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Celebrating Cooperation Day 2025: Inspiring youth across the Polish-German Border

On 2 October 2025, the West Pomeranian Provincial Landscape Park Administration hosted a special event for Cooperation Day 2025, bringing together schoolchildren from both Poland and Germany to explore cross-border collaboration in protected areas. The initiative aimed to raise awareness among young people about environmental protection, European cooperation programmes, and opportunities for personal and social development.

 

Organisers:

 

  • MoPa – Monitoring of protected areas, focusing on biodiversity and sustainable development: Norman Ebert (Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development), Wojciech Zbaraszewski, Dawid Dawidowicz (West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin)

  • Regional Contact Point – Department of Territorial Cooperation and Tourism, Marshal's Office of the West Pomeranian Province: Anna Czerniawska

  • Regional Contact Point Interreg: Dana Jesswein

 

The event encouraged openness, tolerance, and active engagement, inspiring students to participate in international projects while learning about the importance of integration, language skills, and joint action on the Polish-German border.

 

Programme Highlights:

  • 9:30 – 9:45: Introduction to solving challenges in protected areas in the Euroregion Pomerania, presented by Wojciech Zbaraszewski (MoPA project).

  • 9:45 – 10:00: Volunteering as a way to connect with neighbouring countries and support environmental protection – Norman Ebert.

  • 10:00 – 10:15: “Erasmus – the key to Europe” – Dawid Dawidowicz.

  • 10:15 – 10:30: Break and integration time.

  • 10:30 – 11:00: Intercultural workshops – Dana Jesswein.

  • 11:00 – 13:00: InterregTour – "On European paths" – Anna Czerniawska and Dana Jesswein.

  • 13:00 – 14:00: Outdoor barbecue – Dawid Dawidowicz and Wojciech Zbaraszewski.

  • 14:00 – 14:30: Survey on nature experiences in protected areas – Norman Ebert, Dawid Dawidowicz, Wojciech Zbaraszewski.

  • 14:30 – 14:45: Sweet treats – cake – Anna Czerniawska.

  • 14:45: Group photo – Dawid Dawidowicz.

  • 15:00: End of Cooperation Day 2025 celebrations.

 

This interactive programme provided a hands-on experience for students to explore cross-border cooperation, environmental stewardship, and the opportunities offered by European programmes such as Interreg, fostering curiosity, engagement, and lasting connections between young people on both sides of the border.

Venue: West Pomeranian Provincial Landscape Park Administration, Kopalniana Street 2, Szczecin