13th May 2022, at the doors of phase two of the project POTEnT, Parma and Pamplona meet online for an Import workshop. The importer is Parma City Council this time, with its stakeholders, Stefano Rossetti and Giuseppe Boselli that manage the environmental education curriculum in many high and middle schools in Parma.
From Pamplona’s side, Sara Nieto, from the Environmental Education Unit illustrated the best practice 3.9 “Gaming tool to educate school pupils about energy”. This initiative is part of the ‘Go Green Pamplona’ program within the STARDUST project. In this pilot, children are involved in specific training programs on energy and RES to take part in practical learning labs.
To do that, an online game-designed platform was created. There, children can follow online lessons, win challenges, and get rewards. The final goal with these young technicians is to develop some good practices to sharply reduce their school energy consumption.
Many questions came from Parma’s side concerning the design of the learning path. If, on one hand, kids have to study and follow online questions on their own, laboratories follow a collective approach. Indeed, school classes, guided by their teachers, need to create a diagnosis of their school energy consumption to, at the end of the year, generate effective scientific-based good practices to follow.
With much interest, Parma’s stakeholders learned about the online platform and the rewards system that children get for completing their learning path. Furthermore, by starting from an energy diagnosis based on observing and listening to the environment, school kids in Pamplona become progressively more confident and familiar with the topic of energy.
Group, solidarity, and responsibility are successful elements that Parma will import to create school laboratories to engage young people in Parma’s Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan.
Despite a multitude of languages spoken, Spanish, English, and Italian, participants manage to understand, ask questions and speak spontaneously. A bright example of how to overcome the language barrier! Another positive effect of interregional learning!
