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Communicating environmental actions to children and youth<br />
– three years of communication<br />
Between 2009 and 2011, the Keep Sweden Tidy Foundation has carried out the project<br />
Communicating Environmental Actions to Children and Youth, aiming to give children and<br />
youth the tools and the competence to act upon the challenges facing humanity, regarding<br />
environment and sustainability.<br />
TEXT LINA LUNDSTRÖM PHOTO BJÖRN TESCH/BIGFISH<br />
the objective has been to reach 260.000<br />
children and youths through the project.<br />
With the results at hand, we realize that<br />
we have done even better, having reached<br />
340.000 children and youths. The Keep<br />
Sweden Tidy Foundation has chosen to<br />
educate teachers, who, in their turn, bring<br />
the knowledge and the inspiration from<br />
the courses held by the foundation to<br />
the children and the pupils. During the<br />
project the Foundation has been using<br />
the Eco-Schools programme as a tool to<br />
implement the EU environmental policy<br />
in the schools and preschools. Within the<br />
project, we have cooperated with Nature<br />
Schools throughout the country. The<br />
project is partly financed by the EU fund<br />
Life+. During the course of the project,<br />
the Keep Sweden Tidy Foundation has<br />
met with many different actors: teachers,<br />
headmasters, preschool managers, development<br />
managers, environmental coordinators,<br />
Agenda 21-coordinators, managing<br />
directors from the private school and<br />
preschool sector, as well as other actors<br />
from the education sector, both national<br />
and international.<br />
The Keep Sweden Foundation has been<br />
able to carry out the project within the<br />
budget of 2.5 million Euros. The largest<br />
cost has been external assistance from<br />
the Nature Schools and other consultants.<br />
The project has been financed by<br />
the Life+ fund with 50 percent.<br />
Courses and seminars<br />
EU environmental policy course – Step 1<br />
By providing further education courses to<br />
more than 2.000 schools and preschools,<br />
the Keep Sweden Tidy Foundation has<br />
reached thousands of teachers and representatives<br />
from these sectors.<br />
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The purpose of the courses has been to<br />
give representatives from schools and preschools<br />
the inspiration and support they<br />
need to be able to introduce and run the<br />
environmental and sustainability work at<br />
their schools or preschools. These courses<br />
have also been attended by headmasters<br />
and preschool managers, as well as municipal<br />
coordinators.<br />
In the long run, the courses are to give<br />
children and youth qualifications to take<br />
on the challenges described in the EU environmental<br />
policy. This should be carried<br />
out by using the steering documents of<br />
school and preschool and by using the<br />
Eco-Schools certification administrated<br />
in Sweden by The Keep Sweden Tidy<br />
Foundation.<br />
EU environmental policy course – Step 2<br />
At the next step, the Keep Sweden Tidy<br />
Foundation met with all the personnel of<br />
a certain school or preschool for an inspirational<br />
meeting. Through these inspirational<br />
meetings, the regional coordinators<br />
and the Keep Sweden Tidy Foundation<br />
have met more than 14.000 teachers from<br />
more than 1.000 schools and preschools.<br />
The objective of the meetings has been<br />
to give schools and preschools the tools<br />
to work with environmental and sustainability<br />
issues. The coursed have been designed<br />
for all the personnel at schools and<br />
preschools.<br />
Regional coordination<br />
Conferences<br />
During the three years of the project, the<br />
Keep Sweden Tidy Foundation has, as<br />
mentioned earlier, cooperated with Nature<br />
Schools around the country (see page<br />
27). Thanks to the Nature Schools, which<br />
have worked as regional coordinators, the<br />
project has been able to support schools<br />
and preschools throughout the country.<br />
This has made it possible for us to achieve<br />
our goals, and also to become an agent<br />
active all over the country. The cooperation<br />
with the Nature Schools has been an<br />
essential factor for a successful project.<br />
The Keep Sweden Tidy Foundation has<br />
arranged five conferences for the regional<br />
coordinators during the project.<br />
Regional Coordinator Network Meetings<br />
In all, the regional coordinators (the Nature<br />
Schools) have arranged 100 network<br />
meetings during the course of the project.<br />
The objective of the network meetings has<br />
been to get schools and preschools in one<br />
region to interact and to exchange ideas.<br />
The meetings have been appreciated and<br />
fully booked throughout the country. The<br />
Nature Schools that we have cooperated<br />
with have had a good network already<br />
before the start of the project. This has facilitated<br />
the organization of the network<br />
meetings.<br />
During the network meetings, the participating<br />
schools and preschools have<br />
presented their activities, and how they<br />
have gone about their work in the Eco-<br />
Schools programme. They have also<br />
shared good examples and ideas.<br />
Information Material<br />
Films<br />
To reach out through as many channels as<br />
possible, we have created three films. The<br />
films have been put out on YouTube (www.<br />
youtube.com/hallsverigerent), and have<br />
been shown at courses and conferences.<br />
Read more about the films on page 27.