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Description
The Project is crucial in eliminating of climate change impacts in the school premises and the outer space. The Project builds on previous activities on climate change adaptation, incl. the Project “Blue School”. In the Project, a combination of soft and hard measures is planned in order to raise the awareness on climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Soft measures:
- Revising parts of curricula of existing subjects (implementing topics of climate change mitigation and climate change adaptation),
- Elaborating worksheets,
- Installing appliances for measuring the water quality (conductometer, PH metres etc.),
- Promotional and educational materials on recycling in cooperation with the collection and disposal waste company OLO,
- Raising awareness on climate change mitigation and adaptation (events, e.g. voluntary work, discussions, presentations, lectures, workshops, exhibitions within the school).
Hard measures:
- Greenery ratio increase (planting utility plants, planting fruit trees, trees revitalisation),
- Waste production decrease (installing collection containers),
- Building ecoeducational areas (herb gardens, bio-gardens using rain water irrigation system),
- Support of suitable microclimate for students (fountain),
- Water retention measures (installing surface collection containers for rain water),
- Decrease of vulnerability of soil against longterm droughts (planting ground-covering plants),
- Infiltration capacity increase (removing concrete areas by permeable semivegetative blocks).
The Project aim is to carry on with improving the school and local environment fluently and raising the awareness of the mentioned environmental issues of not only students but the entire local community directly.
Summary of project results
The Project aimed to address following challenges in the field of climate change adaptation and mitigation:
- systematic education of students on impact of climate change and measures to mitigate and adapt to climate change with focus on soft separating activities, energy savings, how to grow plants and greenery etc.,
- implement hard measures on climate change adaptation being in synergy with soft educational activities to reach waste separation, eco-educational area, soil improvment, shading equipment, water collection and share of greenery.
Following Project activities were implemented within the Project:
- environmental education through updated curricula of existing subjects focused mainly on mitigation and adaptation to climate change (recycling materials atc.), worksheets, workshops etc.
- eco-educational area (herb garden with fountain with solar source),
- instalation of rain collection container,
- gardening tools for educational purposes,
- expanded green infrastructure (utility plants, fruit trees, sakura trees, trees revitalisation, self-watering pots with plants in the hall),
- removing concrete areas by permeable semi-vegetative,
shading of the area.
Overall, 7 physical climate change responsive measures were carried out in school and school campus, 1,000 students participated the awareness raising campaign and 22 open access education materials were created.
The Project reached 2,100 of persons selfreporting having more climate friendly behaviour due to implemented Project activities with impact mainly on students and general public as beneficiaries.