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Description
The aim of the Project is to create an environment at school that will systematically lead children to develop the right habits and teach them to perceive climate change, the consequences of human behaviour towards the Earth and have started to change from themselves.
The second step will be to orient the change in thinking and behaviour to our surroundings and to share the acquired attitudes and habits.
The ambition of the Project is to improve the school environment and the teaching process. The intention is, that students will feel comfortable in the school and perceive it as a modern, keeping up with current trends, active, bringing innovation and space for development.
The Project combines the following soft and hard measures:
- Updating the curriculum to incorporate Environmental issues,
-Material and organizational provision of teaching,
- Building a gazebo for the ecological classroom,
-Building an Eco-pedagogical jungle gym,
-Water retention measures (pots with water collecting containers),
-Increasing the proportion of greenery,
-Educational materials,
-Publicity and awareness raising activities.
Students, parents, siblings, grandparents will benefit from the results of the Project.
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 rainwater use and greenery,
- implement hard measures on climate change adaptation being in synergy with soft educational activities to support outdoor education, water management and share of interior and exterior greenery.
Following Project activities were implemented within the Project:
- environmental education through revision of the school curriculum subject,
- building outdoor Eco-classroom,
- construction of educational climbing frame with a cognitive path,
- installation of rain water containers for gathering rainwater and its further use in school campus,
- installation of green plant pictures in classrooms,
- awareness raising activities on climate change topics such as waste collection, biodiversity, water management.
Overall, 4 physical climate change responsive measures were carried out in school and school campus, more than 300 students participated the awareness raising campaign on climate change mitigation and adaptation and 5 open access education materials were created.
The Project reached more than 1,500 persons selfreporting having more climate friendly behaviour due to implemented Project activities with impact mainly on pupils as beneficiaries.