Skadar/Shkodra Lake Activities Education Workshop for teachers June 27-29, 2002, Shkoder, Albania A workshop was organised for biology teachers from Albanian primary and secondary schools in the Shkoder Lake region. Officials from the Albanian Ministry of Education as well as teachers from Montenegro attended. New curriculum in the Albanian educational system was presented and deemed a good pilot model. The action plan called for a similar workshop to be organised in Montenegro in December 2003. Training in writing cooperative grants March 19, 2003, Shkoder, Albania Training was organised for non-profit organisations which responded to the cooperative call for grants. Eleven organisations from Montenegro and 10 from Albania took place. The purpose of the training was to instruct participants on how to write cooperative project proposals so that good project proposals could be submitted to the call for cooperative grants. Subsequently, five projects were approved in each country. Activities with education institutions (2001-2003) Several activities involving educational institutions were organised in both Montenegro and Albania: field trips, art and literary competitions, exhibitions, slide presentations, clean-ups, concerts and more. Most of the activities had a cross-border character and were organised with the participation of children from Montenegro and Albania. Schools are recognised as good local partners who can work on raising public awareness of the lake’s value and the need for its protection. Field trip A field trip was organised to Skadar Lake on the 12th of September, 2004, for the environmental section of the Secondary School in Cetinje, which prepares materials for the local newsletter, Zooza. The purpose of the trip was to present a part of the Lake to the pupils that was previously completely unknown to them, raising awareness of the necessity of protecting the Lake. Around 30 children, together with their biology teacher, Ms. Sanja Kaludjerovic, had a chance to visit several naturally and culturally important sites, such as: Grmozur Island (ornithological reserve); the Beska islands (with famous monasteries); Starcevo island (a small island with only one inhabitant); Radus, or 'eye' (the deepest sublacustric spring); and Murici Beach. These visits were accompanied with interesting stories about the history and nature of Skadar Lake, narrated by Mr. Milan Pravilovic, an archeologist, and Mr. Vukic Pulevic, a botanist. After the trip participants prepared a lot of materials (texts, drawings, poems, and so on) about the Lake for the next issue of the Zooza newsletter.

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