Other activity
The activities of the Nemunas Euroregion Marijampole Bureau in the areas of health and nature protection, education, sports, administration, reduction of border barriers, and other areas were carried out in Marijampolė, Kaunas, Grodno, Alytus regions, Kaliningrad region, Suwałki region.
Together with our partners, we prepared and released:
• methodological materials for improving Lithuanian language skills (in Lithuanian and Russian);
• Language and literature paths guide (for teaching and learning the Lithuanian language);
• Other publications, ... .
Also, together with partners:
• We organized the preparation and implementation of international projects on various topics in the regions of Marijampolė, Grodno, Alytus, Suwałki, and Kaliningrad, as well as in other countries (see section - Projects, subsection - Implemented);
• Two health protection projects initiated by us were among the largest projects in Lithuania and Poland (around 4.5 million euros) and in the border regions of Lithuania, Poland and Kaliningrad (around 4 million euros);
• Three projects in 2005, 2012 and 2018 were rated among the best cross-border cooperation projects in Europe, and the renovation project of Kalvarija Royal Park was the fastest implemented project in Lithuania;
• Smaller projects (with the value several or tens of thousands of euros) of Marijampolė, Sūduva, Šakiai, Vilkaviškis, Alytus district local activity groups and individual rural communities that we prepared or implemented in cooperation with us also provided pleasant and tangible benefits, including the most recent ones like the project "Adaptation of public spaces of Kriviliai village for sports and leisure" carried out by the community of the village of Kriviliai, Varėna district (in 2021-2022).
• We collaborated in organizing Lithuanian education in the neighbouring ethnic regions of Grodno, Suwałki, Kaliningrad, organized summer camps for youth and teachers, training seminars and conferences, Lithuanian (culture) days in Grodno and Kaliningrad regions;
• We also collaborated in preparing and publishing newspapers and magazines "Donelaičio Žemė" (Donelaitis Land) (from 2015 till now), in organizing poetry readings in Grodno, Tolminkiemis, Lazdynėliai, Seinai, Punskas, Kaliningrad, ...;
• We helped to provide the Lithuanian ethnic cultural groups with national clothes and other means;
• We organized schoolchildren and youth ecological hikes, border river pollution researches;
• We organized forum of Lithuanian and Polish municipalities, Euroregion youth games, cultural and educational exchanges, meetings of specialists and administrators in various other fields, acquaintance events, discussions on common ideas and their transformation into achievable results;
• We organized meetings and discussions of the Euroregion Council, working groups, as well as bilateral or tripartite meetings of politicians, administrators, and specialists of national, regional or individual self-governing institutions for identification of common problems and their solutions;
• And many many other activities.... .