The aim of the Project is to create an ecological classroom from the school campus, in which teaching will take place. The Project also aims to encourage and change the behavior of pupils and the public towards climate change so that their behavior is more environmentally friendly. The target groups of the Project are pupils and pedagogical staff of the school, parents of pupils, public - residents of the City of Šahy and surrounding municipalities, including disabled and physically handicapped citizens.
The following activities will be implemented within the Project:
- Creation / updating of educational materials to ensure the education of pupils in the area of mitigation and adaptation to climate change,
- Implementation of hard technical measures – Campus as a classroom for climate change. This activity will consist of Increasing the proportion of greenery (planting of useful plants), water retention measures (building of bioretention systems), building blue infrastructure elements, increasing the infiltration capacity of the territory (replacement of a concrete surface with a permeable surface) and with a vegetation surface.
- Educational activities and awareness raising activities Student Science Conference and Earth Day.
All activities will be interconnected and will be pilot tested in the lessons of the Project.
There are 2 Slovak Project Partners involved in the Project: Grammar School, 17. November Str., Topoľčany and Grammar School of J. Szondyho with teaching conducted in Hungarian from the City of Šahy.