Template:Baltic Sea Info Tour 2010 - Preparation

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Preparation of the Tour

In this section we will give transparency about the status of preparation of the project.

Planning Process

• the next preparation meeting will be over New Year at the JUKSS (Youth Environmental Congress) in Elmshorn/Germany
• the most important things to be organized right now are: funding and finding groups to organize the local stops of the Tour
  • for the funding we plan to apply for money at the EU YOUTH IN ACTION programme - the tour project is fitting to the programme quite good and it should be possible to get enough money for it there
  • but it will be much work to write the application as we are supposed to fill some 20 pages of forms of the EU to apply for money
  • for this reason we are looking for people who are willing to discuss the application text and to help with writing parts of it
  • the application has to be sent to the EU by end of January 2010
  • we are currently looking also for groups or people who are willing to organize local stops of the tour in their cities/areas
  • we found already some people in several cities of Finland, in Malmö (Sweden) and in Riga (Latvia)
  • we are still looking for people to organize local stops of the Tour in Denmark, Poland, Germany, other Swedish cities and the Baltic States as well as in Russia close to the Baltic Sea
• the next big tasks to be done are connected with promotion work: we need flyers and posters to distribute all over Europe (focussing on countries around the Baltic Sea but also elsewhere)
  • we need people to write invitation texts, people to design nice flyers/posters, people to translate these things into other languages and people to distribute the materials
  • the invitation has also to be spread to the international and local networks (e.g. mailing lists, internet forums and blogs, news portals...)
  • would be nice to have an advertising banner to distribute to webpages to promote the Tour - who would design it? who is willing to ask webpage operators to put them on their pages?
• still unclear is the concrete schedule of the Tour, where we want to start and in which direction we want to travel around the Baltic Sea and also by which means we want to travel
  • some people like the idea of having caravans, others want a biketour or a mixture of different means (boat, train, hitchhiking, bicycle, caravans...)
  • we'll become clear about these things during the next months - at the latest when we apply for money we will have a kind of idea how the schedule should look like
• another tool to work on is the Baltic Sea Map project - we want to put all information about nuclear sites there; this will be helpful to inform about the issues and also to have good background information for later use

• possible topics and thematic priorities are collected here: topics page

Past Meetings

• 1st idea and workshop of the Baltic Sea Info Tour project idea: at the NUCLEAR weekEND in October, 2008, in Isnäs (FIN)
• Workshop for presentation and discussion of the Baltic Sea Info Tour: at the International Anti-nuclear Network Meeting in Frankfurt/Main (D) on January 1st, 2009
  • Minutes of the workshop
• Preparation meeting: in Stockholm (SE) on April 17-19th, 2009
  • Minutes of the meeting
• Skype meeting: June 13th 2009
• presentation of the project: at the Nuclear Climate Camp in Tervola in July 2009

Local Stops of The Tour

We are currently looking for partner groups/people who want to organize local stops of the Baltic Sea Info Tour. These local people should organize accommodation and food for the participants of the Tour; they also should make the local advertising/promotion of the project and organize the local information events and actions. The participiants of the Tour will join the street actions, help with the events and try to participate the organizing process of these local activities. But most local organizing tasks (as room, food, advertising) will have to be done by local people.

confirmed locations:

• Åland (FIN)
• Helsinki (FIN)
• Loviisa/Isnäs (FIN)
• Malmö (SE)
• Oulu (FIN)

Baltic Tour Project Timeline

This was planned in the meeting 19.4.09.

Resources & funding

for now, scattered information about these aspects can be found in the notes from the JUKSS workshop notes & the Stockholm meeting notes, and in the Timeline section.

A schematic overview will be constructed at the Resource List page

Content; i.e. what exactly the tour is about

Thoughts from the JUKSS workshop:

Maybe different focus in different places? (Needs coordination!)

• scandinavia: uranium mining(!), NPP proliferation, waste storage plans, "future nuclear colonies"
  • saami, europe's only indigenous people
• 'lithuania: very dependent on NPP ignalina, green NGOs campaign for nuclear-free Li.
• denmark: nuclear-free, lots of renewable energy
• greifswald (de): example of closed plant (also Barsebäck in Swe)
• murmansk (ru): there is a campaign (in norway?) to appeal to russian authorities to shut down power plant in murmansk region)

(See also the Nuclear Baltic Map)

Aims / topics?

• support for affected communities
• networking, contact
• awareness raising & information
  • along (future) routes of nuclear material
  • about nuclear issues around the baltic sea
    • distribute map of nuclear industry activity around the baltic sea
    • the baltic sea is radioactive (MILKAS?)
    • Uranium Tails: UF6 transported over the baltic sea
  • alternatives
    • downscaling & localizing, not just "green" version of status quo
    • Knowhow & DIY info: f.ex. small-scale renewable energy
      • specialized business? (f.ex. renewable energy)
• suggestion: Public Campaign for a Nuclear Free Baltic
  • Not only information, but give some "future" (Message: nuclear-free baltic is possible).
  • Also good countermove against the threat of scandinavia becoming a "nuclear colony"

What profile?

• we're not "professional", or experts, just people (and that's ok!)
• activities should be determined by local groups/people!
  • we could provide different options: seminars/workshop "packages", action, info material