The aim of the project is to promote general public awareness and education about biodiversity and climate issues, as well as general environmental processes, to improve public environmental awareness by investing in the improvement and development of the infrastructure of the Gauja National Park Nature Centre (which is also a tourist attraction), providing modern content and methods that would promote public understanding of biodiversity, climate issues and general environmental processes. Within the framework of the project, the project promoter – the Nature Conservation Agency – plans to carry out the construction of the Gauja National Park Nature Centre and the improvement and development of infrastructure, providing modern educational content and methods that would promote public understanding of biodiversity, climate issues and general environmental processes, as well as Natura 2000 sites in Latvia, their role in the preservation of biodiversity, with a thematic focus on climate change and its mitigation measures, rock outcrops and caves, as well as the history of Latvian geology: including the establishment of a nature centre: 1) Reconstruction of the building complex at 1 Baznicas Street, Sigulda; 2)Establishment of laboratory and classrooms; 3)Development of indoor exhibitions; 4)Outdoor class and territory improvement.Target groups of project activities: Pupils and students, nature tourists of the Gauja National Park (both local and foreign), teachers of natural sciences, inhabitants of the Gauja National Park and the surrounding area and representatives of municipalities, families with children. The project will result in: 1) one nature centre of the Gauja National Park has been established to develop and promote environmental and nature awareness in society and 2) it will reach at least 80 000 visitors at the end of the first year of post-monitoring, which is expected to be provided with the infrastructure and equipment created by the project. The total indicative financing of the project is planned at EUR 4 970 495.43, including EUR 4 224 921.12 from the European Regional Development Fund and EUR 745 574.31 from national co-financing from the State budget. The planned duration of the project is 60 months (provisionally from January 2025 to 31 December 2029).