Schools for Sustainable Development
Schools for Sustainable Development (SSD):
The Schools for Sustainable Development is a joint program of EPSD and Groundwork UK open to schools and communities in the United Kingdom, Poland and the Czech Republic. The programme aims to promote Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and local community environmental action. Projects focus on reducing the environemtnal footprint of schools through energy, waste and water reduction programs as well as environmental protection and imporvement of public spaces. It gives people the opportunity to make improvements in their neighbourhood and create improvements for the whole community to enjoy.
Aims of the program:
- Promote engagement and commitment to participative regeneration – joining schools and communities in the process of identification, preparation and realization of projects improving the local environment and promoting the use of methods of community planning.
- Implement projects improving the local environment – financial support and assistance with the projects initiated by schools that will remarkably improve the local environment.
- Environmental education for sustainable development – linking lessons to practical life, including development of skills needful for solving real life`s problem in school educational program, offering instructive program, making printed and electronic materials, fulfilling state program of environmental education for sustainable development.
- Address Energy and Climate Change – investments in model schools to implement larger energy saving investments to reach significant energy savings (e.g. CO2 reductions) by combining energy performance contracting (EPC) with education and awareness campaign towards latest trends in building.
- Pan-European Network– creating European net of schools and projects, which will enable sharing experience of making school-community partnership, focused on practical projects.
