Welcome to the CERI webpage!
Carpathian EcoRegion Initiative is a coalition of NGOs and research institutes working towards a common vision for conservation and sustainable development of the Carpathians.
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CERI member NGOs and research institutes
• Czech Republic
Czech Environmental Partnership Foundation (EPCE– Czech Republic)
The Czech Environmental Partnership is the most important Czech foundation supporting environmental projects in all regions of the Czech Republic. Together with five other foundations from Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia, the CEPF is a member of the Association Environmental Partnership for Sustainable Development. The Environmental Partnership's mission is to assist NGOs, communities and other partners in care of the environment and to stimulate sustainable development, cross-sector co-operation and public participation in civil society. The CEPF is a founding member of CERI. Its role within the Carpathian EcoRegion Initiative is a National Focal Point for the Czech Republic
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Hnuti Duha Olomouc
The Hnuti Duha Olomouc is a NGO dealing with the conservation of large carnivores, especially in the Landscape protection area Beskydy.
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Bile Karpaty Education and Information Centre
Education and Information Centre Bílé Karpaty, o.p.s. is a non-profit organisation. The founders are: the town of Veselí nad Moravou, the local branch "Bílé Karpaty" of the Czech Union for Nature Conservation, and the Administration of Protected Landscape Areas in the Czech Republic. It organises a broad range of activities (environmental education programmes, trainings, field excursions, eco-counselling), preferably in the region of Morava. EIC Bile Karpaty is a member of PAVUČINA - Association of environmental education centres and STEP ČR – a network of eco-counsellors.
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Civil Association Beskydcan
The Association focuses the activities at raising environmental public awareness in the region of Moravskoslezské Beskydy Mts through environmental education in Muchovice (e.g. eco-farm, field trips, excursions), implementation of management measures in nature reserves and eco-counselling.
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• Hungary
Central and East European Working Group for the Enhancement of Biodiversity - CEEWEB
CEEWEB is an international network of non-governmental organizations in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) region. The mission of the network is the conservation of biodiversity through the promotion of sustainable development. CEEWEB is a founding member of CERI.
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E-misszió Environmental and Nature Conservation Association
The E-misszió Environmental Association works for a sustainable natural and built environment, in which the local society lives, relying on natural, social and economic resources. To achieve their goals they mostly use education, pedagogy and awareness raising; practical activities for improving the state of the natural and built environment; representation of interests and direct, peaceful actions. E-misszió is a National Focal Point for Hungary.
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Ecological Institute for Sustainable Development
The Institute has a strong professional background dealing with environment and development (e.g. regional planning, rural development, education, environmental policy, biodiversity).
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• Poland
Foundation for the Support of Ecological Initiatives
The Foundation works on wild life and habitat conservation. Further more, they act as environmental teachers and run programmes with waste recycling and biodiversity. The Foundation hosts the NFP of Poland.
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Polish Environmental Partnership Foundation
The Polish EPCE is an independent foundation set up in 1997 to support sustainable development at the local or community level in Poland through building partnerships between business, government and NGOs, delivering good practice, technical assistance and financing and linking together community-based initiatives and projects into national and international networks and programs. Together with five other foundations from Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia, the EPCE is a member of the Environmental Partnership consortium.
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The Polish Tatra Society
promotes ecotourism in the Carpathians, organizes meetings to promote and lobby for the protection of the natural and cultural heritage of the Tatra Mountains.
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Foundation for Eastern Carpathian Biodiversity Conservation
Activities of the Foundation focus mostly on support for protected areas, conservation of plant and animal genetical resources, protection of habitats and landscape structures, integration of nature conservation with the economic activities of the local populations through promotion of sustainable nature-based toursim. Activities include own ECBC grant programmes involving the three countries in transboundary cooperation and support local projects as well as own projects implemented by the Foundation.
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• Romania
Association of Ecotourism in Romania - AER
AER has the mission to promote the concept and development of ecotourism for the support of nature conservation, local communities in natural areas, and for raising the standard of ecotourism related services - as well as promotion of the nature as an essential element of the Romanian tourist destination image.
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Association "Milvus Group"
The Milvus Group is a non-governmental, non-profit organization, dedicated to bird and nature protection, acting in the fields of conservation, education, research and advisory in order to make Romania a better place for birds, wildlife and people.
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Amicii Salvamont Association
Amicii Salvamont Association is a non-governmental organization, which aims at the protection of the natural heritage through sustainable development and ecotourism.
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Societatea de Stiinte din Cluj
The main topic of Societatea de Stiinte din Cluj is the protection of cave habitats and fauna in Romania. They set up the national Natura 2000 network on cave habitats and established a database of cave fauna with information on endemics, the status of the protection and vulnerability.
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Transylvania University of Brasov - Faculty of Silviculture and Forest Engineering
This academic institution promotes the forest certification in the Carpathians, sustainable forest management, wildlife and biodiversity conservation via the forest education and research/technical assistance activity. They Faculty of Silviculture and Forest Engineering is a founding member of CERI and acts as the National Focal Point for Romania.
