Slovenia
Welcome to Slovenia!
We welcome everyone who cares about the environment and our future – SLOVENIA is proud to participate in the longest relay run, which has a common goal to raise awareness of the importance of preserving the environment. Join us at three major running handover points (events) in Slovenia.
Throughout the 7,767km relay route we are visiting and celebrating some of the world’s most inspirational and groundbreaking climate action projects. Discover more about these projects below.
Primary school Jožeta Gorjupa Kostanjevica na Krki
Let’s preserve the Biodiversity!
Through the activities we carry out in all three projects, we teach young people the importance of preserving everything alive on our planet. The forest is our largest outdoor classroom – children of all ages learn about forest heritage and about all aspects of the forest (environmental, social, economic …). Through the activities, we draw attention to the importance of protecting forests and their sustainable management, which is very important for the preservation of overall biodiversity. Students get to know nature through all the senses. Create from natural materials, get to know indigenous plants and animals and learn about the importance of preserving nature and everything alive through a variety of activities.
Jožeta Gorjupa Kostanjevica na Krki
Through the activities and projects, we raise awareness among young people about the importance of conserving biodiversity for the preservation of our world. We will celebrate three intertwined projects: Hand in hand for biodiversity protection, Forest – our lifelong teacher, LEAF – Learning about forests.
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Primary school Leskovec pri Krškem:We run for clean environment
As part of the Eco-Schools programe, the school is very active in different topics (biodiversity, climate change, energy, clean water, forests, food waste, sustainable mobility). Employees at the school make children aware of the importance of caring for our planet in all areas. They are educated in the spirit of using sustainable energy sources, caring for nature, for as little waste as possible or reusing it, as little food as possible discarded. Pupils successfully transfer knowledge to the home and local environment
Primary school Leskovec pri Krškem: We run for clean environment
The school will present several of activities in connection to biodiversity, climate change and energy, as they are very active Eco-School.
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Krško GEN
We run for GREEN Energy
Through the project Youth in the World of Energy, we educate young people through various activities about the importance of using renewable energy sources for a better tomorrow.
As part of the project, with the help of professional and comprehensive content, we are implementing the mission of greater energy literacy among young people, with an emphasis on sustainable energy sources. Through various activities, students learn about the future of electricity supply in Slovenia and the world. They get to know renewable energy sources in detail, because this is the only way to reduce our environmental footprint with as little emissions as possible.
Krško GEN: We run for GREEN Energy
Through the project Youth in the World of Energy, we educate young people through various activities about the importance of using renewable energy sources for a better tomorrow.
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Running Out of Time is an annual climate relay that raises awareness, inspires action and celebrates great climate campaigns, projects and events across Britain.
The 2024 Relay launches 6th June at Ben Nevis before undertaking an extraordinary 2,436km journey through 50 cities and towns to Big Ben in Parliament Square, London on July 4th. Comprising 210 stages - and 80+ visits to climate & nature projects, sporting bodies & venues, schools, events and iconic locations - its set to be the most spectacular Climate Relay yet.
It features famous sporting venues; stunning natural sites, schools, universities, community projects, music, fashion and climate events. And a host of different and imaginative ways to move the baton which will be run, walked, cycled, swum, surfed, paddled, skied, para-glided and wake boarded along the way!
It should be fun, inspirational, and epic and we’d love you to join us! Please sign up now and help unite people, climate and nature!
The relay starts at Lochaber High School, Fort William, on Thursday 6th June and will finish at Big Ben on Thursday 4th July.
You must be over the age of 18 to sign-up to our relay and be able maintain an average pace of 7 minutes per kilometre for the duration of a stage.
If you are under the age of 18 and would like to run a stage, then please ask your parent/legal guardian to contact us at [email protected] and we will see if this can be accommodated.
It is the joint responsibility of all participants to keep the relay running to time. Please do everything in your power to prevent delays. We’re all relying on you!
We want the Relay to champion climate action and nature, to celebrate the fantastic work that’s already being done, to raise awareness, change minds and inspire action, and to gently but firmly keep the pressure on our governments, our employers, our places of learning and ourselves to take collective action.
We want it to be an event that links and unites, that demonstrates the support that exists for change, and that provides our partners with a platform to help achieve their goals and objectives.
We do this because we believe in a future that not only avoids the most disastrous impacts of climate change and biodiversity loss - indescribably important though that is - but that also takes us to a better place. One with sustainable, affordable energy, with clean air and clean water, with food for all, and a natural world that can be enjoyed by future generations.
We know we are only a tiny part of a global community that shares this vision but relays are what we do and we are determined to play our part.
National partner
DOVES-FEE Slovenia
DOVES-FEE Slovenia (DOVES) operates in public interest in the field of the environment, being recognized and confirmed by the Slovene Ministry of the Environment. It is aiming to promote sustainable development through environmental education and tourism sector. DOVES was established in 1994 and is a full member of the international Foundation for the Environmental Education. There are 3 educational programs within FEE: Eco-Schools, Learning about Forests and Young reporters for the Environment, all implemented by DOVES.
The Eco-Schools programme started in Slovenia in 1996. It is the largest network for ESD in the world and in Slovenia. It covers multiple environmental themes: water, energy, waste, biodiversity, sustainable mobility, food, health and wellbeing, school gardens, climate changes. Projects and activities are designed to increase awareness and to influence on making important decisions at all levels in the future.