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Connecting and protecting unique landscapes throughout Europe by empowering local stakeholders: BESTbelt provides not only funding for conservation projects and sustainable development along the European Green Belt but also training and guidance on project management. The first BESTbelt Call for proposals was successfully launched in February 2022.

The BBC World Service produced three episodes about the European Green Belt. All episodes are available online after broadcast.

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The European Green Belt is a vital symbol for the peaceful overcoming of a four-decade-long division of Europe.

Members of the European Parliament together with the European Green Belt Association invite you to a public webinar to introduce the idea behind the new pilot project.

Connect and protect - more power for the European Green Belt. The launch of the BESTbelt calls for proposals provides new opportunities.

Nearby a small German river, a class and his teacher started a project to demonstrate the journey of waste along the Danube to the Black Sea

As part of the European Green Belt Day events on September 20-21-22, young people from different regions of Turkey and experts from Bulgaria met in the forests of Strandja.

The small town of Kukës in northeastern Albania has been recognised as a Model Municipality of the European Green Belt. EuroNatur Executive Director Gabriel Schwaderer presented the award.

On November 9, 1989 the Berlin Wall came down – the beginning of the end of the Iron Curtain. 32 years later, the EU-funded project „BEST Belt“ aims to make it easier for local nature conservation organisations getting access to EU funds.