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Climate change has been described as one of the biggest health and environment threats today — a phenomenon known to a few of us, but one that most have barely heard of.

The effectiveness of plans and measures taken to tackle this global problem depend on, to a large extent, public awareness and the willingness to support them. Creating a critical mass of citizens working proactively for the implementation of these planned activities is a serious challenge. A challenge that we hope the users of this portal are ready to accept!

About the portal

The informational and educational portal Klimadapt is intended for the dissemination of information, training of students, teachers and the general public, as well as for the organization of civil projects and campaigns dedicated to overcoming and adapting to climate change. Its creation took place within the project Changing with Climate, which is implemented by 10 partner organizations with the support of the Environmental Protection and Climate Change Program through the Financial Mechanism of the European Economic Area /2014-2021/.

The Klimadapt portal includes a variety of informational and didactic materials (texts, videos, lesson plans, dilemmas, model stories and fairy tales, worksheets, experiments, tests, games, instructions on how to organize actions, etc.) that provide opportunities for implementation of a learning process and/or organising a variety of activities related to mitigation or adaptation to the occuring climate changes.

Portal Development

Information texts and structure, concept of the portal: Kliment Mindjov

Educational scenarios: Kliment Mindjov, Tatiana Miteva

Portal design and PDF files: Sylvia Magyar

Illustrations and graphics: Laszlo Falvay

Video adaptation: Ivan Kozhuharov

Translation from/into English: Irina Dobriyanova, Kliment Mindjov

Editing in Bulgarian: Galina Spassova

Programming: Daniel Mirea

Management of the "Changing with Climate" project: Mariana Bancheva, Violeta Nikolova

The portal uses photos from the iStock and Unsplash platforms, as well as “pro bono” provided materials from the photo and video library of the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC).

Acknowledgements

The development of the Klimadapt informational and educational portal was made possible through the goodwill and cooperation of a wide range of specialists and organisations.

We express our heartfelt gratitude to Prof. Dennis Meadows and his collaborators for the copyright for the Bulgarian language version of "The Climate Change Playbook", which includes 22 interactive games.

Nikolay Petkov researched and prepared information related to good Bulgarian and foreign practices in dealing with climate change. We thank him.

In the virtual library of the portal, informational and educational materials of various nature of various organizations, created years ago, but facing increasingly difficulty to find on the Internet, are included. In this regard, our thanks go to:

Gerassim Gerassimov (Bulgarian-Swiss cooperation programme) – for the valuable publications of the Regional Environmental Center, Bulgaria;
Vesselina Kavrakova (WWF Bulgaria) – for the provided video and printed (PDF format) materials of the World Wildlife Fund;
Polina Hristova (Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds) – for the links to useful video materials and brochures of BSBP;
Stanimira Deleva (Green Balkans) – for providing the "Manual for field work" created by her;
Zhivko Zhekov, agricultural producer, Tundzha municipality – for shared memories "Thick snow – a big loaf of bread";
The partners in the "Changing with Climate" project - "Za Zemiata, Norges Naturvernforbund (Friends of the Earth Norway); SS "Tsvetan Radoslavov", Svishtov; PS "St. Paisii Hilendarski", Bansko " also participate with their materials in the virtual library.

The informative and educational texts in the portal reflect facts and data from various international and Bulgarian sources: European Commission, European Environment Agency, World Health Organization, United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); United States Environmental Protection Agency, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), World Bank, World Resources Institute, Ministry of Environment and Water of the Republic of Bulgaria, Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe, publications in BBC, The Guardian and other periodicals. The creators of the portal are responsible for the content and the way the information is presented and visualized.

Finally, but not least, we would like to express our sincerest gratitude to our sponsors from the Financial Mechanism of the European Economic Area (EEA FM) and the program operator at the Ministry of Environment and Water of the Republic of Bulgaria. Thank you!

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