Реферат по теме: Sisters-Cities: Common Problems Common Success

Автореферат исследовательского проекта.

Автор: Костенкова Анна Михайловна

МОУСОШ №50 г. Нижний Тагил, Свердловская обл.

Тема исследовательского проекта: Н. Тагил и Чаттануга: общие проблемы, общий успех.

Направление: Человек и общество

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Looking through the calendar you can find out that we have one or another holiday every Sunday. One of such holidays is the Day of Sisters-Cities (twin towns) which we celebrate on April 25. It was established 41 years ago by the initiative of World Federation of sisters-cities.

As world non-governmental organization it was founded in Paris in 1957. The first agreements were concluded in 1942 between Stalingrad and Coventry, the towns destroyed by the war.

Now this organization unites 3,500 towns and more than 160 countries. Our town has four sisters-cities: Heb, Chattanooga, Krivoy Rog and Brest.

The theme of our project is actual because every city and town has such problems as ecological, social, economical. They try to solve them in their own way. Their solutions may be unique. We proved it investigating the development of the relations of two sisters-cities N-Tagil and Chattanooga. United towns may have more successful results.

We'd like to describe the relation of two sisters-cities: N. Tagil and Chattanooga. We consider that the theme of our project is actual. Both towns were the dirtiest in their countries. They had a lot of problems in social, ecological and economical spheres. The ways now they solved them were interesting now and actual.

That's why we chose the theme: Sisters-Cities: Common problems, common success.

The aim of the project is to determine common ways in solving ecological problems of sisters-cities N. Tagil and Chattanooga

For reaching the aim we put the following tasks:

1. To study the literature on the theme.

2. To investigate the problems in the ecology of culture, environment and man in sisters-cities N. Tagil and Chattanooga.

3. To work out the project "School yard", which would correspond the tasks of saving nature and culture.

4. To create a video guide about cultural and historical sights of sisters-cities N. Tagil and Chattanooga.

Studying the literature we found and that the idea to enter into friendly relations between N. Tagil and the town from the USA was born in the process of the realization of joint Russian-American Project in the field of the protection of the environment the rational using natural resources of N. Tagil (1994-2000).

We found out that Chattanooga, the fourth largest city in the state, is located in the Southeast Tennessee near the border of Georgia at the junction of four interstate highways. The city has received national recognition for the renaissance of its beautiful downtown and redevelopment of its riverfront. The city boasts the most productive affordable housing programme in the nation and is notable for leveraging development funds through effective public/private partnerships, with significant civic involvement on the part of private foundations. Chattanooga was one of the first US cities to effectively use a citizen visioning process to set specific long-range goals to enrich the lives of residents and visitors.

We got acquainted with the history of Chattanooga and the ways which citizens chose to improve the situation the literature and learnt that in 1996 American Congress displayed the initiative to assist Russia to solve environmental problems Russian Ministry suggests N. Tagil. The coordinator of the project was Con-Marsh.

A special federal programme has been worked out. A new Russian-American project was sighed in 2000 and thanks to it the society "Clean House" appeared.

International cooperation of N. Tagil with state and public organizations was very active during the period of realization of joined Russian American project in the field of the environment. Russian-American project has become the result of work of the Commission, created by B. Eltzin and Clinton in 1993. At first the work of Russian-American cooperation concentrated on such areas as: cosmos, energy and high technologies. Then the Commission expanded its sphere of activity including the questions of health and ecology. N-Tagil was chosen as a city having serious ecological problems and situated in the dirtiest regions of Russia.

This joined work of both countries gave good results. Only few years ago N. Tagil was in a dozen of Russia's dirtiest towns. Now it is among the 35 towns. The percentage of waste info the aim is decreasing. New common ways in solving problems have been created.

The most important thing of the work was that people of both towns were initiators of most projects.

Pupils of our school can't stay aside of ecological problems. We do our best to improve the situation in front of our school and inside it. The result of our work is the project "School yard" which corresponds the tasks of saving nature and culture.

We presented a project of a new school yard. The school will be surrounded by bushes. The yard will be divided into 4 sections. In one section you will see a play ground for small children with a merry-go-round, benches and flower-beds. Children can play, jump and rest here. To the left of it will be a place where students will play basketball. Behind the playground will be a football field. We would like to see a good sports ground for our students with deferent sport equipments. Here we'll train for our tourist and sport competitions.

We created a video guide about the renovated cultural and historical sights of both towns. Creating our guide we wanted to tell about the culture of N. Tagil and Chattanooga. We showed the sights which were created in Chattanooga and restored in N. Tagil during the cooperation of our towns and many other interesting places.

Russian-American projects gave a lot to sister-cities. Long and distinguished cooperation between the organization "Clean House" and the Institute of Stable Association and the administration of our town found its continuation in the project "Green future of N. Tagil". It started in spring of 2000. The idea of this project was to show our administration and citizens a new complex approach to the ecological situation and to solve the problem of planting trees and shrubs and to improve the town. The aim was to create the so-called "green corridor". The "green corridor" is a system of territories, situated along town ponds: new and old parks, sugars, historical sights, sports grounds and places for social programmers and places where our citizens and guests can have a rest.

The Fund of Russian - American project was created in 1996. The main aim was to support taut practical measures in solving ecological problems and to improve the state of the citizens' health by financing the projects which won in the competition. Financial supporting was given by the USA Agency USEPA and ISL helped to organize the work.

It may be used at English lessons showing the beauty and culture of our towns.

Working on the project we used the materials from scientific literature and the information from web-sites, devoted to the ecological and social problems of N. Tagil and Chattanooga.