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International Network Living Lakes celebrates its 15th anniversary. Lake Peipsi/Lake Võrtsjärv were accepted as double members of this international partnership in 2003.


University of Tartu, in cooperation with Peipsi CTC and Tbilisi State University are organising International Summer School on cross border cooperation, in Georgia


Peipsi CTC project manager Margit Säre will give a lecture at international conference "Borders, Cooperation and Regional Conflict in Post-Soviet Contexts: Between Integration and Disintegration?”; to be held 28-30 April, in Tbilisi, Georgia

Peipsi CTC project manager Margit Säre will give a lecture in Tartu University, on Estonian-Russian border region socio-economic development.

The lecture is a part of intensive international study program " Bordering perspectives and processes in everyday life at the EU’s external frontiers” .

Peipsi CTC coordinator will participate in "Greenman" project Steering Committee and Staff Meeting in Rezekne on 18.-19. April

Peipsi CTC project assistent Sirje Tamm will attend XI Baltic Sea NGO Forum, in Saint-Petersburg, on April 16-17

The World Day and World Water Days will be organized in Räpina and Mustvee gymnasiums, during 11-15 March.


International workshop "Green management system development and methods of urban green areas inventory", took place in Pskov, on 7-8 February


Peipsi CTC, together with Tampere City Government specialists, organised a study trip to Tampere, on 12.-14. December.


GreenMan project seminar "Urban Landscape design" took place in Pskov on 28.-30. November.

On seminar Peipsi Center for Transboundary Cooperation represented printing warm calendar about Tartu, Rezekne and Pskov green areas.

Peipsi CTC project manager will make a presentation at border research confernence BRIT XII “Border Regions in Transition”, to take place November 13-16, in Fukuoka/ Busan

Latvian, Russian and Estonian colleagues were invited to collect Estonian pearls of environmental education field

21 Russian, Latvian and Estonian nature centres’ specialists participated in five days study trip to Estonian nature education centres from 25th till 29th of September. The aims of the trip were to collect experiences in different nature and environmental education sites, to get good overview of Estonian environmental education system, to get acquainted with interactive methods and to create joint network with project partners and Estonian nature centres. All together 14 institutions and hiking tracks were visited.

Celebration of European Cooperation Day in the Narva-Ivangorod border area

Peipsi Center for Transboundary Cooperation celebrates European Cooperation Day

On 21 September, European Cooperation Day will be celebrated all over Europe and in neighbouring countries 

Peipsi Center for Transboundary Cooperation organized international seminar "Environmant Management in Urban Areas" on 12.-13. September 2012 in Tartu .

Seminar participators were specialists and other stakeholders from Estonian, Latvian and Russian border areas biggest cities - Tartu, Rezekne and Pskov.

Peipsi CTC project manager attend the Conference «Cross-border Cooperation: the Russian Federation, the European Union and Norway», September 6-7, in Pskov.

VII Cross border Cooperation Summer School 13-17 August 2012.


Project „Promoting nature education as efficient mean of awareness raising” has been kicked off

Estonia – Latvia – Russia Cross Border Cooperation Programme  project „Promoting nature education as efficient mean of awareness raising" (the short name of the project – “People with nature”) first partner meeting (kick-off meeting) took place in Latvia, Sigulda on 26th and 27th of June. The project is financed by the  European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument 2007-2013.

Working group of the Estonian-Russian Joint Commission on the Protection and Sustainable Use of Transboundary Waters meets in Tallinn, June 26-28

Peipsi CTC began with two Estonia – Latvia – Russia cross border cooperation programme projects.

Greenman got fundation in May and People with Nature in April 2012.

Peipsi CTC is organizing World Day Festivals in Lake Peipsi communities

A new Estonia – Latvia – Russia cross border cooperation project for development of nature education started

EUBORDERREGIONS project Workshop III, takes place in Budapest, 9-12 May, organized by project Hungarian partner - TÁRKI Social Research Institute.

Launch of the “GreenMan” ENPI cross-border cooperation project

On May 1, 2012, the “GreenMan” project (full name - “ Tartu, Rezekne, Pskov: Green Management for Urban Development & Planning in EE-LV-RU Border Capitals”) has been started with the financial support of the “Estonia-Latvia-Russia” Cross-border Cooperation Programme within the European Neighborhood and Partnership Instrument 2007-2013.

Peipsi CTC signed a contract for new EE-LV-RU joint project "Greenman" - focusing on green management for urban development


EUBORDERREGIONS Working Paper: Laboratories of European integration: city-twinning in Northern Europe‏

The present work by Pertti Joenniemi and Alexander Sergunin approaches the question of cohesion and cross-border co-operation in Europe through the lens of local actors – of communities. 

Estonian-Russian-German cooperation project “Hanseatic Cities: Revived Historical Links for Modern Culture Management” final conference in Pskov, Russia; February 9-10, 2012

Merry Christmas and all the best in the new year!

Peipsi Center for Transboundary Cooperation wishes you Merry Christmas and all the best in the new year!

