On January 26, World Environmental Education Day, the EUKI project “Parem Taula pel Clima” organized the conference “Agroecology school: realities, challenges and perspectives”. You can catch up on the talk here.
On January 26, World Environmental Education Day, the EUKI project “Parem Taula pel Clima” organized the conference “Agroecology school: realities, challenges and perspectives”. You can catch up on the talk here.
The first part of the evening was attended by Germán Llerena, environmental educator of the environment area of Sant Cugat City Council. His speech, entitled “Beyond the vegetable garden”, focused on the importance of incorporating agroecology into the educational plan of a school and on the need to bring farmers closer to schools.
In this sense, Llerena presented two of her own books (written with the collaboration of more authors), which have examples of educational centers or entities that currently practice agroecology in Catalonia. The publications are entitled “School agroecology“ (Pol·len edicions, 2017), which can be downloaded free of charge; and “Land of learning. Twelve beautiful stories for school agroecology in Catalonia”, which will be available later this year.
Some of the projects mentioned by Germán Llerena were Paidós and Fundesplai, focused on the Organic food supply from the farmers of Collserola to school canteens; We eat saints, promoted by Sants Institute and which has managed to create a Ecological consumption cooperative within the same center; or that of theSchool April 21 de l’Aldea (Tarragona), which has devised a Ecological school garden which studies the differences with conventional agriculture done in the village.
The agricultural engineer specialized in organic farming and coordinator of training activities at the Vida Sana Association, Montse Escutia, was in charge of closing the conference. Escutia presented several Educational resources to work in schools The eleven axes that make up sustainable food, which are: organic production, the ecological and extensive livestock, the sustainable fishing, the local consumption, the seasonal foods, the short chains, the Fair trade, food security, waste reduction, food waste and healthy and sustainable diet.
Some of the materials presented to work on the aforementioned areas were those of project Stop Wasting Food, promoted by Fundesplai and focused on food loss and waste; the School canteen season calendar, from theNGO Food Justicethe video-story La guerra vegetal y el tomate perdido, from the Encinar School, focused on working on a healthy diet; or the Correlation, an educational proposal of the schools of the Alt Empordà to collect waste derived from food.
The conference was also attended by Luciana Lerho, consultant of the EUKI project “Parem Taula pel Clima”. Lerho highlighted the aims of EUKI, an initiative promoted by Germany’s Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) since 2017. Its main objective is to improve intra-European cooperation on climate protection and green transformation.
With funding of more than 70 million euros, the programme has already carried out 179 projects throughout the European Union, with the participation of more than 300 organisations. Other objectives of the EUKI programme are to strengthen the role of civil society in climate action at regional, national and European levels, and also to create networks for the exchange of good practices.
The EUKI consultancy presented two successful projects that were in line with the theme of the conference: “Clikis” and “Clikis Network”, developed in Germany, Poland, Croatia and Estonia. Both programs, now completed, focused on achieving more environmentally friendly catering systems, taking into account both healthy and seasonal foods and energy savings in school kitchens.
Activity belonging to the EUKI project “Parem Taula pel Clima”.
This project is supported by the European Climate Initiative (EUKI) of the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action of the Government of Germany.