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In Romanian schools, environmental and sustainable development education is not part of the compulsory curriculum. At the same time, more than two thirds of young people believe that the number one priority for EU action over the next ten years should be protecting the environment and combating climate change.
In the absence of systematic education efforts by the authorities, citizens'' interventions in this regard depend more on arbitrary circumstances: the good chance to live in a community with access to educational opportunities, to learn in school to take care of the environment or to be part of a family that can prioritise this aspect of education.
The intervention takes place in two stages. In the first stage, students are educated through a series of workshops, having the opportunity to discuss and debate the initiatives they themselves propose.
In the second stage, a study visit to Ciugud (an example of good practice) will be organised, so that students have the opportunity to get to know a community where local public authorities prioritise environmental protection. The project ends with a visit to the Green Mogo Energy Training and Advisory Centre and an exercise to formulate a national advocacy objective. The intervention is designed so that the young people involved in the project understand both their role and that of local public authorities in solving environmental problems in their community. The project partner, the Romanian Centre for European Policy, one of the oldest think tanks in Romania, will be involved in the educational activities of the project.
The target group of the project consists of 4 classes of technological high school, from Brănești (Ilfov county) and Lehliu-Gară (Călărași county), localities where the concern for the environment is not a priority neither of the authorities nor of the community.