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Kogayon Association
The Kogayon Association's activities are concerned to the environmental protection at a local and national scale, the promotion of tourism and culture, ecology education. The association was founded in this purpose at the initiative and with the resources of a group of students from the Faculties of Geology and Geophysics within the University of Bucharest in 2003.
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Carpati Foundation
The foundation is situated in Brasov and deals with large carnivores in the Carpathians.
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Apuseni Mountain Club
The Club contributes to conservation of the Natural Reservations “Piatra Cetii”, “Cheile Tecşeştilor” and “Poiana Narciselor”, to raise awareness for environment issues in the central and southern Trascău Mountains and to provide environmental education the for younger generation. The Apuseni Mountain Club from Cluj Napoca is an active member of environmental NGO coalition „ECO CLUJ” and of the Speleological National Society.
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• Serbia
ECOLIBRI-BIONET
ECOLIBRI-BIONET is an independent, non-governmental, non-profit organization dedicated to biodiversity conservation and sustainable development in Serbia and Montenegro. The agency is the only expert NGO in Serbia and Montenegro that is member of IUCN (The World Conservation Union) since 2000 and therefore, has the capacity and experience to contribute to the development of a Carpathian Ecological Network. Besides, Ecolibri-Bionet is the National Focal Point for Serbia for CERI (Carpathians EcoRegion Initiative).
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Association of Young Researchers Bor
The Association of Young Researchers of Bor (AYR Bor) is a non-governmental, non-profitable organisation established in 1976. The basic missions of this NGO are the development of scientific and research work throughout ecological education and rising ecological awareness, protection and development of the living environment, preservation of the biological diversity, and sustainable development of the local community. AYR is the organiser of the scientific meeting about protection of natural values, international voluntary working camp, research on bio- and geo-diversity of the Eastern Serbia area, water-quality, traditional heritage etc.
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Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies of the Belgrade University
The Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies of the Belgrade University is a science & research and higher education public establishment founded by the University of Belgrade and the Parliament of Republic of Serbia in 1970, with the aim to promote research and postgraduate education of young scientists in borderline disciplines and multidisciplinary areas of science and research. The scientific staff of the Centre is engaged in areas such as biophysics, neurosciences, biomedical engineering, environmental protection, material sciences, surface phenomena and electrochemistry, artificial intelligence and information technologies.
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Ecological Society ENDEMIT
The Ecological Society ENDEMIT is a non-governmental, non-profit and politically independent organization established in 2000 by students of ecology and environmental protection at the Faculty of Biology of Belgrade University. The goals are protection and improvements of the environment, preservation of biological diversity and introduction of sustainable development concept through overall society. This is to be achieved through field research activities, education, information dissemination as well as through national, regional and global cooperation and networking.
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Ecological Society of Kladovo
The Ecological Society of Kladovo is a non-governmental, non-profit and politically independent organization dealing with biodiversity conservation and sustainable development. They cooperate with DEF (Danube Environmental Foundation).
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Birds of Prey Protection Fund
Main activities of the Fund include research, environmental protection, monitoring and public awareness of birds.
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Saša Marinković
Gorun – ethno-ecological Movement
The Movement deals with the protection of natural and culture values in the Majdanpek region, development of eco-tourism and organic agriculture
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Radomir A. Krisanovic
• Slovakia
DAPHNE - Institute of Applied Ecology
In 1993 a group of young environmentalists had the idea to create an organisation that focused on the professional development of applied environmental research. DAPHNE - Institute of Applied Ecology is a non-profit organization that, since its establishment, has expanded from a scientific organisation focused on applied ecology and research, to a nature conservation organisation with activities aimed at increasing the public's knowledge and understanding of the environment. DAPHNE is a founding member of CERI and hosts the National Focal Point and the Chair of CERI, Jan Seffer.
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Ekopolis Foundation - Slovak Environmental Partnership Foundation
The vision of this organization is an advanced civic society with citizens realizing their responsibility for societal development and environmental issues. Societies with citizens, who are interested in participation in public policy, do not hesitate to adopt a critical attitude and who help the system of sustainable development. Together with five other foundations from Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and the EPCE is a member of the Environmental Partnership consortium.
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Institute of Botany of Slovak Academy of Sciences
Institute of Botany, Slovak Academy of Sciences was established in 1963. The scientific activities of the Institute are aimed at the research on plant cover of the territory of Slovakia as related to the flora and vegetation of the Central Europe and the research on structure and physiological functions of plant roots, and on stress physiology.
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Raptor Protection of Slovakia - RPS
The RPS is a public, non-profit, non-governmental organization dealing with research and conservation of birds of prey in Slovakia, founded in 1974. The mission of RPS is to contribute to the conservation of biodiversity through protection of birds of prey and their habitats.
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Slovak Wildlife Society
Main focus of all the activities is on the long-term conservation of large carnivors, especially wolves and bears. The Society uses a variety of methods, including scientific research, environmental education, practical implementation of conflict prevention measures, publication artistic expression and ecotourism.
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FSC Slovakia
Main activities aim to support and promote environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial and economically viable management of forests.
