Rio Neiva Environmental NGO goal is the promotion and valorisation of the local natural environment and biodiversity through Envrionmental Education and Sustainability and Nature Sports. Our target-groups are the local school community and local inhabitants / community.

KEY FACTS:
- Founded in 1989
- Environmental Non-Governmental Organization Status (Environmental Portuguese Agency Recognition)
- Public Interest Organisation Status (Prime Minister’s Office Recognition)
- New European Bauhaus Official Partners
- 1st Prize EU Health Award 2021, NGO, Mental Health

IMPACT IN 2021:
> 2500 children, teenagers, adults and seniors engaged per year
> 150 activities per year

SOME PREVIOUS PROJECTS:
- BioNeiva – Valuing and Preserve the Neiva River (Promotor, 2019-2021, Fundação AMI / Instituto Camões / DEAR Program)
- Green Hour- Nature Based Activities for an Active Ageing (Promotor, 2021, BPI la Caixa)
- In My Backyard – Citizen Science for Home Farming and Gardening (Promotor, 2020, ACTION / Horizonte 2020)
- Ocean Routes – Exploring and Valuing the Maritime Culture of Esposende (Promotor, 2021-2022, EEA Grants)
- E-REDES – Promoting a Sustainable Fishing (Partner, 2020-2021, EEA Grants)
- #MoFWaste – Museum of Food Waste (Promotor, 2021, ALDA / DEAR Program)
- By One Branch- Social and Artistic Intervention through Nature (Partner, 2021-2023, Gulbenkian)
- Stories from both sides: building-up a common vision for the Neiva river (Promotor, 2021, Climate-KIC)

Ecology
Education sciences

LOOKING FOR PROJECTS THAT WISH TO:
- work in close contact with local communities;
- work with a civil society NGO;
- work in ways to engage with local communities, such as citizen science;
- work in the topics of local sustainability, from backyards, to home food production, to environmental and nature active and citizen-based conservation in the Natura 2000 area we are located at.

community, civil society, environmental education, sustainability

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