Eco school (award)

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Öko-Schule is a program or an award for schools that implement ecological concerns in everyday school life and promote environmental education .

Basics

In 1992 the groundbreaking United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (On Environment and Development) took place. In June 1995 the conference of the country coordinators of the international OECD / CERI network Environment and School Initiatives (ENSI) agreed at a meeting in Vienna to set ECO schools as one of the five common themes.

Worldwide eco-schools run by FEE

The Foundation for Environmental Education  (FEE), a non-governmental organization in Copenhagen, started this program in 1994.

The conditions include a conscious examination of aspects of environmental protection and sustainability , and is in the spirit of the Earth Charter and Local Agenda 21 . The topics of the program include water, waste, energy and the school environment, as well as nature and biodiversity, transport and sustainable mobility, health, noise and climate change. The aim is to integrate environmentally conscious education into the classroom and to develop a school's own ecological code.

The price is the Green Flag , in some countries in gold, silver and bronze.

The project is carried out in cooperation with, among others, UNEP and the European Union , where it is funded by the European Social Fund in structurally weaker countries . It was implemented (as of March 2010) in 47 countries - including almost all countries in Europe - and comprised 32,000 schools worldwide

National implementation:

ÖKOLOG in Austria

Austria does not participate in the FEE program, but has launched an independent project called  Greening Schools - Education for Sustainability (ÖKOLOG) from 1995 , which distinguishes eco-schools and is run by the Ministry of Education . The Environment and School Initiatives program was set up by the Austrian Center for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) of the OECD on the initiative of the Minister of Education as early as 1986 , to which ÖKOLOG supplements and extends it. For this purpose, the platform was set up as a project of the FORUM environmental education .

The ÖKOLOG fields of activity are, analogous to the FEE topics: avoiding emissions, culture of teaching and learning, health promotion, sustainable consumption and lifestyles, saving resources, space in and around the school, school development and school program or cooperation with the school environment. There are points of contact with the Healthy School , IMST Fund , Jugend Innovativ and Sparkling Science programs .

The project was started in 1996 with 22 pilot schools, and the platform ran from 2000. Today in Austria are 583 schools (as of 10/2019) in ÖKOLOG program active and call Ökoschule .

literature

  • Finn Mogensen, Michela Mayer, Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Culture - Dept. V / 11c, Environmental Education Affairs (Ed.): ECO-schools: trends and divergences . A Comparative Study on ECO-school development processes in 13 countries. Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85031-062-0 (English, = ECO-schools: trends and divergences ( Memento from June 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF] Section 2 - National reports on eco-schools initiatives. Australia, Austria , Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Korea, Norway, Spain – Catalonia, Sweden).

Austria:

  • Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture, Günther Franz Pfaffenwimmer, International ENSI Secretariat, Peter Posch, IFF Klagenfurt (Ed.): Priority program "Greening schools - education for sustainability ÖKOLOG". Analysis and Outlook (=  USI series . No. 36 ). Self-published, Vienna July 2005 ( ensi.bmukk.gv.at [PDF]).
  • F. Rauch, M. Dulle: On the way to a sustainable school culture - 15 years of the ÖKOLOG program, 10 years of the ÖKOLOG network . Brochure. Ed .: BMUKK. Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-85031-161-8 ( publications from the ÖKOLOG program ( Memento from June 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive )).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Günther Franz Pfaffenwimmer: The achievements of the Austrian OECD / CERI teacher team “Environment and School Initiatives” in the priority program “Greening Schools - Education for Sustainability ÖKOLOG” . In: USI series . No. 36. S. 7 , col. 2 ( lit. , article p. 7/8).
  2. ^ Foundation for Environmental Education.
  3. ^ Themes ( Memento of May 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), eco-schools.org
  4. ↑ a b Appreciation: 21 schools in the Czech Republic honored with the title “eco school”. In: radio.cz, June 27, 2007.
  5. ^ The Eco-Schools Award is the Green Flag. ( Memento of May 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), eco-schools.org
  6. ↑ eco-schools.org ; For a current overview, see Contacts ( Memento from May 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Interactive Map, eco-schools.org
  7. ↑ Environmental education: greening schools - education for sustainability , bmukk.gv.at »Education and Schools» Classes and Schools »Teaching Principles
  8. ↑ Ref. USI series . No. 36. S. 68 .
  9. ^ Forum Umweltbildung - Austria's portal for environmental education and education for sustainable development , Umweltbildung.at
  10. ↑ Programs , oekolog.at
  11. ↑ For the current status, see ÖKOLOG schools , oekolog.at