CESERE brings together research, education, and community engagement to strengthen security of communities and society, environmental sustainability, and resilience in Europe and beyond.
Our Focus
- Consultations, applied research and strategic analysis – sustainability, security, and resilience studies and solutions.
- Education and training – environmental awareness programmes for youth and professionals.
- Community engagement – workshops, local initiatives, and participatory projects for resilience and sustainability.
- Practitioners engagement and cooperation – we engage security, community and environmental practitioners in projects.
- International collaboration – global partnerships for EU-funded projects and networking.
Our Impact Since 2018
- over 4100 young people in our environmental education and environmental security programs,
- 10+ international and national research, development and innovation projects on security, sustainability and resilience,
- 11+ community security, resilience and environmental education projects,
- 9 weekly hobby school groups per academic year in schools and kindergartens and as outdoor education in the forest near home,
- 7 professional networks on sustainability, environmental awareness and security,
- the title of social enterprise of the year in 2024,
- bronze level of the responsible business index 2024,
- international and national networks on security, environmental education, environmental awareness and sustainability with universities, think tanks, communities and companies.
Examples of the Projects
- C-SINK research hand innovation project. Carbon sequestration solutions to meet the European Union’s climate goals (2023-2027). Horizon Europe project. Role: task leader, analysis of possible solutions and scenarios, environmental monitoring, synthesis of results. See more detailed information about the C-SINK project here.
- Green technology environmental education and awareness project RoheTeh. Environmental protection and reducing environmental impact through green technologies (2022-2024). Role: responsible executor of the project, development of the study program, assembly of study materials, conducting trainings. Link to RoheTeh project website.
- Study of the resilience of communities and their organisations (2023, 2024). Role: coordination and conducting the study, analysis and synthesis of results. Esamples: Research report on crisis preparedness of residents of Harku municipality, Reseach report on crisis preparedness of residents of Muuga.
- Development project on analysis and improvement of community resilience and sustainability (2023-2025). Role: conducting practical outdoor trainings and seminars for resilience and crisis preparedness.
More about the projects see at CESERE projects page.
About us
We contribute to the sustainability and security of the environment and communities
CESERE SelgeSiht is a research-oriented SME that carries out projects and studies related to sustainability and environmental awareness. In addition, we also develop and conduct environmental education programs, seminars and practical outdoor activities in the nature.
Categories of our activities:
- Research and consultations on sustainability and environmental awareness and security
- Environmental education programs
- Environmental awareness and community involvement practice
- Outdoor seminars and other events and activities
Our mission is to support sustainability, security, well-being and environmental responsibility aspects of communities.
Our values are trustworthiness, competency and innovation.
We integrate research, development and innovation on community and environmental sustainability and security with practical activities in the area of environmental education, sustainable nature, cultural heritage and recreation.
Sustainability and Security Research
We conduct research and studies on environmental sustainability, safety and sustainability of communities, ecosystem services and societal wellbeing. We focus on multi-dimensional situation awareness (including fusion of sensory and other various data sources), scenario analysis and emergent behaviour analysis and simulation.
Our team comprises of specialists and researches from social and natural sciences, technology, security and environmental technology with the experience in international and national projects and frameworks (incl Horizon Europe, Horizon 2020, EDA, etc).
The sustainability and security research activities are described on the page CESERE Research and Education Centre.
Environmental Education Programs
SelgeSiht Environmental Education Centre conducts environmental education programs for schools. The main focus of the programs is on environmental awareness, sustainability and responsibility. We use outdoor learning methods in dedicated environments, mostly in forests including Near Forest concept and farm forests with continuous forest management principles. More than half of our environmental education programs carry the label “well thought out program”, issued by the Estonian Environmental Education Association.
Environmental Awareness and Community Involvement Practice
We emphasize the importance of increasing environmental awareness in decision making. Therefore we conduct training, seminars and awareness building for communities, local authorities and individuals.
We focus on sustainability, community resilience and security, natural diversity aspects and developing of ecosystem services in order to propagate the understanding the role of involvement of each person for keeping balance and guaranteeing long-term sustainability.
Seminars and other outoor activities
Our practical activities are related to environmental sustainability, balance and wellbeing, thus also supporting safety and security in communities. We believe that everyday practice will support the balance and integrity between principles and implementation. In practical activities, we focus primarily on nature education and environmental awareness, outdoor learning and hiking.
As one specific focus, we will be happy to propagate and help to understand and use the forest as a recreational area using study programs and activities. This approach and offered activities are in more detail described on the page Environmental Awareness.
You can also look at our Friendly Nature News and Blog, our photos in friendlynature.eu account in Instagram and videos in FriendlyNature channel in Facebook.
We consider hiking and easy walks in the nature as one recreational activity. Another approach is to sense the forest and nature using a mindfulness practice – forest bathing techniques. For forest owners, forest management using sustainable environmental management and supporting natural diversity using permanent and sustainable forestry approach with highlighting and creation of heritage culture and possible forest trails in order to maintain an emotional connection with the forest is a considerable choice.
Contact us: e-mail cesere@cesere.eu, phone: +31 85 345 8000 (The Netherlands, International) or +372 5918 8000 (Estonia).