ECAT Kaliningrad

Environmental Centre for Administration and Technology Kaliningrad

Description

The core of this project, which was implemented in the period 1995-1999, was the establishment of ECAT (Environmental Centre for Administration and Technology) in Kaliningrad. ECAT is a practical contribution to improvement of the environment situation in the city as well as in the region. On the administrative and the technical level it was necessary to elaborate and implement environmental protection instruments that contains on the one side, congruent criteria for a continuous development and on the other, the needs that exists for creating a social market economy.

The project was carried out in Kaliningrad. The result was that the project became a part of the Kaliningrad City Hall and the ECAT specialises in work on international environmental projects. Thus the ECAT centre has become a minor “project-factory” in relation to environmental projects. Some projects which the ECAT centre have promoted and pushed forward:

• "Sustainable traffic development in Kaliningrad City" (1997). The EU LIFE-fund
• "Capacity building at the central district heating company"  (1997). TACIS Twinning City programme
• "Development of eco-tourism and nature protection at the Curonian Spit and Vistula Spit" EU LIFE programme 

Partners

City of Bremerhaven (CETAQ – Centre for Conceptions of Technical Training and Qualification), Aalborg Municipality and Kaliningrad Municipality.  

Finances

The project was co-financed by the EU LIFE programme with app. 1,2 Mio. DKK. Budget 1,6 Mio. DKK.