CLIKIS – Climate friendly Kitchen in Schools
The CLIKIS project disseminates approaches and measures for climate-friendly school meals in Poland.
Photo: Peter SchilkenFranco-German Energy Transition Week for Cross-Border Climate Protection
1st Franco-German Energy Transition Week took place in January 2019. Participating municipalities drew attention to climate protection through joint projects and strengthened German-French friendship at the same time.
Central Eastern European Climate and Energy Policy Scholarship for Journalists
The German-Central Eastern European Bursary gives journalists from Germany and nine Central Eastern European countries the opportunity to spend two months working at a media outlet in another country and reporting about climate and energy issues. With this project the IJP want to establish a unique and sustainable network of journalists who are “experts” in bilateral as well as climate and energy issues.
Saving energy in Greek schools
With the Mayor of Athens in attendance, the first public event of the EUKI project for climate-friendly schools in Greece took place at the end of October this year. The project under the auspices of the Greek Ministry of Education aims to increase energy efficiency by at least five per cent in 80 pilot schools. School buildings are among the public buildings with the highest level of energy consumption in Greece.
pixabay.comTowards the introduction of Climate Action in the Educational Curriculum of Bulgarian Schools
The project goal is the institutionalisation of a permanent interdisciplinary teachers’ training programme on climate action and energy efficiency and the improved energy efficiency of school buildings and related reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, based on the changed behaviour of teachers and students during the lifetime of the project and beyond.
The aim of the EUKI project CLIKIS is to support climate protection by demonstrating that school kitchens can make rational use of energy and other resources while preparing tasty, climate-friendly meals, as well as teaching chefs and kitchen workers how to do so. The project flyer sums up the key facts.
The aim of the EUKI project CLIKIS is to support climate protection by demonstrating that school kitchens can make rational use of energy and other resources while preparing tasty, climate-friendly meals, as well as teaching chefs and kitchen workers how to do so. The project flyer sums up the key facts. Download PDF (4.68 MB)
Flyer: Climate friendly kitchen in schools
YESclima – Young experts for climate-friendly schools in Mediterranean countries
The objective of the YESclima project is to train young energy experts to carry out energy audits in primary schools and to provide advice to the municipalities involved in the project. With their practice and additional training, the project goal is to increase their chances of working while at the same time contributing to reducing emissions from heating and cooling in public buildings. Among those affected by the high levels of youth unemployment in Greece and southern Spain are young people who are already qualified in energy efficiency and renewable energy. At the same time, there are many urgent tasks to be performed in this sector. In this project, young experts will be trained in comprehensive energy audits, including economic aspects and, in particular, how to design, calculate and evaluate passive conditioning techniques in schools. The project has the following practical goals: 1. to improve the indoor climate and thermal comfort for teachers and pupils. 2. to provide energy savings in the heating and cooling of buildings, and thus also economic savings for the local authorities that manage the schools, thereby reducing CO2 emissions from the schools. 3. to increase awareness among the communities involved, especially in the schools themselves, of the urgent need to save energy and to generate it in a more environmentally friendly way. 4. to step up efforts to train unemployed young people and provide secure jobs working on the transformation towards a climate-friendly energy system. First project meeting in Cadiz in October 2018. Photo: Project Natural heating and cooling methods use less energy and are frequently more economical. However, many educational buildings in Spain and Greece use expensive and energy-consuming air conditioning instead of more climate-friendly solutions. The condition of most of the educational centres should be improved. Many of them have poor insulation and are consequently too cold in the winter and too warm in summer. More climate-friendly solutions such as ‘green air conditioning’ are rarely used. Buildings and heating are generally two sources of high energy waste.
Project
Background
Project information
Updated: December 2018
Countries: Germany, Greece, Spain
Project duration: 09/18 - 12/20
Funding: 319,579 €
Target groups: Cities, towns and municipalities, Civil Society, Educational institutions, Regional governments, Research Institutes
Implementing organisation:
Universidad de Cádiz (UCA)
Project Partners:
Anemos Ananeosis / Wind of Renewal, Energía y Sostenibilidad Provincia de Cádiz – Energy Agency of Cadiz (APEC), Fundación Medio Ambiente, Sekretariat für Zukunftsstudien Berlin an der Freien Universität Berlin - Secretariat for future studies Berlin at the Free University Berlin (SFZ)
Project Website:
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Contact Person
Mr Francisco José Sánchez de la Flor
Organisation: Universität Cádiz
Address:
Avenida de la Universidad de Cádiz
11519, Puerto Real, Cádiz
Spain
Email: francisco.flor∂uca.es
Tel: +34 956 483340
EUKI
The European Climate Initiative (EUKI):
Potsdamer Platz 10,
10117 Berlin – Deutschland
Tel.: +49 (0)30 338424 570
info∂euki.de
The European Climate Initiative (EUKI):
This project is part of the European Climate Initiative (EUKI) of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU). It is the overarching goal of the EUKI to foster climate cooperation within the European Union (EU) in order to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.
For more information on the EUKI: www.euki.de
Fighting climate change with fruit and vegetables
Representatives from local authorities joined 90 children to celebrate the launch of the new EUKI project Frutti per la Biosfera, which promotes environmental education, climate protection and food in Sicily.
Frutti per la Biosfera – Fruits for the Biosphere
The project addresses the important role of food in climate change. It promotes vegetarian, seasonal, regional and organic foods through environmental education in schools, and also supports farmers in selling their products locally.