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Foresters raising publics´environmental awareness

  • AcronymSK-HU FOREST SCHOOLS
  • Call IDSKHU/1601
  • Priority AxisProtecting natural and cultural heritage
  • Specific objective1.1 To increase the attractiveness of the border area
  • Registration No.SKHU/1601/1.1/009
  • Total Project budget1,438,788.96 €
  • Total ERDF awarded1,222,970.61 €
  • Project start date01 December 2017
  • Project end date31 May 2020
  • Websitehttps://forestschools.eu/hu/
  • Project statusClosed

The ambition of the project SK-HU FOREST SCHOOLS is to promote the interest of inhabitants of Levice and Salgótarján region in the unique natural values of the borderland by means of original educational and cognitive objects in the given borderland with the emphasis on youth.

LESY SR, state enterprise, together with Hungarian foresters in IPOLY ERDŐ Zrt. successfully completed construction of a unique “Forest School OZ Levice”, located directly in the town of Levice. This way, they have brought the forest to public and offer supplementary education for all interested persons.  

The newly-built educational complexes in Levice and Somoskő as demonstrative and educational facilities together with forest teachers within the project “Foresters for Raising the Environmental Awareness of the Public” (SKHU/1601/1.1/009) present the forest and foresters´ work to the target groups on the total area of more than 10 000 m2.

Thanks to the project “Forest School OZ Levice” was constructed on the Slovak side with the total area of 4 100 m2, the largest of its kind and as a unique centre of forest pedagogy and environmental education in Slovakia. The project innovation lies in the interconnection of theoretical education at schools with practical demonstrations from forests and forestry in the new forest school complexes. It has an excursion-educational purpose for pre-school and school-age children accompanied by forest teachers. The concept is based on field trips, practical work in workshops, tactile and visual demonstrations of surfaces or samples of forest features. The complex, with its interior useful area of more than 1 000 m2, offers places for dioramas, creative workshops, a drawing room, a tree hall, an educational room with a terrace. In exterior, the forest school is surrounded by a mini-arboretum with most frequent tree species and bushes to be found in Slovak forests, wooden arbour was built and the complex is supplied with information panels. In front of the Forest school, a green pavement is bringing visitors to the Forest school with wooden facilities for games and relax not only for children but also adult visitors. The “Forest School OZ Levice” attracts attention by its innovative concept, location in the town and apart from visual observations and education features offers possibilities for practical skills development.

Similarly, at the Hungarian side “Visitor Centre and Forest School” was built in the Hungarian border area nearby Salgótarján in Somoskő and it has completed the network of similar character facilities in Hungary at the area of more than 5 900 m2.
The project included events for general public. The professional public has attended the exchange of experiences in the form of excursions for forest teachers around Hungarian forest schools and the forest pedagogy course for 20 forest pedagogues. For the children and youth target group various events has been organised during the project (Foresters and Sun, Children´s Hubert, Children - Foresters´ Friends) to recognize a forest in the playful form and through demonstrations of what a forest hides. In addition, educational exchanges has been organized during which children from cross border region basic schools have visited partners countries and have the possibility to get the experience about the foresters´ work and the forest. This way, the project brings the natural environment as a heritage closer to general public and offers a new product absenting at the social scale. Project has established positive relationship to perceive the nature, understand its functioning and ensure its protection.

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Partnership

Lead Beneficiary / ERDF awarded

LESY Slovenskej republiky, štátny podnik

Banská Bystrica, Námestie SNP 8 975 66

www.lesy.sk

614,559.38 €

Beneficiary 1 / ERDF awarded

IPOLY ERDŐ Zártkörűen Működő Részvénytársaság

Balassagyarmat, Bajcsy u. 10. 2660

www.ipolyerdo.hu

608,411.23 €

Locations of investment

Levice

Somoskő

Calendar

Child Hubert - 2019/05/21

The project activity " Child Hubert" of the „Foresters raising publics´ environmental awareness“ project will be hold in Žuhračka (Slovakia) on 21st of May 2019 at 10:30 am in the joint organization of LESY SR and Ipoly Erdő Zrt.

  • Location: Žuhračka
  • Project acronym: SK-HU FOREST SCHOOLS
  • Project registration number: SKHU/1601/1.1/009
  • Website: www.lesy.sk
  • GPS coordinates: 48° 20' 23.1549045" N 18° 40' 0.2148628" E
  • Event organized by: LESY SR, štátny podnik
  • Contact person: Ing. Nikoleta Nozdrovická
  • Phone number: +421 908 901 949
  • E-mail address: nikoleta.nozdrovicka@lesy.sk
  • Language of event: Slovak
  • Interpretation: no
  • Registration is needed: yes
  • SKHU/1601/1.1/009 (5)

Children the forester´s friends - 2019/05/10

The project activity "Children the forester´s friends" of the „Foresters raising publics´ environmental awareness“ project will be hold in Levice (Slovakia) on 10th of May 2019 at 10:30 am in the winter stadion in the joint organization of LESY SR and Ipoly Erdő Zrt.

  • Location: Levice
  • Project acronym: SK-HU FOREST SCHOOLS
  • Project registration number: SKHU/1601/1.1/009
  • Website: www.lesy.sk
  • GPS coordinates: 48° 13' 11.8649059" N 18° 35' 38.6003499" E
  • Event organized by: LESY SR, štátny podnik
  • Contact person: Ing. Nikoleta Nozdrovická
  • Phone number: +421 908 901 949
  • E-mail address: nikoleta.nozdrovicka@lesy.sk
  • Language of event: Slovak
  • Interpretation: no
  • Registration is needed: yes
  • SKHU/1601/1.1/009 (5)

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Foresters successfully finished the Establishing a Unique Forest School Project.

  • SKHU/1601/1.1/009 (5)

Child Hubert

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As part of the one-day project activity, children from Slovakia and Hungary could become acquainted with the life in the forest and the work of foresters. Forest pedagogues from Levice brought them the forest and informed their prepared forest schools of the realized cross-border project. Through various entertaining activities and competitions, they could test their knowledge about fauna and flora. 

  • SKHU/1601/1.1/009 (5)