Work programme

The project work took place in eight (8) European regions following a common theme and approach but working within the realities of their local contexts.

The project partnership established a local steering group with representatives of the education and business authorities to inform the local project work. These included secondary school teachers, educational authorities and business representatives in addition to representatives identified at a local level with links to the project work (e.g. other environmental educational groups, agencies).

Through steering groups, participant schools were enlisted to formally support and contribute to the development of a work programme.  This work programme trained a School Energy Management Team (SEMT) of pupils in the basic skills of surveying the energy situation of their school building and instigating a programme of improvements on the basis of their observations. The school training of the SEMT was a basis for the acquisition of skills that could then be transferred to the workplaces that pupils had the opportunity to visit a place of work and apply their knowledge to a real life context. This process aimed to increase the general awareness of energy use and efficiency measures for pupils, teachers and workplace staff with the additional benefit of introducing pupils to the possibilities for future careers in the field of sustainable energy.

The pupil programme was supported by quality resources developed on the basis of a review of existing good practices and also a study of the current educational context of sustainable energy education in each partner country before the project implementation.

A Review of Current Educational Policy and Practice