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New green skills internships to prepare students for future growing job markets
Skopje, 13 May 2025: , To bolster skills in growing job sectors, secondary schools for vocational education and training (VET) recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with six public institutions to support the development of green skills of students through practical instruction. The new partnerships betwee...
Article
The quest for clean air in North Macedonia
“Many of the green initiatives are tokenistic and they don’t work,” says 19-year-old Desanka, an environmental activist in Skopje, North Macedonia. Desanka has been working with other young people on a petition to the government, calling for higher fines for factories that do not take adequate protection measures ...
Campaign
Parental Guide for a Very Hot Summer
Parental Guide, Climate Change and Children, Human activity and the emission of the greenhouse gases into the atmosphere have already left a visible trace on our planet’s climate. The average temperature has risen by around 1.1 °C in the last 100 years, and each of the last four decades had been successively warm...
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Heat wave safety tips
Heat waves are anything but fun in the sun. Extreme heat and humidity can be extremely uncomfortable and pose serious health risks, especially for infants, children, pregnant women and the elderly. Without taking the proper precautions, extreme heat can lead to heat stroke and even worse, fatality. As a result of ...
Press release
Rising heat across Europe and Central Asia kills nearly 400 children a year - UNICEF
GENEVA, 24 July 2024 –, Rising temperatures across Europe and Central Asia killed an estimated 377 children in 2021 – according to a new analysis of data from 23 countries published today by UNICEF. Beat the heat: child health amid heatwaves in Europe and Central Asia finds that half of these children died from he...
Photo essay
Igniting Curiosity and Adventure in Learning
A network of national institutions and organizations, including the Macedonian Ecological Society, Botanical Garden Skopje, Hydrobiological Institute Ohrid, Educational Centre Negrevo, Narodna Tehnika, the National Park Galichica, and more recently, the BioTechnology Laboratory managed by the City of Skopje and Dr...
Photo essay
Young people are coming together for local clean air policies
It’s a sunny morning in Gostivar where Nazif (22) and Dardan (22), two activists and members of the Local Youth Council, warmly greet a group of young people arriving at the vibrant youth center. They are excited, and somewhat relieved, that many of their peers showed up to take part in the workshop on air quality...
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Interactive Event on Climate Action and Environmental Education in the Skopje City Park
Skopje, 21 March 2024:, On the first day of spring, children, young people, and educators livened up the Skopje City Park at an interactive event to showcase climate action and environmental education initiatives being implemented in the country. The event was organized by the Ministry of Environment and Physical ...
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Students developed an innovative trap to track and protect lynx in North Macedonia
Skopje, 12 March 2024:, A group of university students in natural and technical sciences, in coordination with the Macedonian Ecological Society, set up three prototype traps for catching lynx in the National Park – Mavrovo. The design of the trap was selected as the winning solution of the UNICEF supported Innova...
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Keeping the momentum of action on children's rights and the environment, with a focus on climate change
Skopje, 30 August 2023, – In the winter of 2021, thousands of young people from North Macedonia contributed to the development and adoption of a Youth’s Climate Declaration Youth Climate Declaration calling on decision makers to take specific action on climate change and asking for more opportunities to drive solu...
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UN Committee on the Rights of the Child calls on states to take action in first guidance on children's rights and the environment, with a focus on climate change
Today, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child published authoritative guidance to States on what they must do to uphold children’s right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment. In the face of the deepening climate crisis, the Committee specified obligations under the UN Convention on the ...
News note
The first Bio-Technology Laboratory opened in Skopje
The first Bio-Technology Laboratory in the country was opened with UNICEF and UNPD support and in partnership with the City of Skopje. Located in the premises of the secondary vocational school “Marie Curie” in Skopje, the laboratory will serve as the go-to venue for extracurricular activities, clubs and project...