In 2023, the Badajoz Provincial Council, through the Ecological Transition Area, developed an educational programme within the framework of the LIFE-myBUILDINGisGREEN project, so that, together with the educational community, the students of the Gabriela Mistral school could be made aware of the fight against climate change. Various workshops were held on topics such as sustainability, pollinators, biodiversity, recycling, citizen science, etc., with the aim of attracting and involving each student in the area that most interested them in order to arouse their curiosity and make them part of the process and the project itself as protagonists.
The first day of this training programme took place on 15 June 2023, taking data on biodiversity and environmental variables of the plant façades implemented in the Gabriela Mistral school, pilot building of the LIFE-myBUILDINGisGREEN project.
First day of the BEGREEN programme © Badajoz Provincial Council
The training programme, which has been developed in a total of 12 days and/or educational workshops with students from different courses, concluded on 17 April 2024, during the initial phase of the After-LIFE period of this project. On this last day, an experiment was carried out to clean seeds and raise awareness of the importance of forests, seed dispersal to create vegetation cover and fauna as a living means of dispersing these seeds.
Seed cleaning experiment in the framework of the BEGREEN programme © Badajoz Provincial Council
To learn more about the BEGREEN educational programme, you can consult the complete dossier on the programme (available at this link) which includes the phases of its implementation, a work diary with the content of the workshops held and different proposals for improvement for the Nature-Based Solutions implemented at the Gabriela Mistral school.
The success of the training programme has been such that it is expected to be repeated in future academic years.
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