The Green Pack, Awareness on Sustainable Development for Schools in Macedonia



Contract partner: REC - Regional Environmental Center - Macedonia Country: Mazedonien Funding amount: € 321.000,00 Project start: 01.03.2006 End: 30.09.2008

Short Description:

Overall goal


The Green Pack is a multi-medium environmental education curriculum kit primarily intended for European primary school teachers and their students, although it can also be used at other levels of education. It focuses on particular aspects of environmental protection and sustainable development and includes a variety of educational materials such as a teacher¿s handbook with lesson plans and fact sheets for students, a video-cassette with animated clips and educational films, an interactive CD-ROM with extensive information on various environmental topics and a dilemma game. The Green Pack emphasises the formation of new values in students and the setting of a new model of behaviour at school, at home and in society rather than simply the accumulation of knowledge in particular environmental areas (activities, discussions, role-plays, decision making).

The pack will be available at no cost to schools for approx. 25,000 pupils annually and provide training for more than 330 teachers.

Its goal is to improve the environmental education base in Macedonia by:

* Developing a modern model of environmental education for the national education system;

* Raising the environmental awareness of pupils and teachers, and via them that of society as a whole; and

* Investing in human resources and capacity-building in terms of education and public awareness on the environment (training).

The programme will involve the following main activities (key objectives):

* Prepare a multi-media educational resource pack for use in schools (Green Pack) in Macedonian and Albanian languages;

* Host launch events for the educational pack;

* Organise training of teachers/educators, and the distribution of the resource pack to schools with assistance from national and local governments;

* Collect indicators of success e.g., number of schools using the Green Pack, teachers/children educated; and

* Learning from the experience of other countries with modernized education systems and approaches.

project number 8103-00/2005
source of funding OEZA
sector Umweltschutz allgemein
tied
modality
marker
  • Policy marker: are used to identify, assess and facilitate the monitoring of activities in support of policy objectives concerning gender equality, aid to environment, participatory development/good governance, trade development and reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health. Activities targeting the objectives of the Rio Conventions include the identification of biodiversity, climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, and desertification.
    • 1= policy is a significant objective of the activity
    • 2= policy is the principal objective of the activity
  • Donor/ source of funding: The ADA is not only implementing projects and programmes of the Austrian Development Cooperation , but also projects funded from other sources and donors such as
    • AKF - Foreign Disaster Fund of the Austrian federal government
    • BMLFUW - Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water
    • EU - Funds of the European Commission
    • Others - various other donors are listed in ADA’s annual business report.
  • Type of Aid – Aid modalities: classifies transfers from the donor to the first recipient of funds such as budget support, core contributions and pooled programmes and funds to CSOs and multilateral organisations, project-type interventions, experts and other technical assistance, scholarships and student costs in donor countries, debt relief, administrative costs and other in-donor expenditures.
  • Purpose/ sector code: classifies the specific area of the recipient’s economic or social structure, funded by a bilateral contribution.
  • Tied/Untied: Untied aid is defined as loans and grants whose proceeds are fully and freely available to finance procurement from all OECD countries and substantially all developing countries. Transactions are considered tied unless the donor has, at the time of the aid offer, clearly specified a range of countries eligible for procurement which meets the tests for “untied” aid.
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