EcoSchools Iceland Skólar á grænni grein

Eco-Schools is one of the five educational programs run by the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE). It is an international award program that guides schools on their journey towards a sustainable school environment. The program provides a simple framework to help make sustainability an integral part of school life. Eco-Schools can help enhance curricula and get whole schools united behind important environmental issues. The program strives to bring about changes in the behaviour of young people and those connected to them so that good habits learned in schools are followed through into homes and communities. Energy-related programmes are part of it. To get the green flag, schools have to implement a seven-step program that raises awareness of environmental issues among schoolteachers, students, and staff members. The ES initiative has a number of themes that schools can decide to work with (Energy, Water, Biodiversity, School grounds, Healthy living, Transport, Litter, Waste and Global citizenship), and students/pupils play a central role in choosing the themes they work with.