Greenovation Challenge: forming competences for innovation in sustainable development for youth (2014 – 2016)
Implementation period: 2014 – 2016
Total budget: 174.178 EUR
RoMontana Association together with Junior Achievement Romania and Ungt Entreprenørskap Sogn og Fjordane were partners in “Greenovation Challenge: forming competences for innovation in sustainable development for youth”, a project coordinated by Junior Achievement Romania and implemented during 2014-2016. This bilateral Romania-Norway ecological education project, funded by EEA Grants 2009-2014, through the NGO Fund in Romania, involved over 50 teachers and 950 high school students from mountain areas.
The Greenovation Challenge project aims to develop young people’s skills for innovation in sustainable development and provides a unique learning experience by:
Development and testing during courses of a module of practical educational activities, learning by doing, on environmental issues (Eco-nomia module), conducted by teachers who benefited of free training and educational materials;
Students’ participation in activities of civic culture and real community involvement by communicating with local authorities and competing with innovative solutions to the problems of sustainable development in mountain areas (the competition had several stages: local, national, international);
Involving students in bilateral educational events where Romanian students will collaborate with those from Norway to generate solutions for the indentified concrete problems.… Citește articolul