Peter Lengyel and Green Valley Assotiation invite you to Danube River Basin International Youth Research Camp 2010!

The Youth Research Camp will take place in ROMANIA, Sighetu Marmatiei, Maramures between 14-21 July 2010 in co-operation with Green Valley Association (GVA).

Young people from EU countries of the Danube River Basin can participate in this; at least 15 but no more than 20 participants. The age of participants must be between 18 and 30 years. The camp will be free - the participants only have to pay their own travel expenses. Lodgings in tents.

The target of the camp is research of wetland related biodiversity in Maramures area. The proposed programme is including biological sample collection by boat trip on wild rivers of Iza and Viseu, researching flora and fauna of peatland lakes in Carpathians (Taul Morarenilor, Taul lui Dumitru, Tau de la Hoteni – this places are in remote areas, difficultly accesible by offroad vehicles to awalking distance), and biodiversity survey of Teplita lake in the floodplain of the Tisa river. The foscus will be on macroinvertebrates of the wetlands, mostly dragonflies, but also fish, algal biodiversity etc. Participants will work in groups. Each group will have an experienced leader; an expert who will work together with the participants. Our goals are to improve participants’ field work skills, promote the importance of field work and to improve the nature site.

If you want to participate please write to: lengyelpeter@yahoo.com, ardelean_alina2005@yahoo.com  and idmconsultingsm@yahoo.com. Please inform us: arrival and departure time, are you vegetarian, your telephone and e-mail address. This information should be submitted asap but not later then 27 June 2010.

The aim of the Congress is to contribute to transforming political commitments into concrete actions by developing recommendations towards effectively integrating biological and cultural diversity into development cooperation strategies and programmes. The Congress is therefore not an event by environmental specialists for environmental specialists, but rather aspires to bring together civil society, interested citizens, representatives of local populations, politicians, development cooperation agencies and environmentalists to jointly pave the way forward and enhance the conservation of biological and cultural diversity as a key basis for sustainable development.

The congress takes place from 19th 23rd July in Montreal, Canada

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