Hosted by OSOS , contributed by anna.mancuso on 6 April 2018
Short description:
BE smART: accommodation and formalization of best practices already in place and new proposals for the reduction of waste as a fundamental step in the development of eco-logical and sustainable citizenship skills.
Description:
For several years, our Institute offers courses in classes (from childhood to secondary school 1st grade) in order to promote awareness and good practices in the area of sustainability, with activities and projects that can be divided into 3 main areas :
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reduction of waste
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sustainable mobility
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promoting healthy lifestyles
Our membership with the Institute for the European project OSOS has enabled us to make a balance of the situation and give birth to new ideas. The lines of development of our project will be two:
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Systematization and formalization for a greater dissemination of good practices already in use to work on an exportable model. In particular, we will give structure and design documentation of practices related to the theme of waste reduction:
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The right amount - project in which a memorandum of understanding is set between ASL, parents, teachers, catering company and Amm. Comunale with the aim that children choose the right amount of food they eat and what’s left is given to a soup kitchen in our town.
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Dry zero - project for classes for the use of an empty jar of markers (or equivalent) as the maximum size to collect dry trash. The goals are increasing awareness, differentiation and recycling.
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Launch of new practices and new ideas:
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Dismantling and creative recycling - dismantling electronic devices no longer in use and re-use of certain materials in artistic and creative activities in workshops and educational electronic tinkering.
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Smart home / smart city - thinking around the concept of smart products, prototype models of devices and smart interaction through contacts with companies and laboratories of educational electronics.
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Renewable energy - what are they? How do they work? Laboratories in some institute classes using renewable energy sets of Lego Education and educational robotics and contacts with companies and businesses that promote the use of renewable energies.
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Our bins of dried: prototyping and 3D printing of containers to be used as promotion and dissemination of the Dry Zero projects in events regarding sustainable issues.
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Anna Mancuso anna.mancuso67@gmail.com
Feel
A preliminary investigation phase was carried out on sustainable life models, in our days and in our territory, to identify the feasibility, list the problems, and elaborate proposals identifying solutions. In particular, but for several years, our institute has started meetings and courses in the classes, from infancy to 1st grade secondary school, to investigate awareness and good practices in the area of sustainability. Three identified macro areas: waste reduction; sustainable mobility; promoting healthy lifestyles.
Imagine
Our institute, with paths that involved classes of infancy, primary and 1st grade secondary school, imagined to promote awareness and good practices in the area of sustainability with activities and projects divided into 3 macro areas: waste reduction; sustainable mobility; promoting healthy lifestyles. The partners that could be functional to the development of the aforementioned educational paths were therefore identified. It was therefore decided to involve the local public transport company, the local healthcare company, the catering company that provides meals at the school canteen, the Municipal Administration, some local companies that deal with electronics and renewable energy, parents and teachers. The adherence of our institute to the European OSOS project and the adoption of the “Strategies of waste prevention and resource management” accelerator allowed us to more effectively take stock of the situation to imagine and give life to new ideas and plan times and places .
Create
After the preliminary phase and the creation of possible didactic paths, for the planning and realization of more sustainable life models, the development lines of our project were the following. 1. Identification, systematization and formalization, for the purpose of greater diffusion, of the good practices already in use, both in our offices and for the purpose of exportability of the model. In particular, the structure and design documentation of the practices related to the topic of waste reduction were given: The right amount - a project that saw a memorandum of understanding between ASL, parents, teachers, catering company and Municipal Administration with the aim that children choose the right amount of food they feel they are eating and that the amount left over from the canteen school is brought to the table of the poor St. Francis, to those who need it. Secco zero - a project that included in the classes the use of an empty can of markers (or equivalent) as the maximum basket size to collect the dry. The invitation is awareness, differentiation and recycling. 2. Launch of new practices and new ideas: Creative disassembly and recycling - dismantling laboratories of electronic objects no longer in use and reuse of some materials in artistic and creative activities in tinkering and educational electronics laboratories. Smart home / smart city - think about the concept of smart products, prototype device models and smart interaction through contacts with companies in the sector and educational electronics laboratories. Renewable energy - what are they? How do they work? Workshops in some classes of the institute using Lego Education's renewable energy sets and educational robotics and contacts with companies and companies that promote the use of renewable energy. Our dry bin: prototyping and 3D printing of containers to be used as promotion and dissemination of the Secco zero project. To realize and plan the actions described in the two development lines of our project, good practices already in use and new ideas, the following realities on the territory have been involved: the ASL, the ERA, the Municipal Administration, the Greencorks , the TIXA, Ilevia, the AMM, the school catering company, the canteen of the poor of San Francesco, parents and teachers.