Eco2Schools is an Erasmus+ funded project through the end of 2025. The project’s overall aim is to demonstrate that educational buildings can become enablers of the New European Bauhaus. This is proposed to be achieved by:

• integration of pedagogical targets regarding sustainability into the curriculum,
• re-considering the relationship of the schools with the local communities as hubs of innovation towards the green transition and sustainable development and,
• ongoing development of a roadmap on how schools can become a physical place of education and knowledge.

This project was undertaken by UCC as it complements the concept of Sustainability Citizenship, one of the 9 themes of the university’s Sustainability and Climate Action Plan. UCC’s activity in the project is centered around the UCC Enterprise Centre on the North Mall Campus, which is currently undergoing a deep retrofit. Here surveys are being carried out to track building users’ overall climate literacy and the pedagogical retention of 4 test activities. The test activities will be carried out throughout 2024 and 2025.

Learn more about the UCC Enterprise: SEAI & HEA Pathfinder Deep Retrofit project. And for further details on how UCC has adopted the NEBLAB concept go to their website.

Key Milestones

• Development of Use Cases of the 5 Pilot Sites
• Development of Green Action Plans of the 5 Pilot Sites
• Development of Implementation Plans
• Ongoing refinement of the Eco2Schools Roadmap (a tool for more schools post-project).
• Refinement of the proposed Social Value Framework that measures the pedagogical impact of the Eco2Schools process.

The other pilot sites within the project are: Microville112 Eco Campus (France), Ciência Viva – Pavilhão do Conhecimento (Portugal), Sigtunaskolan Humanistiska Läroverket (Sweden) and Ellinogermaniki Agogi (Greece).

The rest of the project consortium comprise: Good Planet Belgium, An Taisce, Lern Land Schaft, University of Bayreuth, Alliance Sens et Economie. To read more about this project click Here