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5th Call for IKI Small Grants Proposals
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IKI Small Grants: 5th Call open until 13 March 2024

The Frankfurt Zoological Society supports environmental education programs in 12 Protected Areas in the Ukrainian Carpathians. The FZS environmental education team recently completed a study tour of particular German protected areas which excel in environmental education and transferred their learnings to the employees of Carpathian protected areas through two-day seminars held on-site in the Carpathians.

MediaProject News

The Origins of the Low Carbon Ukraine Project

In September 2023, Low Carbon Ukraine (LCU)-Project team leader Robert Kirchner participated in an expert interview with the 100GREEN YouTube channel where he discussed the origins of the LCU project and its role in Ukraine’s energy transformation, the importance of European climate legislation for Ukrainian businesses, as well as Ukraine’s future development.

Apartment building in Lviv, Ukraine
Project News

Successful Thermo-Modernization of Buildings even in Times of War

As of December 2023, 6 multiapartment buildings in Sykhiv district of Lviv with the homeowners’ associations were fully modernized under the “Energodim” program of Energy Efficiency Fund – with the support of the project. Construction works at 3 of them were ended in 2022-2023 under the conditions of full-scale war in Ukraine.

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Project News

Filling Data Gaps of the Lynx Research in Ukraine

FZS’s researchers conducted the first spatially-explicit capture-recapture of lynx using camera traps. Nearly 3 years of work, 100s of camera traps, 100,000s of camera trap photos, and dozens of specialists were needed to make this happen.

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Project News

Eco-Education Programs as an Investment in the Future

The Frankfurt Zoological Society supports environmental education programs in 12 Protected Areas in the Ukrainian Carpathians. The FZS environmental education team recently completed a study tour of particular German protected areas which excel in environmental education and transferred their learnings to the employees of Carpathian protected areas through two-day seminars held on-site in the Carpathians.

Rouven Stubbe is talking to another man
Project News

Low Carbon Ukraine Participation at the European-Ukrainian Energy Day in Vienna

Rouven Stubbe, consultant at Berlin Economics and energy expert at the Low Carbon Ukraine project delivered a speech at the European-Ukrainian Energy Day in Vienna on September 28, 2023. Subsequently, he participated in a panel discussion on “Energy security and building back
better: Energy efficiency as part of energy security strategy and a tool for freeing resources for economic growth”

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EventsProject News

Translating the Benefits of Green Investments into Actionable Steps for Ukraine

The “Shades of Green” discussion on Ukraine’s green recovery, organized by the Ukrainian Climate Office, WWF Ukraine, and CEE on November 21st, highlighted the importance of green investments. With around 50 participants from national and international climate policy stakeholders, the event aimed to translate the benefits of green investments into actionable steps for Ukraine.

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Project News

New Steps taken towards the new «Renewables for Resilient Ukraine» Project

The project “Renewables for Resilient Ukraine” aims for 16 Ukrainian communities to receive grants of 30k – 50k EUR to install solar power systems or heat pumps in public buildings: schools, hospitals, kindergartens etc.

This has been realized by the consortium of NGOs (Ecoclub, Ecodia, Energy Act For Ukraine Foundation, RePower Ukraine) in political partnership with the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Ministry of Energy. Currently, the grant agreement with NGOs has been signed and a technical concept for the project has been developed.

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Project News

Coordination Meeting of NGOs and Members of the Rebuild Ukraine Green Platform

Prior to the 3rd German-Ukrainian Energy Day, Deputy Head of the Low Carbon Ukraine project Pavel Bilek attended the coordination meeting of NGOs and members of the Rebuild Ukraine Green platform. During the full-day event, the participants discussed the major opportunities and obstacles for Ukraine’s reconstruction and the need to ensure green principles and sustainability are prioritized in any rebuilding activities.

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EventsProject News

German-Ukrainian Energy Day 2023

The annual German-Ukrainian Energy Day within the framework of the German-Ukrainian Energy Partnership strengthens the partnership between Germany and Ukraine, facilitating strategic engagement, knowledge exchange, and business opportunities within the energy sector. This year’s event was held in Berlin on the 25th of October. During the event, Robert Kirchner, Team Leader of the Low Carbon Ukraine project, participated in a panel on “Strengthening Frameworks for Sustainable Development and Market Integration of the Ukrainian Energy Sector”.

Events

Intensifying German-Ukrainian Climate Cooperation in Times of War in Ukraine

The workshop, held on 27 February 2023 in Berlin and as a virtual event, was titled “IKI Implementation in War Times – Underpinning Ukraine’s Green Reconstruction with Ambitious Climate and Biodiversity Policy and Action”, and saw Ukrainian IKI projects discussing these issues together with political partners from Germany and Ukraine.