EGS Project

All EGS partners and many italian stakeholders (University, SME's, Authority and others) will attend at EGS workshop in Schio, Friday - October, 9^th - 2009. In the morning all stakeholders and EGS partners will present best practices, projects and other energy questions of great interest (Italian-English simultaneous translation will be provided).  In the afternoon will start the first italian forum workshop, succefully divided by thematic areas. In this brainstorming phase many ideas about pilot actions will be proposed by italian stakeholders and EGS italian partners together. The forum will end with discussion of results. See the detailed program and content of event!

In 16.09.2009 the Romanian partners took part at the dissemination action organized by Environmental Agency from Arad in the context of Mobility Week Actions.

Western University "Vasile Goldis" of Arad presented the description of the project and the best practice regarding electric bicycle received from France. At this event participated schools, local autorities and NGO's and was widely popularized by mass media: newspapers and the local television network.

On September 11, 2009 start the pilot working group on energy of secondary schools of the Provinces of Vicenza and Padova. The group has been organised, within the framework of the EGS project, by Centro Produttività Veneto (CPV) and Sogesca s.r.l. As a first meeting, the participating schools have discussed a set of best practices on energy education proposed by the EGS project partners that will be now integrated with proposals from the group.    The next meeting will take place in Schio, on 7 October, in occasion of a 3-day event that will see the launch of the 1st Local Energy Forum of schools of the Municipality of Schio.

Are European schools aware or conscious of their practices in energy usage i.e. energy efficiency? Is this visible in their activities? How much energy do schools consume? Which habits do they practise daily to reduce their energy consumption, and (how) do they involve the local authorities? Is energy education a part of the curricula? And do teachers think, that they are trained enough to provide lessons on energy-usage?