New publication on transboundary water management in ECCAA countries

At the end of November 2011 Peipsi CTC presented a new collection of articles - "Transboundary Water Management in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia. Role of NGOs in promoting Integrated Water Resources Managment". Special attention has been paid on Lake Peipsi, River Dniester, River Danube Lower Danube Delta, River Kura-Araks and Rivers Chu and Talas.

IX Peipsi Forum takes place on November 23-24, in Tartu

The traditionally organized at the end of each year, Peipsi Forum on transboundary cooperation, brings this week more than sixty experts and stakeholders from Estonia, Russia, Germany, Moldova and Ukraine to Tartu.

Ukrainian water specialists from Danube delta region visit Estonia on 21-25 November

The study visit takes place within the project “Working together for integrated management of water resources in the Ukrainian part of the Danube Delta Sub-basin”, implemented by Peipsi CTC and our Ukrainian partner  Center for Regional Studies.

EUBORDERREGIONS project Workshop II, takes place in Vienna, 21-22 October, organized by project Austrian partner -Institute for Advanced Studies.

Peipsi CTC is teaching project management course in Tallinn University of Technology, Tartu College

Today the 7th Ministerial Conference “Environment for Europe” opens in Astana


Peipsi CTC project manager Margit Säre participates with presentation at EU-China Civil Society Dialogue conference on Industrial Pollution and Environmental Health; on 2-25 Aug, Guangzhou, China


Summer school “Transboundary water management and sustainable development in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia” takes place on 14-18 Aug. and brings together about 30 experts from EECCA countries


Russian Hanseatic cities cultural managers visited Tartu Hanseatic days and 48th Europeade festival

20-23 July; delegation of Russian Hanseatic cities cultural managers (from Pskov, Novgorod, Belozersk) visits Tartu Hanseatic days and Europeade festival.


EUBORDERREGIONS project 1st newsletter is ready

Peipsi Center for Transboundary Cooperation participates in pan-European tourism project SLOW TOUR. If you have visited Lake Peipsi last year, please fill in the questionnaire at: http://cstt.nl/slow_tour_1.html

Peipsi CTC project manager Margit Säre was selected as a council member of the Estonian Roundtable for the Development Cooperation


Peipsi CTC project manager Margit Säre participates as an observer of Moldova general local elections.

Report on Lake Peipsi fishing communities has been completed, with the participation of Peipsi Center for Transboundary Cooperation.

In 2010 European Commission has ordered to conduct a study   on the assessment of the status, development and diversification of fisheries-dependent communities in 24 locations areas across the maritime states of the European Union. On of the selected case study regions was Lake Peipsi.

Peipsi CTC participates in SLOW TOUR project

" SLOW TOUR -Sustainable Lake Oriented Walking TOURism in Europe" project aims at analysing, collecting and listing good practices, certification procedures and network experiences for tourism in lake areas to achieve effective and consistent sustainability and competitiveness. 

SLOW TOUR -  is a EC funded project, coordinated by  association “Trasimeno – Medio Tevere” (Italy), University of Perugia (Italy), Breda University of Applied Sciences (Netherlands) and Global Nature Fund. in cooperation with 12 lake regions around Europe.

INVITATION: Summer school on Transboundary water management, 14-18 August 2011

Hereby we would like to invite you to participate in the international summer school “Transboundary water management and sustainable development in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA) countries” taking place on 14-18 August 2011 at lake Peipsi in Estonia.

23-24 March an international seminar “ New Hansa: Opportunities, Challenges and Prospects for Russian Cities” took place in Pskov, Russia

The seminar is a part of a larger project, which aims to establish a practical dialogue and exchange experiences between the Russian Hanseatic cities  and European Hanseatic cities (Tartu, Rostock). Estonia was represented by Tartu Music Festival specialists and Peipsi Center for Tarnsboundary Cooperation project manager Margit Säre.

Read more about the project

22 March is World Water Day, with the main theme of 2011 “Water for cities”

International World Water Day is held annually on 22 March, to focus international attention on the importance of freshwater.

A memorandum of understanding concerning Estonian-Russian cross-border and regional cooperation

A memorandum of understanding concerning cross-border and regional cooperation was signed by Estonian Minister for Regional Affairs Siim Kiisler and Russia's Minister for Regional Development, Viktor Basargin. A Memorandum was signed inTallinn, in the end of Mr. Basargin's two days visit to Estonia.

Peipsi CTC participates in a FP7 research project EUBORDERREGIONS

EUBORDERRREGIONS is a 4 years project, with objective 

to identify challenges to economic, social and territorial cohesion as well as regional development potentials in 9 different borderlands at the EU’s external frontiers.

Peipsi Forum VIII; 13-14 December, in Pskov

On December 13-14, it is already the 8th occasion for the Peipsi Center for Transboundary Cooperation and its partner Chudskoe Project, to organise Peipsi Forum. The traditionally organized at the end of each year before the relaxing Christmas holidays Peipsi Forum on transboundary cooperation brings together experts and stakeholders from the Estonian and Russian border areas and EU experts to exchange views on the experiences and deliberate on the future of the transboundary cooperation in the region.

