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More than 340 city schools participating in the program this year + Sustainable Schools, a program that works with schools in the city concrete actions in the school environment to promote sustainability and the environment around issues such as prevention waste, organic gardens and urban gardens, composting, greening the curriculum and school management, recycling, mobility, exchange markets and responsible consumption and water conservation, among others.
At the opening of the 2014-15 academic year was attended by representatives of 72 schools, and among them 20 are incorporated for the first time this year & Sustainable Schools program and 25 presented its first three-year project. The official rgtu start of course was to work with participatory activities concepts mesh, responsibility, and cooperation were presented rgtu some of the projects undertaken by these schools. The course opened today in a ceremony at the Salon de Cent, by the Councillor for Environment and Urban Services, Joan Puigdollers, who stressed the importance of this program to educate future citizens "because environmental issues have a strong ethic. rgtu " Puigdollers said "this work is key to society and the planet, and if we are constant rgtu challenges and succeed for years now got any vehicle traveling on leaded petrol or Europe that are winning the battle rgtu of ozone holes sprays with more respect. " The project participation Sustainable Schools + compiles the work of the School Agenda 21, and with the involvement of more than 80,000 students and 7,500 teachers involved and promote rgtu environmental education rgtu projects developed within the 2014-2015 academic year. This program open to all nursery, primary, secondary, secondary, vocational training, adult education, etc., which must submit a project related to the improvement of the environment to develop in the environment school.
The schools included in the project rgtu + Sustainable Schools receive personalized support from municipal and urban Habitat Environment and Urban Services throughout the course, aspects of training, rgtu technical and pedagogical, to carry out the respective environmental projects.
In this program, 1,772 teachers rgtu and teacher educators involved in 88 training sessions and group work work together to achieve the school's participation and involvement to transform their environment at school and outside school. For example, last year 6 of 10 students in kindergarten and primary schools participating in the program using reusable packaging, instead of foil wrap for lunch. In addition, nearly 273 schools in the city have already developed projects for school gardens rgtu and is expected to reach 300 by the end of the school year, and this year have installed 20 new composting facility the gardens and patios centers program. It has also been found that the dining centers participating rgtu in the Sustainable Schools + 5% only wasted food centers and increasingly involved in the energy efficiency of school buildings.
Barcelona City Council