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Description
The main Project output is to carry out raising activities on climate change mitigation and adaptation including awareness raising campaigns and physical climate change responsive measures. The Project is needed to increase the knowledge of students about protecting the environment with more specific focus on the context of climate change mitigation and adaptation. In addition, the unused areas in the school campus will be revitalized and used in the environmental education.
The Project aims to increase awareness raising on climate change mitigation and adaptation among students through the implementation of the following soft and hard measures:
- Creation of educational material to ensure the teaching of pupils in the area of mitigation and adaptation to climate change (new subject Environmental education),
- Updating educational materials to ensure that pupils are trained in mitigation and adaptation to climate change and creating workbooks (updating the content of the courses English, Ethics, Chemistry, Geography, Physics and Biology),
- Increasing the proportion of greenery (creation of planting beds, park with greenery with lower demands on irrigation),
- Reduction of waste generation and its further use (installation of big bins for separating waste outside in the school yard),
- Creation of Eco classroom with the use of natural and technical elements (including conference part with greenery covering the wall and the roof),
- Creation of miniarboretum and information panels
- Installation of a subsurface rainwater collection vessel and irrigation system (installation of subsurface rainwater tank, irrigation system, monitoring of rainfall),
- Informing the public (posters, workshops, conferences, leaflets, discussions).
The cooperation with the Slovak Project Partner – the Primary School in the City of Šurany includes practical use of the eco-classroom in the education process as well as information activities within the awareness raising campaign.
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 water retention, waste reduction and increase percentage of greenery
- implement hard measures on climate change adaptation being in synergy with soft educational activities to support waste separation, rainwater retention, biodiversity and share of greenery.
- Building eco-pedagogical area for education.
Following Project activities were implemented within the Project:
- Development of curriculum for the new subject Environmental education,
- Updating educational materials on English, Ethics, Chemistry, Geography, Physics and Biology by topic of climate change mitigation and adaptation,
- Increasing the proportion of greenery,
- Reduction of waste generation and its further use,
- Creation of Eco classroom with the use of natural and technical elements,
- Creation of mini-arboretum and informational panels,
- Installation of a subsurface rainwater collection vessel and irrigation system.
Overall, 8 physical climate change responsive measures were carried out in school and school campus, more than 200 students participated the awareness raising campaign and 33 open access education materials were created.
The Project reached more than 300 persons selfreporting having more climate friendly behaviour due to implemented Project activities with impact mainly on students and general public as beneficiaries.