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Description
The main objective of the Project is to raise awareness of mitigation and adaptation on climate change among pupils, teachers and the public by focusing on theoretical education together with practical implementation. Within the Project, the primary goal is to raise awareness of the importance of waste sorting and elimination, to focus on waste recovery, to promote and conserve flora and fauna in school campus.
Main Project activities are the following:
- Thematic updating of curricula of existing subjects,
- Elaboration of the School Environmental Program,
- Use of solar powered streetlights to light up the outdoor area of the campus,
- Installation of waste bins for waste separation and building a composter,
- Creating an herb garden with irrigation, building an insect house,
- Building an educational trail for students and for the public on the school premises,
- Using the rainwater for irrigation - placing a rainwater collection tanks,
- Increasing the percentage of greenery - planting of trees as a part of the leisure time activity together with Partners.
There are 3 Slovak Project Partners involved in the Project: the Primary School of Jozef Cíger Hronský in Krupina, the City of Krupina and the Urban Forests company.
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 solar energy, water retention, waste reduction and 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.
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,
- Installation of solar energy for street lightening,
- Installation of waste bins in classrooms and building composter in school campus,
- Installation of rainwater collection tank,
- Creation of bio garden and building insect house,
- Planting fruit trees and greenery with lower irrigation requirements.
Overall, 5 physical climate change responsive measures were carried out in school and school campus, more than 500 students participated the awareness raising campaign and 10 open access education materials were created.
The Project reached more than 1 thousand of persons selfreporting having more climate friendly behaviour due to implemented Project activities with impact mainly on students and general public as beneficiaries.