Press release
Over 20,000 students join national environmental action through education
Skopje, 9 May 2025: , Today many classrooms across North Macedonia moved outdoors as more than 20,000 primary and secondary school students and over 1,000 teachers joined the nationwide clean-up initiative, Generalka Weekend. Together they participated in practical experiments and workshops to promote environmen...
Explainer
What is air pollution and how to protect your family from it
Air pollution is one of the greatest threats to children’s health. The latest regional report Breathless beginnings shows that in major cities across Europe and Central Asia air pollution regularly exceeds levels considered safe by WHO, making it the leading environmental health risk for children across the region...
Press release
1 in 9 infant deaths in North Macedonia linked to air pollution
Skopje, 10 September 2024 – In the lead up to International Day of Clean Air, UNICEF in Europe and Central Asia released a new policy brief highlighting that more than 5,480 infants in 23 countries and territories across Europe and Central Asia died from causes linked to air pollution in 2021. In North Macedonia, ...
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...
Press release
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...
Press release
The UPSHIFT programme continues strong - UNICEF and FITD commit to continue providing support for youth social entrepreneurship
Skopje, 22 September 2023:, The Fund for Innovation and Technological Development (FITD) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) today signed a new Memorandum of Understanding to continue with the UPSHIFT success story by the end of 2025. Both organizations are committed to continue providing support for youth...
Report
Analysis of the green skills situation in the Republic of North Macedonia
Modern mankind faces many challenges. One of the most significant is the challenge of acquiring new skills that will contribute to the endangered environment preservation and tackling climate change. It is about more efficient production with lower CO2 emissions, including the generation of larger energy quantitie...
Press release
UNICEF is calling on action for improved air quality to protect child rights and wellbeing
Skopje, , 7 September, 2023, – More than 5,800 children and teenagers in Europe and Central Asia died in 2019 from causes related to air pollution. The vast majority – 85 per cent – died before their first birthday, the equivalent of 90 babies a week, according to a new data analysis featured in a policy brief published today by UNICEF. Breathless beginnings: the alarming…, notes that children exposed to air pollution are at an increased risk of ...
Press release
Young people awarded seed funds to implement their ideas and make soil-solutions a reality
Skopje, 23 March 20, 23, : At a design thinking workshop 5 (five) teams of 13-19-year-old young people were granted each 120,000 denars to realize their innovative solution to improve and protect the soil resources in their communities and adapt to the effects of climate change. The innovators were selected as par...
Campaign
The youth is raising its voice towards the needed environmental changes
There is no doubt that North Macedonia is facing one of the most serious environmental challenges in the past decade – the level of air-pollution. Throughout the years, Skopje as the capital city and numerous other cities in the country have peaked the highest points on the scale of most air-polluted cities in the...
News note
Secondary school students created innovative solutions for energy saving and production in their schools
Skopje, 21 December 2022: , Children and young people are capable and ready to make the change in society through their innovative solutions to various social problems and challenges, was the conclusion of the Bootcamp of the UPSHIFT program. Within the framework of the programme, from December 19 to 21, a three-d...