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NGO Green Home on Tuesday March 10th, has organized a protest in Budva, against the announced oil and gas exploration in the Adriatic Sea. The reason for the protest was the maintenance of the Adriatic Summit on Oil and Gas, which was held at the same day in Budva, and was aimed to examine the current opportunities and challenges in the field of exploitation of oil and gas in the Adriatic region.

In Sarajevo, on February 24th 2015, there was a presentation of the Balkans Arts and Culture Fund. On that occasion were presented 7 projects that were selected to be funded from this fund. Among the selected projects is the "ACT4CITY - Independent cultural actors towards sustainable Balkan cities" that will jointly realize: Expeditio, Kotor, MNE; Ministry of space, Belgrade, RS; Creative City Network - CCN, Skopje, MK; Art Workshop Lazareti, Dubrovnik, CRO. Presentation in Sarajevo was attended by the representative of Expeditio.

For the purpose of conducting activities in the field of gender equality, Municipality of Kotor adopted a Resolution on education and the appointment of the president and members of the Council for the implementation of the Local Action Plan for achieving gender equality between men and women. EXPEDITIO representative, Tatjana Rajic, is one of the appointed members of the Council for LAPRR.

Workshop on "Practical application of Zero Waste standards in the organization of events and festivals" was held on 27.02.2015., in the Multimedia Room of the Municipality of Tivat. The workshop was organized within the project "Zero Waste - Adriatic network of events and festivals", which is implemented in Montenegro by the Municipality of Tivat. In addition to representatives of public institutions, NGOs and the media, their participation at the workshop had representatives of EXPEDITIO.

EXPEDITIO representative, Biljana Gligoric, participated as a lecturer at the conference of the Committee for Energy Efficiency, held on February 25th, 2015 in Podgorica. Committee for Energy Efficiency and Environmental Protection of Montenegrin Chamber of Commerce was presented the funding opportunities for SMEs in Horizon 2020 program, as well as the project "Management of industrial waste and cleaning".

Expeditio representative, Aleksandra Kapetanovic, is a jury mamber in the category 3 Dedicated service for the awards EU Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards. Jury meeting was held in early February in The Hague (Netherlands). Information about the awards for this year will be soon published.

Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourism, Agency for Environmental Protection and the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts in cooperation with the Municipality of Kotor organized a panel discussion: "Mapping of radon in Montenegro and improvement of the National System of Protection Against Radon" which was held in the palace Byzantines in the Old Town Kotor on 20.02.2015. In addition to representatives of local government, teachers, high school students and representatives of the media, the event was also attended by representatives of EXPEDITIO.