Activities

Peipsi Center for Transboundary Cooperation (Peipsi CTC) works since 1994 with regional development and cross border cooperation topics; more specifically in the sphere of  Community development and heritage, Envrionmental awareness and water management, Cross border- and developemnt cooperation. 

Our focus is the transboundary Lake Peipsi region, but we have been working also with numerous EU and Eastern partnership countries. With over 25 years of experience, CTC has worked with educational institutions, NGOs, local communities and museums not only in the Estonian-Latvian-Russian border areas, but also in countries such as Moldova, Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia and various Balkan countries.


We use innovative and interactive methods in informal education and many of our materials are in online format:

- we have developed online web quizzes our region cultural and natural heritage, history topics (available in Estonian, Russian, English languages: https://ctc.ee/quizzes. 

- We have developed around 10 educational videos on Lake Peipsi biodiversity, climate change, heritage plants, oil shale mining etc.https://ctc.ee/publications/videos. we have developed natural and cultural heritage orientation games (using telephone App).

- last years we started to use and have developed several LARPs (Live Action Role Play) game in education


In developement cooperation field:  We have organised water management and public involvement related projects in the Tajikistan , Moldova-Ukrainian, Kyrgyztan-Kasakhstan, Albania-Macedonian, Armenian-georgia, etc border regions. 

Last years we have worked with our Tajikistan, Georgian, Belarus and Modova partners with their social- and women entrepreneurship projects.

Have a closer look to our implemented projects
Peipsi CTC is a founding member of Estonian Roundtable for Development Cooperation

Our goal is to promote environmental and climate awareness, to compile and offer the active learning study programmes for pupils, training programmes for teachers, specialists and enterpreneurs. We're offering 11 different study programmes (incl work sheets) for pupils.

Peipsi CTC is a member of the global network Living Lakes

Peipsi CTC organizes capacity building training for different stakeholder groups on cultural heritage, youth work. We work together with NGOs, schools, museums. We develop heritage related materials (quizzes, puzzles, exhibitions), videos etc.

in 2023 Peipsi CTC was awarded for the Peipsimaa Heritage Trail development.