Fighting wildfires through Open Schooling initiatives

Participatory Lab: given that the climate change’s effects (droughts and wildfires) were already identified as relevant local challenges, this participatory lab aims at bringing together school community, OSH-PT, families, community, civil society, regional associations, researchers, industry and political entities, and promote a design-thinking based session to identify local cases of climate change’s effects and find solutions to tackle these problems.

Citizen science/social intervention projects: these projects will be developed under the discipline of “Education for Citizenship”, in collaboration with families and local stakeholders,  aiming at finding solutions for droughts and wildfires in Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo;

Social Media Debates + Open Discussion Sessions: creation of a social media platform (Facebook/FB) that manages and mediates debates about climate change/local effects of climate change in Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo to raise awareness and promote discussion through scientific content, testimonials, interviews and the dissemination of all project initiatives. With the results from all FB discussion and debates, a Discussion Session for families and local community will be held, at the end of each school period;

Inter-municipality school’s forum: this forum will enable the dissemination of the research results gathered in citizen science/social intervention activities under the scope of the discipline of “Education for Citizenship”, at the end of each school year. Students will organize and implement an inter-municipality forum with results discussion, training and participatory sessions on climate change effects and potential solutions to overcome these challenges. Through this science communication/education forum, students will be able to communicate their findings to a mixed crowd of the school community, local community, civil society members, enterprises, and local political power, together with experts in the field of climate change, including researchers and politicians. By recurring to the scientific evidence collected, and through discussion with local stakeholders and experts on the field of climate change, the intervenients of this forum will be able to find creative solutions for local challenges on climate change in the region - droughts and wildfires. Additionally, by being open to several municipalities, this forum sets the perfect setting to discuss the planned expansion of this project to other school groups in the district of Guarda;

Action Implementation: to fight droughts and fires on the municipality level, several action proposals will  be presented in the inter-municipality forum mentioned before. These actions will be based on the results from the citizen science/social intervention initiatives developed during the classes of the discipline “Education for Citizenship”. Only one action will be selected to be implemented. In order to implement it, students will acquire funding from different sources, such as the municipality of Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo, crowdfunding schemes, Participatory Budgeting (public national contest on active citizenship) or organize social events on a donation-based entrance in  school/regional activities.

Participatory Lab: given that the climate change’s effects (droughts and wildfires) were already identified as relevant local challenges, this participatory lab aims at bringing together school community, OSH-PT, families, community, civil society, regional associations, researchers, industry and political entities, and promote a design-thinking based session to identify local cases of climate change’s effects and find solutions to tackle these problems.

Citizen science/social intervention projects: these projects will be developed under the discipline of “Education for Citizenship”, in collaboration with families and local stakeholders,  aiming at finding solutions for droughts and wildfires in Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo;

Social Media Debates + Open Discussion Sessions: creation of a social media platform (Facebook/FB) that manages and mediates debates about climate change/local effects of climate change in Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo to raise awareness and promote discussion through scientific content, testimonials, interviews and the dissemination of all project initiatives. With the results from all FB discussion and debates, a Discussion Session for families and local community will be held, at the end of each school period;

Inter-municipality school’s forum: this forum will enable the dissemination of the research results gathered in citizen science/social intervention activities under the scope of the discipline of “Education for Citizenship”, at the end of each school year. Students will organize and implement an inter-municipality forum with results discussion, training and participatory sessions on climate change effects and potential solutions to overcome these challenges. Through this science communication/education forum, students will be able to communicate their findings to a mixed crowd of the school community, local community, civil society members, enterprises, and local political power, together with experts in the field of climate change, including researchers and politicians. By recurring to the scientific evidence collected, and through discussion with local stakeholders and experts on the field of climate change, the intervenients of this forum will be able to find creative solutions for local challenges on climate change in the region - droughts and wildfires. Additionally, by being open to several municipalities, this forum sets the perfect setting to discuss the planned expansion of this project to other school groups in the district of Guarda;

Action Implementation: to fight droughts and fires on the municipality level, several action proposals will  be presented in the inter-municipality forum mentioned before. These actions will be based on the results from the citizen science/social intervention initiatives developed during the classes of the discipline “Education for Citizenship”. Only one action will be selected to be implemented. In order to implement it, students will acquire funding from different sources, such as the municipality of Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo, crowdfunding schemes, Participatory Budgeting (public national contest on active citizenship) or organize social events on a donation-based entrance in  school/regional activities.

Participatory Lab: given that the climate change’s effects (droughts and wildfires) were already identified as relevant local challenges, this participatory lab aims at bringing together school community, OSH-PT, families, community, civil society, regional associations, researchers, industry and political entities, and promote a design-thinking based session to identify local cases of climate change’s effects and find solutions to tackle these problems.

Citizen science/social intervention projects: these projects will be developed under the discipline of “Education for Citizenship”, in collaboration with families and local stakeholders,  aiming at finding solutions for droughts and wildfires in Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo;

Social Media Debates + Open Discussion Sessions: creation of a social media platform (Facebook/FB) that manages and mediates debates about climate change/local effects of climate change in Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo to raise awareness and promote discussion through scientific content, testimonials, interviews and the dissemination of all project initiatives. With the results from all FB discussion and debates, a Discussion Session for families and local community will be held, at the end of each school period;

Inter-municipality school’s forum: this forum will enable the dissemination of the research results gathered in citizen science/social intervention activities under the scope of the discipline of “Education for Citizenship”, at the end of each school year. Students will organize and implement an inter-municipality forum with results discussion, training and participatory sessions on climate change effects and potential solutions to overcome these challenges. Through this science communication/education forum, students will be able to communicate their findings to a mixed crowd of the school community, local community, civil society members, enterprises, and local political power, together with experts in the field of climate change, including researchers and politicians. By recurring to the scientific evidence collected, and through discussion with local stakeholders and experts on the field of climate change, the intervenients of this forum will be able to find creative solutions for local challenges on climate change in the region - droughts and wildfires. Additionally, by being open to several municipalities, this forum sets the perfect setting to discuss the planned expansion of this project to other school groups in the district of Guarda;

Action Implementation: to fight droughts and fires on the municipality level, several action proposals will  be presented in the inter-municipality forum mentioned before. These actions will be based on the results from the citizen science/social intervention initiatives developed during the classes of the discipline “Education for Citizenship”. Only one action will be selected to be implemented. In order to implement it, students will acquire funding from different sources, such as the municipality of Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo, crowdfunding schemes, Participatory Budgeting (public national contest on active citizenship) or organize social events on a donation-based entrance in  school/regional activities.