Workshop on twin cities and border identities, in Narva-Jõesuu

Peipsi CTC started new project on cooperation between Hanseatic cities

Peipsi CTC started a project “ Hanseatic Cities: Revived Historical Links for Modern Culture Management”. The project aims to establish a practical cooperation platform between the Russian Hanseatic cities  and European Hanseatic cities (mainly Tartu, Viljandi, Kaunas and Rostock) ,exchange of information, experiences and good practices.

The project lead partner in Lake Peipsi Project, Pskov.

Read more:Hansa Links

INVITATION: CBC Summer Academy in Värska, Estonia, 22-27 August, 2010

We would hearby like to invite you to the international summer academy entitled “Cross border cooperation and regional sustainable development in the European border areas, on the EU Immediate Neighborhood”.

Sessions of the Estonian-Russian Joint Commission

Peipsi CTC is presented in the work of the Estonian-Russian Joint Commission on the Protection and Sustainable Use of Transboundary Waters, where Margit Säre is a member of the Working Group on Integrated Water Resources Management and which meets in Tallinn on the 16-17th of June.

Children Photography Contest for World Environmental Day

Sociedad Amigos del Lago de Chapala, AC (Friends of Lake Chapala) invites you to participate in its First International Contest of Children’s Photography

PRESSRELEASE: Workshop on transboundary water resources management

Peipsi Center for Transboundary Cooperation project manager, Margit Säre, will attend the Workshop on Transboundary Water Resources Management in Eastern and Northern Europe to be held in Kiev, Ukraine, from 27 to 29 April 2010.

Peipsi Center for Transboundary Cooperation at 13th Living Lakes Conference in Mexico

13th Living Lakes Conference on  "Lake Management - Challenges in a Changing World", takes place at lake Chapala in Mexico from the 18th to 25th of March.

Newsletter of Peipsi Forum VII

Peipsi Forum VII “Cross-border cooperation on the EU external borders: Environment, use of shared natural resources and regional development” took place in December 2-3, 2009 in Tartu, Estonia.

2009

News / pressreleases form 2009

PRESSRELEASE: Peipsi Forum VII in Tartu

On December 2-3, it is the seventh occasion for the Peipsi Center for Transboundary Cooperation to organise the Peipsi Forum in Tartu.

Round tabel on creative industries in Hiiumaa

BEN – Baltic Euroregions Network Estonian round table took place in Kärdla, Hiiumaa (the island in Western Estonia); the roundtable was held despite the stormy weather during two days, on 14th and 15th of October 2009.

INVITATION: 2-3 December PEIPSI FORUM VII in Tartu

This international round table will bring together about eighty experts and stakeholders from the EU countries and on the EU direct neighbourhood: Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden, Russia, Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine to exchange views on the experiences and deliberate on the future of the cross-border cooperation in the region.

Special issue of journal TRAMES on regional development challenges of EU border regions has been published

The special issue of TRAMES “Regional development challenges of EU border regions in the context of the interaction between the EU and countries of its immediate “neighbourhood”” Vol. 13, Issue 3, 2009, was published in September 2009.

Peipsi CTC newsletter no 5 about international higher education cross-border cooperation

Peipsi CTC has published the fifth newsletter which is dedicated to the cross-border cooperation in higher education.

INVITATION: Round-table on cross border cooperation and transboundary water management on Moldovan-Ukrainian and Estonian-Russian border areas


Peipsi CTC newsletter of cross-border cooperation


Article publiched on the Estonian-Russian cross-border cooperation


FORTHCOMING: Workshop "International higher education CBC cooperation in the Eastern Baltic Sea Region"

This is to invite you to an international workshop “International higher education cross-border cooperation in the Eastern Baltic Sea Region” that will take place in Tartu, Estonia on 15 – 16 June 2009.

Media analysis on status and development of fish farming


Print of Guide on Eco-trail in the Ramsar wetland site


Peipsi CTC Activities Report 2008 is published!

Dear friends, partners, funders,

We are pleased to introduce you our Activities Report 2008!

Moldova and Ukraine will promote transboundary water management in River Dniester region with the help of Estonian expertise

Peipsi Center for Transboundary Cooperation has recently launched a new development cooperation project aiming to raise Moldovan and Ukrainian water management expert’s capacity to effectively promote cooperation on border area water bodies, also increase public awareness about Dniester river environmental condition and –problems.

2nd International Black Sea Symposium: “The Black Sea Region: the State of Play and the Way Forward”

The International Centre for Black Sea Studies (ICBSS) hosts the 2nd International Black Sea Symposium on “The Black Sea Region: the State of Play and the Way Forward” to be held on the island of Kalymnos, Dodecanese/Greece, on 30 June - 5 July 2009.

FORTHCOMING: World Water Day 2009

In 2009, the focus of World Water Day on March 22 will be on transboundary waters - "Shared Water - Shared Opportunities".




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