Symposium "Do it! How to create eco-sustainable education places?" (4-5.11) brought together people who want to green the places of their educational work and implement the values they teach.
From the Besucherzentrum für Natur- und Umwelterziehung "Drei Eichen" we have learned how to be a mother of inventions - especially in the middle of the forest educational centre. The Aeris Futuro Foundation introduced us to the green standards of events introduced in Poland and the IBZ-Internationales Begegegnungszentrum St. Marienthal told us about the certification process of the meeting house. During the workshop, Ania Dańkowska presented the efforts for greater ecological sustainability in the Krzyżowa Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe.
Participants discussed common problems of libraries, youth hostels of ecological farms and peripheral educational centres. That is, among other things, about striving for more and more ecological sustainability in their activities! Effective communication, conveying ecological values in education, sustainable food and agriculture, caring for the natural environment and involving the local community, green roofs and rainwater harvesting, motivating the whole team to participate in the process of transformation, permaculture gardens - these issues were discussed during a lively exchange of experiences and speeches of invited guests.
The symposium was the culmination of the project: "Towards sustainable development in education and practice", which enabled the whole staff of the Foundation to take a deeper look at the topic of ecological sustainability.
Financing: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung from Warsaw.
Partners: Kreisau-Initiative e.V., Mut zum Wandeln project (Financing: Freya von Moltke-Stiftung für das Neue Kreisau, Deutsch-Polnisches Jugendwerk - Polish-German Youth Cooperation, Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt).
Photo: Halo Kosmos Fotografia Iza Kozłowska
