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Description
The Project focuses on environmental education, which is not only a cross-cutting theme of each school curriculum, but also an important factor for sustainable development. The Project combines soft and hard measures and the following activities are included in the Project:
- Innovative curricula for education in mitigation and adaptation to climate change (adding new content to existing objects, innovations in methodology, organizational forms),
- Creation of worksheets and interactive games in environmental education (on topics: use of alternative energy sources, sorting and recycling of waste, ecological farming based on regional resources),
- Lectures by external environmental experts, lectures and workshops by participating pupils,
- Contests (literary, graphic, creativity, photographic),
- Workshops for the public,
- Increasing the percentage of greenery,
- Building ecopedagogical areas/training areas using natural and technical elements,
- Energy saving,
- Reducing waste generation and recovery,
- Water retention measures,
- Promoting biodiversity,
- Building elements of blue infrastructure,
- Awareness raising activities: lectures and workshops for partners, lectures for students of other primary schools, lectures for pupils of other secondary schools, determination of feedback, activities to promote the Project results.
There are three Slovak Project Partners involved: the City of Hriňová, the Primary School in the City of Detva and Primary School in the Municipality of Kriváň. Partners´contribution is as follows: to innovate education content, to provide contacts to professional staff, to participate in the implementation of technical measures, to participate in conferences and events for the public.
Summary of project results
- Creation of worksheets and interactive games in environmental education (on topics: use of alternative energy sources, sorting and recycling of waste, ecological farming based on regional resources)
- to modernize the school curriculum in terms of content, methods and forms of learning, to implement technical measures to mitigate and adapte on climate change
- 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
- Environmental education through updated curricula of existing subjects, new school environmental program focused mainly on plants growing, forestry and waste sorting, educational trail,
- Installation 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
- Building eco-pedagogical areas/training
- Building elements of blue infrastructure
Overall, 7 physical climate change responsive measures were carried out in school and school campus, more than 2000 students participated the awareness raising campaign and 10 open access education materials were created. The implemented project in accordance with the project contract and application managed to organize lectures and workshops at all partner primary schools as well as lectures by external experts, organized part of the lectures online, partly for the public in Detva and Hriňová. The innovated curriculum and teaching materials in the area of waste-free economy, ecological economy, renewable energy sources. Lecturers prepared information boards, processed teaching texts, worksheets, tests and presentations. Technical measures were being implemented in all involved organizations. The students involved were very inclined to implement the project. Based on the surveys conducted after the educational activities, was registered that their relationship with the environment was positively improved.