Green School - Rome and province

WHERE 

Metropolitan Area of Rome
 

CONTEXT

The Green School method was born in 2009 in a small school in Laveno Mombello (VA), as a grassroots initiative organised by the Agenda 21 Laghi community pact together with the NGO CAST and the University of Insubria. Over 15 years, the tools made available to schools have been progressively refined, in particular through the contribution of several research institutions, including the University of Parma – CIREA and Istituto Oikos Onlus. In 2021, the Green School Italia Programme was launched, replicating the method across four additional territories: Rome, Livorno, Cagliari and Aosta Valley. Today, the Green School network counts 735 school sites, 239,991 students and 21,962 teachers across 13 Italian provinces, and since 2009 has saved 132 tonnes of CO₂ — equivalent to 30 Olympic swimming pools. This project responds directly to the need to ensure continuity of the programme in the Rome metropolitan area.

OBJECTIVES

General objective
To contribute to the development and strengthening of a concept of "citizenship" understood as belonging to the global community, pragmatically supporting individual and collective change towards the creation of a more sustainable and just world.

Specific objective

• To improve, among students, teachers and citizens, understanding of the challenges posed by climate change and the sustainability of development processes, fostering the adoption of good practices and sustainable lifestyles in the communities of the territories involved.
• To promote awareness, development, use and dissemination of low-carbon technologies and innovative solutions for climate change adaptation, through public awareness-raising and education, the creation of knowledge-sharing networks between public and private sectors, and the promotion of public-private partnerships.

ACTIVITIES

• School enrolment and teacher training programme
• Support for the introduction of sustainable good practices in schools, monitoring of the impacts of behavioural changes, and assignment of the Green School recognition
• Communication activities and Sustainability Festival

RESULTS

• Targeted environmental sustainability and sustainable development education programmes developed
• Knowledge, awareness and good practices on environmental sustainability transferred to students and teachers
• A community created of at least 5,000 students, 500 teachers and school staff members, and 50 organisations active in environmental sustainability and sustainable development in the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital

BENEFICIARIES

Direct:  176 teachers
Indirect: pproximately 6,000 people

PARTNERS

Dzogchen Merigar Cultural Association

A PROJECT BY

Province of Varese

PROJECT FUNDED BY

Metropolitan City of Rome Capital