ERASMUS PLUS PROGRAM

GEOPARKS - NATURAL AND CULTURAL HERITAGE THAT JOINS EUROPEAN STUDENTS AND TEACHERS

2018 – 2020 Dissemination – 2018 – 19

Dissemination of Erasmus Plus Program “Geoparks – Natural and Cultural

Heritage that Join European students and Teachers” in the 2nd Global Conference

of UNESCO Geoparks of Greece and Cyprus. On Friday 17th of May coordinator of the program in Cyprus Mr Nikolas Nikolaou and a group of

Students of the Cyprus Team of the program (Maria Kozakou, Rafaelia Koumoudiou, Adelina

Papapetrou, Christou Maria and Alexadros Kallinakis) represent in the 2nd Global Conference of

Unesco Geoparks of Greece and Cyprus

(http://www.geoparksconference.gov.cy/moa/gsd/conf.nsf/home/home?opendocument) the

results of our program for the first year of working with it. Also the students represent the results of

their research work with 2 smart and funny theatre style presentation. The whole presentation

which has been done in front of more than 100 people which were representatives of the following

organisations:

• Geological Survey Deprtments of the republic of Cyprus

http://www.moa.gov.cy/moa/gsd/gsd.nsf/dmlIndex_en/dmlIndex_en?OpenDocument

• Forest Department of Republic of Cyprus,

http://www.moa.gov.cy/moa/fd/fd.nsf/index_en/index_en?OpenDocument

• Ministry of Agriculturalm, Rural development and Environment of Cyprus,

http://www.moa.gov.cy/moa/agriculture.nsf/index_en/index_en?OpenDocument

• Environmental Department of Cyprus,

http://www.moa.gov.cy/moa/environment/environmentnew.nsf/page07_en/page07_en?Op

enDocument

• Cyprus National Commission of UNESCO,

http://www.unesco.org.cy/Index.aspx?Language=EN

• Global Geopark Network, http://www.globalgeopark.org/

• European Geoparks Network, http://www.europeangeoparks.org/

• Troodos Geopark (Cyprus, http://www.troodos-geo.org/cgibin/hweb?-V=index&_FAA=1&-

dindex.html&_VLANGUAGE=en)

• Lesvos Geopark (Mytilini island, Greece, http://www.lesvosgeopark.gr/en/)

• Geography and Geology department, University of Aegean, Greece,

https://geography.aegean.gr/index_en.php

• Sitia Nature Park and Geopark (Sitia, Greece, http://www.sitia-geopark.gr/en.aspx)

• Psiloritis Unesco Global Geopark, (Crete, Greece, http://www.unesco.org/new/en/natural-

sciences/environment/earth-sciences/unesco-global-geoparks/list-of-unesco-global-

geoparks/greece/psiloritis/

• Vikos – Aoos Geopark – Greece, http://www.europeangeoparks.org/?page_id=652

• Chelmos – Vouraikos Geopark, Greece, http://www.fdchelmos.gr/en/

• Environments Education Department (Environmental Centers for Education of Cyprus)

And a lot of other people. All the people in the conference gave us congratulations about the

perfect presentation and especially about all educational activities that we have done for the

program, we had also invitations to represent our results in other conferences in Greece about

Geoparks. Due to our presentation our presentations and the posters of our from Geoparks

program will be uploaded in the webpage of the conference and also in the webpage of National

Committee of UNESCO in CYPRUS.

Appendix: Photos of the Conference and the representation of

Lyceum Agios Ioannis