Edugreen: sustainable labs
Basic information
Project Title
Edugreen: sustainable labs
Full project title
Edugreen: sustainable labs
Category
Reconnecting with nature
Project Description
"Agriculture 4.0": creating educational workshops within the rural field, by using digital tools such as the hydroponic technology, i.e. a method of growing plants in water rich in mineral nutrients instead of soil
Geographical Scope
Local
Project Region
Italy
Urban or rural issues
Mainly rural
Physical or other transformations
It refers to other types of transformations (soft investment)
EU Programme or fund
Yes
Which funds
ERDF : European Regional Development Fund
Description of the project
Summary
The initiative aims to promote the realization of educational laboratories for sustainable nutrition, ones for the use of renewable energy and energy efficiency; it also implies the creation of sustainable laboratories to study and to test the impact of human actions on the environment, on waste production, on air quality, on water consumption, energy, soil and other natural resources, and for waste recycling. It also deals with a new form of agriculture, so-called "agriculture 4.0"
Key objectives for sustainability
The initiative demonstrates how the use of renewable energy sources can be used to provide a better way of living for the present and future generations, thus ensuring sustainable production and consuming patterns.
Key objectives for aesthetics and quality
To create the laboratories many areas were embellished taking into account the need to reshape the surrounding environment to make it more pleasing and sustainable for the community and also to strenghten the sense of belonging to the territory.
Key objectives for inclusion
As mentioned above to strenghten the sense of belonging to the territory, the project involved not only the students, teachers and the school staff but also the locals, especially the elderly, who took active partecipation in the process of realization of the laboratories.
Results in relation to category
The physical transformation of a specific area of the school as been completed successfully and is the fundamental part to implement the further steps: gardening, farming, production and consuming of green products (km zero). In addition, digital tools are used in order to trace the growing of the plants.
How Citizens benefit
Local citizens were involved in all the stages of the process on both a theoretical and practical levels. To make an example, the grandparents of the student were involved under the name of "nonni/e contadini/e" (grandparents farmers). They gave all the necessary advices to achieve the expected results and most importantly they showed how to harvest, to sow, to seed, to plant the soil
Physical or other transformations
It refers to other types of transformations (soft investment)
Innovative character
The project goes towards the active partecipation of all the people involved at variuous levels, thus for example studying the solar system is not just about visiting a planetarium but it is practically and physically made by the students and the other partecipants.
Disciplines/knowledge reflected
All of the disciplines were involved in the process to ensure a cross curricular learning
Methodology used
The methodology used is the learning-by-doing
How stakeholders are engaged
Stakeholder at various levels were engaged in the implementation of the initiative, for example by making the materials available and by grants
Global challenges
3. good health and well being
4. quality education
7. affordable and clean energy
11. sustainable cities and communities
12. responsible consumption and production
4. quality education
7. affordable and clean energy
11. sustainable cities and communities
12. responsible consumption and production
Learning transferred to other parties
This initiative could be easily transferred and currently it is in the making in other school levels.
Keywords
Environment
Sustainability
Digital
Inclusion
Change
