Kotor Children’s Theater Festival in cooperation with the NGO Our Action organized last week’s screenings of documentary environmental films in the open air, in the garden of the Cultural Center “Nikola Djurkovic” Kotor. Screenings included films by Montenegrin director Mladen Ivanovic “Between the River and the People” and “Godovi”, the film “The Undamaged” as part of the Balkan river defense, to the film “The Road through Generations – Ulcinjska Solana” by the association Dr. Martin Schneider-Jacobi. Young people of all ages learned about the long-standing struggle for Beranselo, about the activism of citizens across the Balkans against small hydropower plants, and about the struggle of citizens around the world for free access to drinking water. The need to protect the saltworks and important habitats, as well as the preservation of the environment and especially the sea and forests were the main topic of discussions of young people with directors, activists and volunteers after the screening of the film. This activity was implemented as part of the “Youth for a Clean Adriatic” project supported by Beyond plastic MED and the Prince Albert II Foundation of Monaco. #stopplasticpollution #initiativesbemed #montenegro #BeMed #BeMedMontenegro #YouthforacleanAdriatic #MladizacistJadran #NVONasaAkcija #NGOOurAction #Breakfreefromplastic #Kotorskifestivalzadjecu

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NGO Our action attended a promotion on the occasion of the completion of activities on the first rehabilitation of sand dunes in Montenegro at the location Europe beach on Long beach in Ulcinj, organized by the Public Company for Management of Marine Assets of Montenegro. Our young members won third place in a public call for artists and NGOs to create and set up art installations made from natural and processed wood collected during beach cleaning actions. Installations “Medusa” and “Cancer” were made by volunteers of the NGO Our action (from 13 to 20 years old) in several actions. The project “WELCOME” (WatEr LandsCapes sustainability thrOugh reuse of Marine littEr – Sustainability of water landscapes with the reuse of marine litter), which is implemented under the Interreg IPA cross-border cooperation program for Italy, Albania and Montenegro, aimed at sustainable marine litter management as and to strengthen cross-border cooperation, all with the aim of solving the problem of waste from the sea, which is increasingly pronounced in this area. The activities of this project are focused on the removal of waste from beaches, monitoring of waste from the sea as well as the restoration and protection of sand dunes using wood waste collected from beaches. Public Company for Marine Asset Management of Montenegro and the University of Montenegro – Institute of Marine Biology, participate in the implementation of the project “WELCOME” in cooperation with partners from Italy and Albania. To the young volunteers of the NGO Our action, this is the third year in which they focus on raising public awareness about waste in the sea and the need to protect the sea through art installations, from making the installation “Skeleton whale” of 8.5m which was used as a musical instrument during the closing of KotorArt In 2018, the realization of the project ‘Youth for a Clean Adriatic’ with the installations “Dragon of Gurdić” and “Plastic Jellyfish” for the Kotor Children’s Theater Festival, and “Angry Poseidon” for the Kotor Summer Carnival 2019, and so on until this project. For the summer of 2020, this team of young people has hinted at new installations that will soon adorn the squares of Kotor and Herceg Novi.

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Thru the realization of our project “Youth for a clean Adriatic” financed by BeMed and the foundation of Prince Albert II of Monaco, NGO Our action attracted the attention of the magazine. Our project was placed in this summers issue.