YEA PCA 2013
People’s Choice Award 2013 Voting for the People’s Choice Award 2013 has now closed!! Thanks to all of you who took part in the fun and voted!! Our winner will be announced on May 22nd at our Young Environmentalist Awards and Showcase Ceremony and the winner will be listed on our website also! […]
Toyota Clubs in Action Showcase
As part of the Youth Forum, the Clubs in Action showcase will be appearing in The Greenhouse during November. This programme, which is run in conjunction with Toyota, has provided seed grants to over 20 ECO-UNESCO Clubs around the country to encourage their local action initiatives.
Waste Matchers Award – New Young Environmentalist Award Exclusive to Cork
ECO-UNESCO, Ireland’s environmental education and youth organisation are proud to introduce the www.wastematchers.com Award kindly sponsored by Cork County Council. This award is a brand new category in the 2012 Young Environmentalist Awards and is exclusive to young people from Cork City and County. Young people are encouraged to look at ways of reusing items […]
IEN Biodiversity Showcase Launched by Minister
ECO-UNESCO was delighted to welcome Jimmy Deenihan TD, Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (pictured) who launched the IEN Biodiversity Exhibition in the Greenhouse last Tuesday, 30th November. This exhibition includes 14 displays from a variety of organisations from around the country who have carried out projects and events to raise awareness and understanding […]
ECO-Youth Choices X-Hale Forum
At the end of September, a group of ECO-UNESCO’s ECO-Youth Choices Peer Educators (youth coordinators) saw the culmination of months of hard work during their ‘X-HALE Forum; our community, our future’. The project, in conjunction with the Irish Cancer Society, focused on the environmental, social and economic impacts of cigarettes, from their source and production […]
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ECO-UNESCO Launches Green Pathways Programme
Green Pathways – a new training programme as part of the new Momemtum initiative ECO-UNESCO, Ireland’s leading environmental education and youth organization, announces its newest initiative called Green Pathways aimed at training and progressing unemployed people who are under 25s onto employment in the green economy. The programme, part of the newly launched FAS […]
ECO-UNESCO’S Youth Exploring Rio+20
ECO-UNESCO welcomed young people from across Europe to join policy makers and experts at the Youth Exploring Rio+20 – A UNESCO Clubs Transnational Youth Meeting at the Greenhouse Young people from France, Italy, Latvia, and Malta have come to Ireland to meet key politicians and policy makers, to have their voices heard about how to […]
Tenacious Trees launch their short animation ‘Love the Trees’
ECO-UNESCO Peer Education Programme – Latest News The YSD peer education group successfully launched their animation drawing attention to the importance of trees worldwide and the impact deforestation has on. The group: Alia, Jing, Eoin, Alacque and Robert who received a grant from ECO-UNESCO’s Clubs in Action Fund supported by Toyota have been painstakingly working […]
International News Young Italian visitors take ECO-Action in Dublin!
A group of 19 young people from Italy visited Ireland for a study visit to complete a customised 2 week ECO-UNESCO Community Development Programme. As part of the programme, the young people completed environmental action projects including public environmental awareness surveys. We were highly impressed with the level of enthusiasm, dedication and positive energy that they brought to their […]
