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Eleven Years with Eco-Schools Frans Suell Upper Secondary School is on its eleventh year working with the Eco-Schools Programme. The latest theme was Consumption – a theme that engaged a lot of students. Among other things, they arranged a big swapping day at their school. TEXT PETRA HOLGERSSON PHOTO HÅKAN EKBERG the trademarks of the Frans Suell Upper Secondary School are handicraft, entrepreneurship and service. There are a number of vocational educations, such as the Food Program and the Hotel and Restaurant Program. Olle Bredin, contact person for the Eco-Schools programme, works at the Restaurant Program. “we work every day with the environmental aspects of the education,” says Olle. It becomes very concrete in the restaurant cuisine, which ranges from delicacies over take-away and classical restaurant food to large scale kitchen where we cook for 1.300 students every day. At the moment, we are for example working a lot to both reduce the waste and to increase the share of KRAV- labeled ingredients we use for cooking. (KRAV is a Swedish association that develops organic standards, and promotes the KRAV-label for products living up to the standards.) During last year’s theme, Consumption, the school managed to increase the share of ecologically and locally produced products they purchased from 6 to 18 percent and the school will strive to further increase the percentage. 22 the keep sweden tidy foundation – school and preschool/inspiration “We have, among other things, changed our purchase system, making it easier to order ecological products,” says Olle. So hopefully we will reach beyond the goal of the City of Malmö, namely that ecological products should constitute 22 percent of the purchases. It is not always easy to get students this age committed. Lots of other things attract their attention. However, the theme Consumption has been easy to communicate. Last year, for example, the students arranged a big swapping day on which huge amounts of clothes exchanged owners. Also, students from the Textile Program have been very interested in the effects of using palm oil. Their teachers had attended a lecture held by Swedish nature photographer Mattias Klum, and passing on the information about the issue to the students, the students’ interest was aroused. the environmental council then tried to arrange for Mattias Klum to lecture at the school, but did not succeed. Instead, that led to the school establishing a contact with Malmö Museum – a contact that in its turn has led to a future cooperation Theme/ Consumption The schools work with for example: production and transport, reuse, advertising, ECO-labels Through their work, the schools and preschools help obtaining: the Swedish Environmental Quality Objectives: Reduced Climate Impact, A Non-Toxic Environment, A Varied Agricultural Landscape, Zero Eutrophication, A Good Built Environment. EU environmental policy: Climate change, Nature and biodiversity, Environment and health, Natural resources and waste. between the school and Malmö Museum around different environmental themes. “We have been thinking about maybe having Water resources as our next theme,” says Olle. If so, we have discussed with the museum that they can bring the students to a number of showings and then the students, together with the museum pedagogues, can create an exhibition on the theme.
The students prepare meals for 1.300 guests every day. “Among other things, we have changed our purchase system, making it easier to order ecological products.” olle bredin, contact person for the eco-schools programme, the restaurant programme, frans suell upper secondary school. However, it is not decided whether Water resources will be the next theme. In the true spirit of Eco-Schools, the whole school elects the theme together, which means that one or two representatives from each class, along with the Environmental Council, will elect the theme on a big meeting. “We will have to book the lecture hall when it’s time for the election,” says Olle. After eleven years with the Eco-Schools programme, the school has good working routines, but to Olle, the Keep Sweden Tidy Foundation’s website within the Com-U project still is a great help to get inspiration and ideas regarding the work. “It gets a lot easier to go to the website and check what others have done – it’s a great help,” says Olle. the educations within the Com-U project that the Keep Sweden Tidy Foundation has provided, has also helped the school to proceed with their work. The school has received a lot of attention for its sustainability work, for example; the school has been awarded with the Valfrid Paulsson Environmental Prize, the Edberg Environmental Prize, and the environmental prize of the Department of education. The school has also welcomed guests from far way away, for example from China, that have come to study their sustainability work. “We are of course thrilled to get attention for what we are doing,” says Olle. “We are proud of our work and our school, and we are convinced that our genuine work with sustainability at the school also attracts students to our programmes.” a school and preschool/inspiration – the keep sweden tidy foundation 23
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