Centre for sustainability and advanced education

Aquaponics by definition is the combination of aquaculture and hydroponics. The beauty of aquaponics is that in the combining of the two they equal out the negative aspects in each of them. In other words, the sum of the two when combined is greater than the sum of the two individuals.

Nutrient rich fish water is pumped from the fish tank into gravel beds, where plants growing in the gravel extract the nutrients from the water. The water then drains back into the fish tank cleaned of excess nutrients and freshly oxygenated.

Imagine a system on your back patio, enough to feed the whole family. With no chemicals and no wastes, using about one tenth of the water required for dirt grown vegetables. You might be wondering where’s the catch, but there isn’t one!

CSAE team during the visit of Growing power in USA, learn to make compost, vermicompost, but also to make complet systems for aquaponics.

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On 07.06.2008 in Bitola on Shirok Sokak (Main pedestrian street) invited 15 students from High School “Taki Daskalo” and the Linux Users Group from Bitola – Lugola (part of Free Software Macedonia) to plan common Direct action on the main pedestrian street in Bitola – Shirok Sokak.Theme was “Freedom instead of militarization, free software instead of violence” to put accent of Freedom as absence of militarization and violence. In this activity 18 young participants directly involved in the activity, 6 boys & 12 girls, 1.500 visitors at the activity, with distribution of 500 flyers and 60 t-shirts, and 400 CD-s with Fedora (provided by Lugola) in 3 hour direct action. The Action was very successful, all materials were distributed. On the Webpage of Lugola it was characterized like “Flood on Shirok sokak”. Impact was 1.500 people informed on the possibilities of using alternative solutions on free software and 50 people came back to get further information on the Free software movement.

During the period of 15.04.2008 – 15.05.2008 there was a Call for papers on theme “Demilitarization in society”, in four high schools in Bitola On the call 18 pupils applied with their papers, and 6 were chosen to be presented in front of their colleges. The activity was characterized as “Very good approach ask the children to be more active” and the professors in the schools find that the call for papers on Demilitarization was an excellent idea and the school decided to print the papers. There will be a follow up activity – printing an issue from the papers in 100 samples.

In the frame of “Building partnerships through actions for peace” CSAE realize following actions

Workshop on national identity

The workshop covered the topic of national identity and will be based on nonviolence handbook published by the Center for Nonviolent Action (CNA). In the workshop participated 23 pupils.

The objectives of the workshop

• Dealing with differences
• Reducing the fear of different national identities

Key issues

• Affecting the reduction of personal identity?
• Affecting the construction of national identity?
• What importance is national identity, and why?
• What connection exists between the different identities in terms of mutual definition?
• How to cope with the differences?
• What creates a sense of endangerment law identity?

Workshop on creative conflict resolution

The workshop covered the topic of creative development and conflict will be based on nonviolence handbook published by the Center for Nonviolent Action (CNA). In the workshop participated 26 pupils.

The objectives of the workshop

• Testing and analysis of alternative methods in conflict situations;
• Reducing the fear of conflicts.

Key issues

• How to confront in threatening situations?
• What accountability exists for the role of spectator violence?
• What strengths and weaknesses have the roles of victim, perpetrator and bystander?
• What opportunities exist for non-violent action in response to
• conflict situations?
• What opportunities exist for non-violent action in response to the situation physical and / or structural violence?
• Circle of Violence / how to break.

Competition for best work of inter-ethnic understanding and building peace (poem, play, story, play, display, drawing)

In order to activate young people will be competition for the best work of inter-ethnic understanding and peace building. Assumption is that there will attend at least 80 young people from different departments (drama, literature, art, music, etc..) Winner of the work and the manner of the performance will be limited, which opens every opportunity to participate in this contest. For the first three places will be awarded symbolic prizes.

Presentation of works

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Before we declare the winners will be realized presentation of works in one of the schools. The event will be organized in several places, if need it – eg. If there is a need for the stage play + presentation of art works will be covered two of the school premises. This presentation will be invited more people. The presentation will be declared winners.

Survey

Parallel with the presentation of the works will be carried out consultation which will cover at least 40 people – students aged 14 to 19 years to realize the impact of the project, but the thinking of young people about the possibility of interethnic understanding and building peace.

Realized cooperation

With OSU “Taki Teacher and OSU Kuzman Sapkarev”

Last year, the project “Stop the violence instigated by prejudice” achieved excellent cooperation with OSU, “Taki Teacher” at the moment we set a partnership with OSU Kuzman Sapkarev “