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• Ukraine
Ecological Club "Carpathians"
The club is a non-governmental organization founded in 1996. The main activities are protection biodiversity and habitats in the Carpathians as well as ecological education. The organization won a small grants fund by WWF to conduct the project "Improvement of infrastructure for sustainable development of ecological tourism on the territory of the Carpathian Biosphere Reserve". The Organization hosts the National Focal Point for Ukraine.
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Yaroslav Dovhanych, Vasyl Pokynchereda
Association "Our Home"
The association is a non-governmental organization dealing with biodiversity and large carnivores. "Our Home" won a small grants project by WWF DCP to carry out a project on Brown bears in the Carpathians.
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The Carpathian Biosphere Reserve - CBR
The Carpathian Biosphere Reserve belongs to the Ukrainian State and is a site of the Nature-Protection Fund of the Ukraine, thus a nature-protected scientific-research institution of international significance. The scientific staff of the reserve gives much attention to the environmental grounds development of the natural ecosystems preservation and their management methods in the Carpathian region.
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Charity Information Centre "Green Dossier"
Green Dossier is an information and publishing centre established in May 1994. Main activities: providing objective environmental and social information through mass-media and education on environmental journalism; preparing materials for own publications and various mass-media; consulting and other information services for journalists investigating environmental issues; publicity of environmental non-profit groups and their activities.Special environmental-cultural event for raising awareness on the Carpathian Convention: International world music and land art festival "Sheshory" organised in close cooperation with Ivano-Frankivsk regional state administration, NGOs from Kosiv, local community of Sheshory village; held from 2003 in summer time, more than 5000 participants from all Carpathian countries.
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Institute of Ecology of the Carpathian National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
The academic institute was founded in 1991. The main purpose of its organization is to carry out the complex fundamental ecological investigation of biotic systems on different organisation levels in connection with their efficient exploitation, management of their structural and functional organization, prognosis and protection. The institute consists of five different departments (Ecosystemology, Population Ecology of Plants, Nature Ecosystems Protection and Plant Ecomorphogenesis)
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Carpathian Ecological Club „Ruthenia“
The Club carries out social and scientific activity in the field of environment protection of the Carpathian Region, aimed to studies, proper management, conservation and restoration of its natural ecosystems biodiversity. The Club is an organization of the regional level, it includes 8 local groups, covering the whole Transcarpathia with their activities
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Eco Pravo-Kyiv Environmental Law
Main types of the activities include development of the public hearing procedure in the local communities, legal advise to local NGOs on environmental rights and capacity building, trainings on public hearing procedures. An actor in international environmental protection processes including the Pan-European „Environment for Europe“ process.
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Boris Vasylkivsky
State Museum of Natural History, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
The museum is a chain in the scientific, research and organizing structure of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) of Ukraine and a constituent part of the Department of General Biology of the NAS of Ukraine. The mission of the museum is to develop scientific principles of natural history museology, to create, enrich and preserve its collections, to study biological diversity and ecology of some groups of modern and fossil flora and fauna in Western Ukraine, to conduct scientific, educational and popularizing activities.
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• International
WWF DCP (Danube Carpathian Programme)
The WWF Danube-Carpathian Programme has worked in the region since 1988 to promote the conservation, restoration and sustainable management of nature for the benefit of both people and environment. The work is primarily focused on freshwater and forest resources in the Danube River Basin and Carpathian Mountains. The programme is a founding member of CERI and hosts the Secretariat and the Vice Chair.
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Other NGOs and institutes
• Avalon (Promoting Sustainable Rural Development in Central & Eastern Europe): www.avalon.nl (English language)
• Carpathian Foundation: www.carpathianfoundation.org (English, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian language versions)
• CIPRA International (Commission for Protection of the Alps): www.cipra.org (French, German, Italian and Slovenian language versions)
• ECNC (European Centre for Nature Conservation), Tilburg: www.ecnc.nl (English language)
• Euromontana: www.euromontana.org (English and French language versions)
• EUROPARC Federation: www.europarc.org (English language)
• European Environmental Bureau, Brussels: www.eeb.org (English Language)
• European Observatory of Mountain Forests: www.eomf.org (English and French language versions)
• International Ecotourism Society: www.ecotourism.org (English language)
• Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP) UK: www.ieep.org.uk (English language)
• IUCN (The World Conservation Union): www.iucn.org (English language)
• Large Carnivore Initiative for Europe (LCIE): www.lcie.org (English language)
• Mountain Forum: www.mtnforum.org (English language)
• Regional Environmental Centre for CEE: www.rec.org (English language)
• World Conservation Monitoring Centre: www.unep-wcmc.org (English language)
• World Tourism Organisation: www.world-tourism.org (English, Spanish and Russian language versions)
Inter-governmental and other agencies
• Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe: www.mcpfe.org
• Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD): www.biodiv.org Earth Summit 2002
• European Environmental Agency: www.eea.eu.int
• FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN): www.fao.org/biodiversity
• OECD (Organisation For Economic Co-Operation And Development): www.oecd.org
• United Nations Environment Programme: www.unep.org
• National Parks Worldwide: www.main.amu.edu.pl/~zbzw/ph/pnp/swiat.htm A useful information source on national parks around the world including an extensive links page.