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Description
The Project is carried out in the school where are taught children with special disabilities, coming from a socially low-income environment and marginalized Roma groups.
The Project would like to enrich the pleasant environment in the school by their green activities where various competitions, lectures and meetings with other schools take place. The Project is focuses on simple tasks, primarily manual and teaching to live a real life.
The aim is to increase the pupils possibilities in the next professional life after finishing elementary school and shifting information not only to their parents but later also to the next generations.
Project activities are the following:
- Curriculum with environmental issues – worksheets focused on observation, active gathering of information, evaluation and selfjudgment will be elaborated,
- Educational material,
- Reduction of waste generation providing sorting bins for each class,
- Ecopedagogical equipment (raised pots and purpose gardens) - greenery care will be carried out by pupils under the guidance of educators. Containers with greenery and labels will form the basis for the application of soft measures - activating teaching methods,
- Educational environment,
- Green interior directly linked to soft measures: activating teaching methods (curriculum updating) and creating educational materials.
Summary of project results
The Project aimed to address following challenges in the field of climate change adaptation and mitigation:
- systematic education of students in the special elementary school in Partizánske with the special requirement, educates mentally handicapped pupils, teaching them about basic standard of living – included the title: “We learn to live” of the project on impact of climate change and measures to mitigate and adapt to climate change, dealing with elementary absence of a common understanding of life, including the water cycle and other aspects of the living environment of basic standard of focus on water retention, waste reduction and increase percentage of greenery
- implement hard measures on climate change adaptation being in synergy with soft educational activities to reach energy savings, support waste separation, rainwater retention, biodiversity and share of greenery.
- Building eco-pedagogical areas/training, building elements of blue infrastructure, energy savings
Following Project activities were implemented within the Project:
- Environmental education through updated curricula of existing subjects, new school environmental program focused mainly on plants growing, forestry and waste sorting, educational trail for the pupils with special requirement focused on observation, active gathering of information, evaluation and self-judgment
- Reduction of waste generation by sorting containers
- Eco pedagogical equipment - enhancing physical mitigation and adaptation measures at school, actively involving pupils in raising awareness,
- Green interior, pot green for classes,
- Installation of Solar system including individual halogen lamps by luminaires with built-in photovoltaic cells with rechargeable batteries
- Installation of waste bins in classrooms and building composter in school campus,
- Creation of bio garden and building insect house,
- Planting fruit trees and greenery with lower irrigation requirements
- Building eco-pedagogical areas/training
Overall, 4 physical climate change responsive measures were carried out in school and school campus, more than 900 students participated the awareness raising campaign and 4 open access education materials were created.
Activities realized within the project was aimed to facilitate primarily pupil under 17 years. However, secondly their parents were educated as well. Children in Partizanske school are physically or mentally disadvantaged and therefore special and individual approach was absolutely necessary. Some of them are came from a marginalized Roma minority. Finding the right approach to communication was very difficult with this group, so the project promoter was trying to do the activities in a simple and understandable form, focusing on simple tasks, primarily on manual works. However, pupils were able to deep themselves into their activities and, after repeated repetitions, have acquired new habits.
The Project reached more than 900 of persons selfreporting having more climate friendly behaviour due to implemented Project activities with impact mainly on students and general public as beneficiaries.