Contemporary life-style focused on consumption leads man to see nature merely as a sum of resources that’s value is derived just from their immediate utility. He tends to forget that he did not create this unique mechanism, that he is just a part of it. This perception of the world leads to social and regional disparities, racial, ethnic and religious conflicts, poverty, expansion of violence, corruption and devastation of the environment. The devastation results in loss of biodiversity, plundering of forests and rainforests, global climate change and increasing greenhouse effect, exhaustion of finite resources, and a deterioration of landscape, soils and water sources.

Fortunately, there are still many people around us who do not identify with this philosophy of social-economic progress and realize the limits and unsustainability of permanent economic progress in the world of limited resources. The Environmental Program of the Ekopolis Foundation strives to support individuals, groups and organizations, who are able to discover sustainable solutions and endeavor to apply them in everyday life.  

Goal of the program

To enforce systemic changes in environmental protection and transparency in decision-making processes and implementation of sustainable development principles.

Eligible applicants

Slovak non-governmental non-profit organizations

Supported activities

We support mainly activities advocating the right to live in a healthy environment and in area of public control of power and effective participation in decision-making on important issues, mainly:

• monitoring of preparation and implementation of legislation and policies in environmental area; preparation of alternative proposals, positions and recommendations based on surveys, studies and position documents;
• activities against development and infrastructural projects with negative impact on the environment
• capacity building of organizations in relevance to the above mentioned

Maximum grant amount

1.700 EUR 

Advisory Board

Dana Mareková, VIA IURIS, Bratislava
Eva Kovačechová, advokátka, Ponická Huta
Jaroslav Pavlovič, EQ Klub, Pezinok
Juraj Smatana, Klub Strážov, Považská Bystrica
Sylva Mertanová, CHKO Biele Karpaty, Karpatské ochranárske združenie altruistov, Trenčín