology of organising direct radio shows, trainings dealing with work methods in eco-agriculture, lectures for primary schools, lectures in villages within the project area, activities for cultivating eco-vegetables involving school children, distributing Californian worms, distributing info-educative leaflets and posters, and cultivating and collecting medicinal herbs with the school children. Protecting Danube Basin from Pollution, Western Lateral Channel USD 4,700 NGO Name: Brod Ecological Society, Slavonski brod Project Leader: Simo Benes   Project Summary: The project will organise wide and systematic media campaigns to educate relevant members of the public about water pollution. A joint meeting will be held for representatives of water enterprises, local authorities, media, NGOs and educational institutions, in which joint goals will be defined and strategies will be developed for reaching them. Agriculture for Life: Agriculture as a Friend to Animals — One Step in the Danube Basin Pollution Reduction USD 6,900 NGO Name: Eleonora Society for Nature and Environment Protection Project Leader: Domagoj Legan   Project Summary: The project will involve data collection, networking, producing educational materials, web page designing (promoting and implementing the ideas of the Aarhus Convention), education and promotion (organising lectures, round tables and media presentations). Efforts will be made to link to foreign NGOs in the Danube basin and exchange experience. The project will be implemented as a model in different local areas. What Has to Be Known about Nutrients and Toxic Ingredients in Danube Environment USD 13,400 NGO Name: Franjo Koscec Society for the Protection and Improvement of Human Environment, Varazdin Project Leader: Dora Radosavljevic   Project Summary: The project will organise 10 workshops in northwest Croatia, with integrative data collection on pollution hot-spots and systematic informing of the public through media about the state of the environment. Monitoring Drava Pollution and Informing Public and Polluters USD 6,800 NGO Name: Osijek Greens – Free Movement, Osijek Project Leader: Kruno Kartus   Project Summary: The project will monitor the collection of wastewaters in urban and suburban settlements from mechanical, chemical, pharmaceutical, photographical, leader treatment utilities through simple research methods. It will provide collected data to the public with analysis. The project will also organise public discussions, participate in joint monitoring actions, publish educative and promotional materials, involve public enterprises and local government representatives, and promote Aarhus Convention principles.

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