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Study
Tour for the Macedonian Ministry of Environment/GOPA on Public
Awareness in Environmental Issues in Austria:
Organisation and guiding of 7 Macedonian experts from 15-21
November 2003 to Austrian institutions (government, city, national
parks, NGOs)
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| One
of the Viennese waste collection points for private waste
that cannot be put into the regular garbage boxes. |
Urban
river restoration and local citizen involvement at the Liesing
creek project. |
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| WWF's
environment education center "Seewinkelhof" |
WWF
includes nature experience into school education camps. |
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Expert Training for RO Industries (incl.
mining) and Environment Protection Authorities (sector water
pollution): Initiation, organisation and execution of a
9 days training (11-19 Sept. 2003) for 11 Romanian experts to
Styria and Vienna (paper, mining and metal industries; communal
WWTPs; provincial, federal and intl. institutions (See
the Article in Danube Watch 1/2004).
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| Visit
of Romanian experts at the wastewater treatment plant of
Boehler steel plant in Kapfenberg. |
The
Sappi paper plant's WWTP is partly covered to prevent emissions
of bad odour. |
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| Erzberg
ore mine: Visitor drive up the open pit on a huge truck. |
Erzberg
ore mine: Discussion with a former miner on underground
mine water quality. |
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| Visit
of the laboratory of the Styrian environment alarm service. |
Visit
of the lab for special substances at the Austrian Federal
Environment Agency. |
The
seepage of the Paulisturz waste deposit is cleaned by reverse-osmosis. |
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| Lecture
on waste management techniques by Prof. Karl Lorber, university
Leoben. |
First-hand
information of Danube basin water management at the ICPDR,
Vienna. |
Wrap
up of the Austrian study tour at a workshop in Vienna. |
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Dniepr River Basin Expert Training (UNDP/GEF
& IDRC/Canada): 
Organisation of a one-week training programme
for nine biodiversity experts from Ukraine, Russia and Belarus.
The Dniepr as the third largest river in Europe is subject to
multiple impacts from high industrialisation and excessive river
exploitation. Training objective was to learn from the experience
made in the Danube basin on transboundary water management (e.g.
visits at the ICPDR, the Austrian Ministry for Agriculture and
Environment, the Institute for Water Quality, the city of Vienna'
water engineering department and the National Park "Danube
Floodplains".
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4 days for the Naturlandstiftung Saarland in
9/99. Field trip by bus with a multiple programme (walks
and boat trips into wetlands, cultural evenings, meeting with
local people) for a group of 35 environmentalists, presenting
local forms of wetland management and inter-sectoral/cross-border
co-operation in the region South Moravia, western Slovakia,
Slovak & Austrian Danube and Lake Neusiedl.
- 0.5 days ICPDR Secretariat in 10/99:
Guided boat trip through the Danube floodplains national
park.
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Organised Study Tours
