Schools and universities have great potential to serve as living laboratories for education of generations that will accept environment protection as a part of their everyday life. School and university campuses are specific urban units because they remind in their form and their function of miniature settlements. Strategies for planning and designing university campus, which is an open space classroom in its broadest sense, will be considered through discussions on the principles of sustainability, on LEED protocol for settlements and through examples from the practice. A lecture on the topic of “Campus as a Miniature Town: University Complex Design” will be held in Novi Sad, at the Faculty of Technical Sciences (Department for Architecture Lecture hall Ranko Radović), on April 19, 2012 at 10.15h. The lecturer is Jelena Pejković, the representative of Expeditio in Serbia.

Expeditio news for the March 2012 can be read here.

Action "Earth Hour" is organized this year around the world. On Saturday, March 29th, 2014, starting at 20.30h, citizens of our planet who want to contribute to environmental protection, will turn off the lights for 60 minutes. Expeditio also supports this action. We invite all citizens, institutions, businesses companies and all interested parties to join the initiative and thus contribute to the preservation of our planet. 

Akcija "Sat za planetu" organizuje se i ove godine širom svijeta. U subotu 23. marta 2013. godine sa početkom u 20.30h, građani/ke naše planete koji žele da doprinesu zaštiti životne sredine, ugasiće svjetla na 60 minuta. Expeditio podržava akciju i ove godine. Pozivamo i sve građane/ke, institucije, preduzeća i sve zainteresovane, da se pridružie inicijativi i na taj način doprinesu očuvanju naše planete.

“Earth Hour 2012” will be organized worldwide on Saturday, 31 March 2012, from 8.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. At this hour, citizens worldwide will turn off their lights for one hour to raise awareness about the need to take action on climate change. In Montenegro, the event will be organized by the NGO Green Home from Podgorica, in cooperation with partners from different Montenegrin towns. Expeditio supports the action. We invite all the citizens, institutions, households and businesses to participate in the event by turning off their lights, contributing in that way to protecting our planet.

Radio Free Europe’s Diary for the last week was written by the architect Biljana Gligorić, programme director at Expeditio, Centre for Sustainable Development in Kotor. The diary can be listen to and read here.

EXPEDITIO representative, Biljana Gligorić, participated in the National Conference for secondary school students focusing on the European integration process, organized within the project “Enjoying European Values for Young People”. The conference was held in Budva from 23^rd to 26^th March 2012. In addition to being a visiting lecturer at the panel discussing the topics of environmental protection and sustainable development, Biljana moderated a working group treating the same subjects. The conference was organized by the NGO Juventas from Podgorica, in cooperation with the project partners. Additional information on Juventas can be found here.

The Balkan Xpedition begins soon within the CORNERS project. The Xpedition will include 30 artists and researchers from seven European countries who are exploring the outer regions and coasts of Europe in search of stories and inspiration for their new work.  This joint venture “across the hilly Balkans” begins in Zagreb on 15 April 2012 and ends in Rijeka on 29 April 2012.