Awards in the name of Mimi Pramatarova for 2022

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At its annual event, the National Trust Eco Fund awarded the prizes to this year’s winners of the National Literature Competition in the name of Mimi Pramatarova (the first Director of Rila National Park).

First prize – crystalline statuette, certificate and scholarship of BGN 500 was handed over to Konstantin Dimitrov – student at the National High School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences “Academician Lyubomir Chatalov” for the essay “Innovations, Sustainable Business, Tradition – meeting in Natura 2000 (network)”. The prize was handed by Mr. Toma Belev – Deputy Minister of Environment and Water and Deputy Chairman of NTEF Management Board.

Second prize – certificate and scholarship of BGN 300 was awarded to Izabel Spasova from the Foreign Language High School “Peter Bogdan” in Montana for the short story „At Home“. The prize was handed by Mr. Vladimir Milushev – Director of Rila National Park.

Third prize – certificate and scholarship of BGN 200 was awarded to Katerina Choleva from the Professional Forestry Highschool “N. Y. Vaptzarov”  in Bansko “Out of Love for Nature“. This prize was handed by Ani Kirilova, Chair of the Prize Winners Club at Ecoforum Plus Foundation.

Like every year, the prizes were awarded during the Annual NTEF event, at which the report of the Fund for 2021 and the Action Plan for 2022 were presented.

The event was held as a continuation of a climate change adaptation workshop within the project “Implementation of innovative measures for climate change mitigation and adaptation in municipalities in Bulgaria” under the Environmental Protection and Climate Change Program, funded by the Financial Mechanism of the European Economic Area (2014-2021).

Annual event 2017

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The National Trust Ecofund held its annual event for 2017 on the 5th of June, the National Polytechnic Museum in Sofia.

At the event, the annual activity report for 2016 was presented to the public. Besides the implemented investment projects totaling over BGN 13 million, in 2016 the Fund also launched a Pilot Scheme for the Promotion of the Use of Electric Vehicles, the Mineral Water Investment Program, and started working on the development of combined financing mechanisms for project financing energy efficiency, as well as purposeful behavioral level work with Bulgarian schools on climate change.

Along with the presentation of the annual report, the event also included a seminar on “The NTEF Approaches to Implementing Flexible Financial Instruments in Publicly Funded Energy Efficiency Projects”. During the seminar the concrete steps of several pilot projects with the implementation of financial instruments, which the NTEF develops with its partners, were presented – those of Gabrovo, Samokov, and region Lyulin of the Sofia municipality. The Mayor of Gabrovo stressed the importance of innovative approaches towards technical decisions, as well as in the financial models of the energy efficiency projects with the aim of making the investment more effective.

The event also covered the traditional annual environmental awards under the name of Mimi Pramatarova. This year the competition was for school projects on climate change. First prize went to Secondary School “Ivan Vazov”,  Mezdra, for their  “Vazovche” Project and they received a statuette, diploma and the prize of 1000 leva. The project team will build a mini-weather station to aid the students in their climate education. The second place was awarded to Maths and Science Highschool “Prof. Emmanouil Ivanov “, Kyustendil, for the project” Environmental Monitoring of the Dragovishtitsa River “, for which they were awarded a diploma and 500 leva with which to continue working on their project. Ranked third were the students of PGT “Dr Vasil Beron “, Veliko Tarnovo, for the project” Classroom – borrowed from nature “, and received a diploma and 300 leva. The awards were presented by the Deputy Minister of Environment and Water Mrs. Atanaska Nikolova, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of NTEF Ms. Irena Georgieva and Anita Kirilova from the Prizewinners of the competition’s club. The cash prizes are intended to support the implementation of upgrading project activities.