ECO-UNESCO Visits Malta Club for ECO-Project Launch

Following on from the success of ECO-UNESCO’s Rio+20 Transnational Youth Meeting last November, the UNESCO clubs who attended from countries such as France, Latvia, Italy and Malta all returned to their home countries to carry out environmental action projects to help improve their own countries and communities.  August marks the first of ECO-UNESCO’s return visits […]

Celebrate World Water Day 2013

World Water Day-March 22nd 2013  To mark World Water Day and highlight that 2013 is the International Year of Water Cooperation,  ECO-UNESCO, Progressio Ireland and Engineers Without Borders, in the spirit of water co-operation, are jointly organising World Water Day. This event will take place in Dublin on March 22nd and will celebrate the value […]

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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! […]

Getting Back to Basics

Transition Year Teachers’ Conference Getting Back to Basics – A skills based approach to teaching about global issues Saturday February 5th from 9.45am to 3.30am, Athlone Springs Hotel Speakers will include: Michael O’Leary, National Co-ordinator Transition Year Programme Annette Honan, National Council for Curriculum Assessment This event is organised by Comhlámh, the Debt and Development […]

Green Teen Club – “Mission Possible” Film

Congratulations to the ECO-UNESCO Green Teen Club for the recent completion of their short film production project “Mission Possible.” The exciting project included film production training and was funded by Leargas – Youth in Action. Report from the Green Teen Club:  The film project aimed to raise awareness among young people about how our day […]

Award Winning Irish Project Forms Part of Worldwide Environmental Showcase

Marking World Environment Day (5th June), the Energy Globe Award, presented worldwide to successful sustainable projects which help conserve and protect the world’s natural resources, is marking the occasion in a very creative way. Their online, worldwide campaign will see them showcase sustainable environmental solutions from 161 countries worldwide.  ECO-UNESCO, Ireland’s environmental youth organisation was […]

YEA 2010 Winners

OVERALL WINNERS: Overall Senior PROJECT: Our School Garden FROM: Youthreach, The Glen, Cork city Overall Junior PROJECT: Spring into Action FROM: Friends School, Lisburn, Co. Antrim COMHAR Sustainable Development Council, Sustainability Award PROJECT: Green Buddies FROM: Presentation Secondary School, Limerick city. TOYOTA Club of the Year Award PROJECT: The Greenhouse Gig FROM: ECO-UNESCO Peer Education […]

Upcoming Event: Road to Rio+20 – Mobilising Young People in Ireland

ECO-UNESCO hosted a group of educators from NGOs, schools and youth organisations at the Greenhouse for the Road to Rio+20 Exploratory Event on Wednesday, 18th January. The group participated in interactive activities examining the history of the original Earth Summit in 1992. They also examined the idea of sustainable development while sharing their own ideas […]