The Civic Education Department of the International Elias Canetti Society ended its summer educational program with a two-day training of the team at the Flaming Danube Festival in Tutrakan on August, 4th-5th. The training aimed to access the summer achievements of our Eco Academy for students and of the Children’s Eco Club “Ela”, in which for yet another year at the Regional library “Ljuben Karavelov” were trained the youngest members of our society, as well as to plan the follow-up activities on the “Man, Technology, Environment” project.

During the summer months the International Elias Canetti Society managed to include in its training programs students from all age groups, as for the youngest we organized four-week interactive trainings related to environmental protection in June, July and the first week of August. In these trainings the bigger students participated as volunteers and shared their experience from the Eco Academies organized by the IECS last year. The end of the activities was marked by an eco competition, the construction of wastewater treatment plant and the participants made their own greeting cards from recycled paper, on which they wrote their personal messages for environmental protection. Also the children created with great care a zoolexicon, a model of their city of the future, dinosaur zoo and many different paintings with natural materials. The reward for their hard work will be an autumn exhibition with their works at the Regional library.

Parallel to these activities the summer edition of the Eco Academy for high-school students (7th to 9th grade) took place at the Directorate of Nature Park Rusenski Lom. In two-weeks (from the end of July to the first week of August) two different groups of young people acquired basic knowledge and skills in the fields of eco politics and media, eco technology and eco entrepreneurship. Through interactive forms of teaching combining practical and theoretical elements and field studies (in the Brjag daily newspaper desk and the Regional Health Inspection) the students had the opportunity to bring diversity into their holiday routine with some very useful activities.