Current journalists, press officers of industrial enterprises, bloggers, and young authors interested in the topic of environmental protection applied to upgrade their competencies in the field of ecology. For two months, the trainees will acquire new knowledge, master working tools for more profound coverage of environmental issues. Due to the project a pool of eco-journalists will be formed in Omsk region. Moreover, the school will become a dialogue platform for media organisations, industrial enterprises and environmentalists

The Eco-school's speakers are specialists from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of Omsk region, representatives of Omsk branch of the Russian Geographical Society, and federal mass media journalists. Omsk Oil Refinery "Gazprom Neft" and the AO GС "Titan" are the general partners of the project. Ilya Lobov, Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of Omsk region, spoke at the first lesson of the summer session. The dialogue focused on the implementation of the national project "Environment", the role of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment in reducing harmful emissions into the city atmosphere, the condition and development of specially protected natural areas in Omsk region.

"Many environmental ratings are created in Russia. Often their authors do not assess the environmental situation itself, but the publications of journalists, guided by the headlines, - the head of the Ministry of Natural Resources addressed to the Eco-school participants. - Ecological agenda issues are solved jointly with you. Let's create an unbiased ecological image of the region, showing the opinions of all parties. Let the reader make conclusions himself".

The summer educational program includes a large number of field trips and thematic press tours. Participants will be provided insight into the structure of atmospheric air pollution, see with their own eyes the way the environmental monitoring is conducted, get acquainted with functioning of new eco-vehicles types, visit a waste sorting plant, assess the landfills' condition.

"We aimed at forming the educational programme in such a way as to immerse ourselves in the topical environmental issues as much as possible. Journalists will be able to see a lot with their own eyes, talk to experts and get deeper insights of the region's environmental problems," Andrey Motovilov, Editor-in-Chief of the newspaper “Omskaya Pravda”. - At the end of the second course of study we will arrange a trip for journalists to Ebeity, the unique salt lake in the south of the region". Omsk Union of Journalists will hold a creative competition of special informational projects devoted to environmental protection within the project. The ultimate prize is a trip to the "All Russia" festival of contemporary journalism in Sochi.

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