Green management In schools For Sustainability
GIFs2022-1-RO01-KA220-SCH-000088088
GIFs project aims at promoting green building practices at the European levels to address environmental needs and will raise schools’staff and teachers’awareness and provide them with knowledge and competences regarding how to put in place green building practices and what are the methodologies that can be used to involve the students into the process of implementation of such practices.
Period: 01.09.2022 – 31.08.2024
Project objectives are:
Objective 1: Provide teachers and schools’staff members with knowledge regarding green building practices and methodologies on how to implement them in their schools
Objective 2: Provide teachers and schools’staff members with methodologies on how to raise students awareness on green building practices and involve them in the process of implementing them at schools
Objective 3: Promote European schools’cooperation on green building practices
The achievement of these objectives will help schools and their students to fight against climate change through concrete solutions to be implemented, improve schools’ teachers and staff members competences in green building practices and support them in green education towards their students.
Activities:
- Creation of the Guide on Green Building practices which will explain the concept of green building practices and gather already existing good practices collected in the different partner countries;
- Creation of a Toolkit that will include some tools and methodologies to help schools to involve pupils in the green building practices and raise their awareness through NFE methodology;
- Joint Staff Training Event for trainers and teachers to learn how to engage and lead their pupils/learners into green management practices;
- Local activities to test the methodologies to start the process towards a green school building;
- Creation of the Green Schools Cooperation Committee (GSCC) where schools can brainstorm on new green building practices to be implemented in their schools;
- First Summit of the GSCC: the Committee will meet in order to report the practices implemented at this stage as well as the activities used with the students and will discuss further green building practices and actions to be implemented in their schools, how to implement them.
- Social Campaign: teachers, staff members and pupils will work together on a social campaign by posting on Instagram short videos/pictures of what is done in the school to become Green Buildings and by using a hashtag to be defined among the partners (e.g. #GreenYourSchool).
Target Groups: The project will involve 2 different targets of participants:
Direct: Schools staff, teachers, youth workers
Indirect: Local school pupils; Educational institutions/bodies/NGOs/Youth centers
Results:
- Increasing cooperation on green building practices
- 1 Guide explaining the general concept of green building practices and such practices can be implemented in schools with concrete examples of existing practices already implemented in European schools;
- The concrete implementation of green building practices in the participating schools.
- 1 Toolkit containing Non-Formal Education activities to involve the students in the process of implementation of green building practices. The Toolkit will also contain a guideline to help Schools to implement these activities.
- Creation of a European School Green Council;
- The first Summit of the ESGC.
- Increasing the project’s visibility at the local, regional, national and European level;
- Creating a project’ website where all the materials produced will be uploaded and accessible to the large public;
- Create a basis for future project ideas and actions to insure the project’s long-term existence and impact.
