In the framework of the project Follow the Route of the Po Delta, during the Fair schools can participate in national and international contests, giving youngsters the opportunity to learn while having fun with their classmates or giving free run to their imagination in a nature painting contest. We propose the following:

• Photocontest junior: experienced birdwatchers dare each other to recognise birds from a just a few images. Let’s play this fantastic game together with the funny egret Sgarzy and its bird friends. All participants will receive the book published in cooperation with EBN.

• Contest The Delta in Comics: some characters, a general structure....the rest is up to your imagination. Let’s invent a story set in the Po Delta and then join us at the Fair to put it into comic strings together with the famous authors of Diabolik comics.

• Tweety in your garden 2005-2006: the project Birdgardening – How to transform an area of your garden to host wild birds will be presented at the Fair. The first 10 teachers to apply will participate in the 2006 Birdgardening School Contest and receive a learning kit teaching them how to teach birdgardening in the classroom and in the schoolyard. At the Birdwatching Fair 2006 the best projects will be awarded funds to buy new teaching material for the school.

• Nature painting LUONTO. A far-away land and a new word, LUONTO. Luonto means nature in Finnish. This initiative offers the opportunity to show our Finnish friends our landscape, with its colours and birds, while discovering the differences and similarities between our two countries. Age of participants 7-12; 13-16; 17-22.