OpenAID - AICS - XM-DAC-6-4-012618-01-2

LOD data

Green School Italy: network of schools and territories for sustainable developmen

Developing countries, unspecified

Status

Implementation

Aid type

Development awareness

Developing countries, unspecified

Location

€ 565,703
Committed

€ 226,281
Used

Description

The project is aimed at increasing public awareness on the issues of international development cooperation and on the 17 Sustanaible Development Goals. The project Green School Italy: network of schools and territories for sustainable development is the opportunity to enhance a consolidated, standardized and effective working model for the promotion and dissemination of good practices for sustainability, starting from schools to involve all local communities. The Green School programme began in 2009 in the province of Varese, as a grassroots initiative conceived by a pact of municipalities (Agenda 21 Laghi) with the NGO CAST and the University of Insubria, and haThe s been replicated, on the basis of the recognition of the results obtained, thanks to an AICS grant throughout Lombardy, involving since its beginning 619 schools, 146,414 students and 12,195 teachers. The Green School approach - and the objective of the Green School Italy project - is to provide tools for understanding the challenges posed by climate change and the global risks that we are all required to know, assess and deal with. Each risk must be alleviated by an effective behavior to reduce the speed of climate change, to control the resulting risks or to plan for a World more resilient to those changes, which cannot be avoided entirely. On these assumptions, teachers, students and communities learn about realistic mitigation strategies, designed to control and minimize their carbon footprint through conscious daily choices, but capable of producing impacts on global mitigation, or adaptation solutions, to maintain our biodiversity and essential productive capacity in a more challenging World, with more extreme climates and prolonged drought. The project starts in schools but reaches out to communities, transforming the social, economic and associative clusters into sustainability laboratories, able to conceive and implement co-projecting paths, with the creation of community educational pacts and the implementation of projects and concrete actions aimed at solving specific problems or enhancing unique opportunities identified in a very large territory, represented by 5 Italian regions in the North, Center and South of Italy. The initiative intends to involve 40,000 pupils aged 3 to 19 (from pre-school to secondary school) and 3,000 teachers from 250 Italian schools in 5 different regions, providing the tools, training and support to integrate good behavioral practices into daily educational objectives and practice. The good practices will become transversal training contents between the different school subjects, but also daily behaviors that students will incorporate into the management models of their own schools: they will stimulate the adoption of best performing energy saving measures, tools for the reduction of waste production and for its correct separation, for new approaches to school mobility, reducing private vehicles use. Students will know what it means in practice to implement strategies to reduce their carbon footprint, but they will also be able to measure it, as has been done in the past 13 years of implementation of the Green School model. The adoption of best practices, the measurement of the reduction of the impacts of schools and the students, teachers and active staff who populate them, the involvement of the community in which the school is located are the criteria that lead to be certificated as Green Schools. Each certified “Green” school not only demonstrates the ability to ensure optimal management of its environmental externalities, but also the ability to play a role in raising awareness in its community. read more close

Year	Committed	Used
2022	€ 565,703	€ 226,281

Agency

Type	Name	Channel code
Government	AICS - Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development	11000

Channel reported

Type	Name	Channel code
Government	PROVINCIA DI VARESE EPE	11002

Project data

IATI IdentifierXM-DAC-6-4-012618-01-2
AID012618/01/2
CRS Activity identifier2022000371
Planned start 2022/10/01
Planned End 2024/09/30
Actual start 2022/11/10
Actual end -
Bi/Multilateral Bilateral
Status Implementation
Tied status Tied

Sectors

Policy markers

Gender Equality not targeted
Disaster Risk Reduction(DRR) not targeted
Disability not targeted
Nutrition not targeted
Aid to Environment significant objective
Participatory Development/Good Governance not targeted
Trade Development not targeted
Aid Targeting the Objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity not targeted
Aid Targeting the Objectives of the Framework Convention on Climate Change - Mitigation not targeted
Aid Targeting the Objectives of the Framework Convention on Climate Change - Adaptation not targeted
Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (RMNCH) not targeted

SDGs

11.6 - By 2030, reduce the adverse per capita environmental impact of cities, including by paying special attention to air quality and municipal and other waste management
12.3 - By 2030, halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses
12.5 - By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse
13.3 - Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning
17.7 - Promote the development, transfer, dissemination and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies to developing countries on favourable terms, including on concessional and preferential terms, as mutually agreed
4.7 - By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development