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Description
The implementation of the projects will contribute to increasing the awareness of students and teachers in the field of climate change, as well as reducing local greenhouse gas emissions. Green and blue investments will show in a real way how to deal with the effects of climate change locally.
Apart from the infrastructure construction itself, the project will enable students and teachers to learn about climate change mitigation and adaptation to it. Students will have the opportunity to spread gained knowledge around. The websites used in the projects will be presented on a dedicated website, in social media and in the media, including translations into other languages, in order to cover the widest possible scope of the project with the inhabitants of the MA G-G-S.
A campaign to increase growth in the field of climate change. It will cover min. 32 thousand people (including students) and will build 5 types of infrastructure on school grounds.
Inhabitants of the Metropolitan Area, environmental activists, students and teachers of Partner schools will benefit from the project and gain knowledge in the field of climate change.
The project will be implemented with 40 partners (schools) who will make their premises available for investments, and they will indicate teachers and students with whom we will conduct education. The role of the Partner in Gdańskie Wody will be to provide substantive care over the infrastructure under construction. The foreign partner is International Development Norway, who will ensure the transfer of knowledge and good practices.
Summary of project results
The project aimed to raise public awareness of residents of the Gdańsk-Gdynia-Sopot Metropolitan Area, located in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, in the field of mitigating climate change and adapting to its effects. This area is inhabited by almost 1.6 million residents. The main task of the project was to deepen the knowledge of residents and students on the problems related to climate change and ways to mitigate and adapt to them by implementing local adaptation and mitigation solutions that will contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The project''s assumption is to build blue-green investments in 40 schools, which will clearly and accessibly show how to deal with the effects of climate change locally. This is so important that before the project began, the partner schools did not have infrastructure for water retention. The implementation of the investment is intended to reduce the occurrence of local flooding and drought periods in an area susceptible to these atmospheric phenomena. An important element of the project is educational activities due to the very little knowledge of the society about the need for water retention and the possibility of taking individual initiatives to counteract the occurrence of droughts. The development of climate education took place through training for teachers, classes in 40 partner schools, organization of a competition for young people promoting actions mitigating the effects of climate change and educational materials prepared as part of the project. An educational and promotional campaign was also carried out for the local community using communication tools created as part of the project.
Blue-green investments were built in 40 schools in the Pomeranian metropolis. 11 green walls were created, which protect against the sun and noise, 3 retention basins and 22 ground and box rain gardens, which collect rainwater and can become an oasis of biodiversity, as well as 4 composters, thanks to which it is possible to manage leftovers from the canteen. The investments support the mitigation of climate change and adaptation to its effects. The cost of all investments is almost PLN 1.5 million.
As part of the project, specialists in ecological education trained over 90 teachers of nature, biology and geography, who conducted a total of 645 lessons for almost 11 thousand students. As part of five training courses, partners from Norway shared their experiences from the implementation of investments and educational projects on water retention and protection of biodiversity. The project''s subject matter experts showed teachers examples of rain gardens and green walls implemented in Gdańsk. Each teacher received specially developed lesson plans. Ecological education experts have prepared a set of scenarios that can be used during lessons on climate change in biology, nature and geography. The scenarios are useful when organising classes, e.g. on the occasion of Earth Day, Water Day and Biodiversity Day. The scenarios were prepared with students in grades IV and V of primary schools and grades I and II of secondary schools in mind. However, due to their flexible formula, they can also be used in other classes. Printed scenarios were delivered to approximately 600 schools in the Pomeranian Voivodeship. Additionally, a package of educational materials (scenario attachments) was prepared, which include multimedia presentations, educational boards, worksheets, boards, quizzes and games. All materials are available on the project website, in the downloads tab. 40 schools also received multimedia equipment (laptops, projectors, interactive monitors) for PLN 300.000.
As part of the project, a competition was organised “Let''s protect the climate of the metropolis” for students of primary and secondary schools. The competition involved preparing an initiative that not only counteracts the effects of climate change, but also engages the local community. Over 90 students from 28 schools submitted their works. The best were 4 groups from: VII High School in Gdańsk, Primary School in Chwaszczyno, First Social Primary School in Gdynia and Primary School in Sztutowo. As a reward, 12 students and their teachers went on a study visit to Trondheim in April 2024. For 5 days, they got to know the city, met with Norwegian students and presented their eco-initiatives that can help fight climate change, visited museums, tried delicacies and were inspired by blue-green solutions in schools. The students also met with peers from Sverresborg Ungdom Skole and took part in a mini innovation camp, which consisted of developing an innovation on one of the selected topics: ecological, social or using new technologies. They also visited the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, where they visited university departments, saw training rooms and learned more about studying at NTNU.
As part of the project, 40 blue-green investments were created (one investment in each school): 11 green walls, 3 retention basins, 22 ground and box rain gardens and 4 composters. Each of the 40 schools participating in the project received multimedia equipment (laptops, projectors, interactive monitors), which will help in educating about climate change. A package of educational materials on the effects of climate change was prepared. They are available for free use on the website https://klimatwszkolach.pl/o-projekcie/materialy-do-pobrania/. In addition, lesson plans prepared and printed as part of the project were delivered to about 600 schools from the Pomeranian Voivodeship. Over 90 teachers of nature, biology and geography were trained, who conducted a total of 645 lessons for almost 11 thousand students. Over 90 students from 28 schools prepared and implemented initiatives to counteract the effects of climate change as part of the competition "Let''s protect the climate of the metropolis". 12 students and 4 teachers won a 5-day study trip to Trondheim, Norway, as the main prize in the competition.
Summary of bilateral results
The cooperation with the foreign partner International Development Norway was aimed at exchanging knowledge and experiences. One of the elements was the transfer of knowledge from the partner''s country. During the implementation of the project, it was verified whether the partner''s Norwegian experiences could be implemented in Poland. The foreign partner prepared educational materials for the implementation of the project. They were presented during training for teachers, in which a total of over 90 people participated. In addition, the foreign partner prepared and implemented a study visit program in Trondheim, Norway, on April 9-13, 2024. The study visit was attended by 12 students and 4 teachers, winners of the "Let''s protect the climate of the metropolis" competition.