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Description
Project improves the level of awareness about climate adaptation and mitigation among the pupils of secondary schools, as the future generation that will be forced to tackle the climate crisis, helping them to understand the climate agenda and preparing them to fight the climate crisis, starting the action within their communities reaching the global United Nations´ Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Nr. 13 Climate Action - Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts. Project also targets the general public concentrated around secondary schools, like teachers, school staff, family, relatives and friends. Project reacts to the Sectoral concept of environmental education, training and awareness until 2025, the activities should focus on the environmental literacy, the ways how to solve the environmental issues, understand own responsibility, assess and communicate the current status of environment, and to reason the attitudes. The need is also supported by the Regional strategy of education and training at secondary schools in Košice region for 2021 – 2025. The project is the follow-up project of joint green activities realized within the consortium, like establishment of circular economy hub and joint manifest of transition towards circular economy in Košice region, or pilot demonstrations of effective food waste solutions at secondary schools´ canteens in Košice region have been implemented.
Summary of project results
The Project aimed to address following challenges in the field of climate change adaptation and mitigation:
- informal education of pupils and youth on impact of climate change and measures to mitigate and adapt to climate change with focus on water management, food waste, circular economy and greenery,
- implement hard measures on climate change adaptation being in synergy with soft educational activities to reach rainwater retention, bio-waste and share of greenery.
Following Project activities were implemented within the Project:
- game for secondary school – 7 planned thematic climate campaigns – consisting videos, knowledge presented in attractive way, quiz-for-fun features, with additional motivational system implemented increasing the user interaction,
- 7 thematic campaigns on climate adapation and mitigation conducted via serious game and social media (the earth in crisis, drought, floods, fossil fuels, soil and forests, landfills and waste, industrial gases),
- the implementation of the demonstration measures as the educational areas (rain garden, green walls (external and internal), electric composters for kitchen bio-waste, recycling bins),
Overall, 25 awareness raising activities were carried out with more than 29,000 attendees reached.
The Project reached almost 2,300 persons selfreporting having more climate friendly behaviour due to implemented Project activities with impact mainly on pupils of secondary school and their relatives.
Summary of bilateral results
Bilateral Partner, Smart Innovation Norway AS (NO), shared knowledge and worked together on soft measures during joint meetings in Slovakia and organised workshops for pupils.