News from the ENV.net
 

EU Progress report,
ENV.net reaction on Chapter 27

The EU progress reports for candidate and potential candidate countries were released on 8th October. ENV.net as a network covering four candidate countries (Albania, Macedonia, Serbia and Turkey), one potential candidate country (Kosovo) and two CSOs from EU countries did a quick scan of the environmental situation (Chapter 27) in the respective partner countries.

According to the EC, countries have made little or no progress in the field of environment (approximation of legislation to acquis and implementation) and climate change. Reading these reports, we can see three main directions in countries’ approach and commitments towards regarding approximation of their environmental legislation to the EU acquis: (i) Some countries are at very early stages in aligning the legislation to the acquis; (ii) In other countries the process of harmonizing the legislation to acquis is still not completed and (iii) in Turkey the story is completely different, as the new legislation being continuously adopted is not at all in compliance with EU Directives.

For more details concerning each country, please click here.
 

All countries: ENV.net training programme

1) Environment in the EU: funding mechanisms and policies processes, new training in Skopje. As part of the ENV.net agenda, a new training is planned for the 14th-15th November. The training will touch themes as EU programming system, calls for proposals mechanism, action design and EU environmental policies (read more on ENV.net training programme). For application, click here.
2) Distance learning courses:
a)“Social media, Activism and participation”, The ENV.net course on social media (read more):  Next courses: 4th November – 18th November 2014 and 9th December – 23rd December.
b) “Get funding from the European Union”, the new courses developed by ENV.net regarding the EU as resource partner (read more).  Next courses 4th November – 18th November 2014 and 25th November – 9th December 2014.
To take part, interested participants should first register to the ENV.net e-learning platform here and then choose the course to attend from the course catalogue. Further inquiries about the course may be sent to env.net-helpdesk@puntosud.org (or click here).


In-country news: ENV.net in action

Albania: Two initiative developed by Co-PLAN:
1) ENV.net project supported the international workshop “SKIN”- Transparent and Translucent building skin as Multilayered, Multipurpose and Filtering system. Read more.
2) Co-PLAN in cooperation with the Municipality of Tirana and IFC, under the ENV.net project, funded by European Commission organized the Roundtable “On Integrated Management of Solid Waste in the City of Tirana”, read more.

Turkey: Coal is not the solution!  In 2014, Turkey witnessed two horrible coal mine accidents. 18 miners are still trapped in a mine flooded with underground water reserves on 28.10.2014. As TEMA, we join the Global Action Day against Coal and call the government for urgent action and divestment from coal as source of energy. Coal is not clean, it is not safe. Coal doesn’t provide the solution. Read more.
 
Macedonia: â€œFor today and future generation”, the first Conference of the Platform for Green Macedonia, established with the support of ENV.net project, was held on 24th October in Veles with more than 50 participants from the NGO sector, national and local governments . Read more.
 
Serbia: ENV.net training session in Serbia. Last training of the ENV.net programme, titled “Environment in the European Union: Funding Mechanisms and Policy Processes” was held in Belgrade on 22nd -23rd October 2014. Overall aim of this course was to encourage environmental NGOs to be involved in the EU processes and become more competent while doing so. The course consisted of two modules delivered by ENV.net staff. Read more.

Kosovo: Two regional workshops were organised by ATRC, ENV.net partner in Kosovo, on 9th and 10th of October in the Municipalities of Ferizaj and Podujeva on the theme “Forest management and measures dealing with the prevention of illegal logging.” Read more here and here.
 

Q: “which documents shall an organisation fill to apply for an EU call?"
 
A: “Whenever applying to a call for proposals, applicants should care of using the standard documents: the Application Form, (Annex A), the Budget, (Annex B) and the Logframe matrix (Annex C). Annex A is composed by 2 parts, parts A (concept note) and part B (full application). Only the templates annexed to the specific guidelines have to be used. (In case of incoherency between the annexes template and a narrative indications in the guidelines, the templates annexes have to be considered. Annexes A; B; C; are published with the CfP guidelines on the CfP webpage. Even if they look similar, guidelines and annexed documents and templates are specific for each CfP.
The application from mainly comprises the following parts: a concept note (Part A of Annex A) and a section about the action proposed / Full application (Part B of Annex A). Tha Part B is also composed by a section about the applicant, a section about implementing partners and associates (if any) and a section about the associates (if any)”.