New European Bauhaus Prizes 2023

Initiative category

Identify the award category for which this initiative is being submitted
Reconnecting with nature

Email user
roberto.conte@vallauri.edu

Basic information
Initiative title
Schools 4 nature

Full initiative Title
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Please provide a short, catchy description of your initiative to be used in communication towards the public.
The project aims to trigger a radical process of change in the approach to environmental sustainability and is divided into 3 sub-projects:
1a.Ride to school
Encouraging sustainable mobility for the home-to-school journey of high school students and school staff
1b.Pedibus
The Pedibus project for their primary school pupils to get around on foot
2.Hack-a-town
Peer to peer training among students
3.Outdoor education
The project aims to renew teaching by enhancing outdoor education

What was the geographical scope of your intiative?
Local

Where was your intiative implemented?
Member State(s) and Western Balkans
Italy

If relevant, insert names of region(s)/municipality(ies) involved
Municipality of Fossano

Does your initiative address mainly urban or rural issues?
It addresses urban-rural linkages

Does your initiative refer to a physical transformation of the built environment or other types of transformations (hard or soft investments)?
It refers to other types of transformations (soft investment)

Has your initiative benefited from EU programmes and/or funds?
No

Has your initiative won an EU prize with a monetary value awarded?
No

Does your initiative has a minimum level of maturity? The minimum level of maturity is exemplified by stakeholder/ initiative promoter commitment to implement the initiative in practice and a clear methodology /approach.
Yes

On whose behalf are you submitting the application?
As a representative of an organization, in partnership with other organisations
If you are submitting this intiative as part of a group, please provide the contact details of the other individuals or organisations
- Name of the organisation(s): I.I.S. "G.Vallauri" - Fossano
  Type of organisation: Other public institution
  First name of representative: Roberto
  Last name of representative: Conte
  Gender: Male
  Nationality: Italy
  Function: Mobility Manager, Teacher
  Address (country of permanent residence for individuals or address of the organisation)<br/>Street and number: Via San Michele, 68
  Town: Fossano
  Postal code: 12045
  Country: Italy
  Direct Tel: +39 0172 694969
  E-mail: roberto.conte@vallauri.edu
  Website: http://www.vallauri.edu/public/ita/pagina.asp
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In case my initiative is selected as a finalist of the NEB Prizes 2023, I agree to share the name (individual and/or organisation’s), email address, website and social media accounts indicated above with other NEB Prizes finalists. I also agree to publish the name (individual and/or organisation’s), website and social media accounts indicated above next to the public description of my initiative in the channels of the European Commission.
Yes

How did you hear about the New European Bauhaus Prizes?
New European Bauhaus or European Commission websites

Description of the initiative
Please provide a summary of your initiative
The project aims to trigger a radical process of change in the approach to environmental sustainability by the educational institutions of all levels present in the municipality of Fossano by acting on mobility, on the creative training of the new generations by drawing on coaching between peers and to outdoor teaching.
The project is divided into 3 sub-projects in order to be able to act on all areas and levels of education:
1a. Ride to School
The project provides for the promotion of sustainable mobility for the home-school journey of high school students and secondary school staff.
The minors selected and participating in the initiative will be provided with initial training on road safety for the correct use of two wheels and scooters.
Users will receive cheap cash back based on the kilometers traveled by bike or on foot in the form of shopping vouchers to spend in local shops.
1b. Pedibus
Implementation of the pedibus service by accompanying students to school on foot
Training activities for the pupils of the school, in collaboration with the local police (traffic education lessons) and with the civil protection
1.c School streets
Access roads to schools will be closed to allow children to use urban spaces safely and for moments of socializing and playing
2. Hack-a-town
Peer to peer between students aimed at transferring maker skills
Hack-a-town/makerthon in which groups made up of young people supported by mentors (teachers), starting from the analysis of an environmental problem, devise innovative and effective solutions and create prototypes.
3. Outdoor education
Purchase of materials/furniture for setting up the spaces (preschool gardens and educational vegetable gardens).

Please indicate the main themes of your initiative with 5 key words.
environmental sustainability

Please indicate the main themes of your initiative with key words
smart mobility

Please indicate the main themes of your initiative with key words
environmental education

Please indicate the main themes of your initiative with key words
peer to peer education

Please indicate the main themes of your initiative with key words
safety education and student welfare

Please give information about the key objectives of your initiative in terms of sustainability and how these have been/will be met. Please highlight how the initiative can be exemplary in this context.
1a. Ride to school
The aim is to change the bad habits of pupils and their families who prefer highly polluting vehicles for proximity travel.
By encouraging the use of means such as the bicycle and walking, we want to reduce the consumption of urban land linked to the presence of vehicles, reduce the production of substances
1b. Pedibus
The project intends to promote the mobility of primary school pupils on foot on the way home to school with the achievement of the following objectives
• Defend slow mobility
• Promote children's autonomy
• Promote the acquisition of self-esteem
• Dedicate marked cycle-pedestrian paths for reaching the school in safety
• Promote respect for the environment.
• Improve socialization by promoting positive relational dynamics.
2. Hack-a-town
Finding innovative solutions to remove the obstacles that contrast with the adoption of virtuous habits and encourage virtuous actions.
3. Outdoor education
The specific objective is to raise children's awareness of living, appreciating and respecting the environment in order to educate them from an early age on the importance of a sense of belonging and care for the environment: starting from kindergarten and primary school to educate future citizens aware and sensitive to the issue of sustainability and environmental education.
Rethinking the external space as a learning and relationship environment also makes it possible to expand the possibilities of psychophysical well-being of children and to open and enhance the network of relationships within the community.

Please give information about the key objectives of your initiative in terms of aesthetics and quality of experience for people (through design, positive emotions and cultural benefits) and how these have been met. Please highlight how the initiative can be exemplary in this context.
1a. Ride to school
- Analyzing school mobility, an excessive use of polluting vehicles also emerged for journeys of less than 5 km
- From the analyzes of air quality there is a worrying situation
- During the lock-down period linked to the pandemic, many young people presented various psycho-physical pathologies
- The number of road accidents is very high
We want to act to create demand and encourage the use of sustainable means of transport with:
-improvement of air quality and reduction of proximity movements with polluting vehicles
-improvement of psycho-physical well-being
- road safety training
1b. Pedibus
A percentage of pupils go to school by car due to the distance between home and school and the feeling of greater security.
The project therefore proposes some solutions to increase the safety of the journey from school to home and contributes to:
reduce the concentration of traffic around the school, help reduce air pollution e
help students regain the pleasure of walking e
2. Hack-a-town
Poor interaction between school, citizens and municipal administration in the study and search for solutions to environmental issues. Therefore we want to act on creativity and development of bottom-up solutions.
3. Outdoor education
Exploration is the privileged experience of working outdoors and the adult lends itself to the observation of the exploratory game: the teacher should be an accomplice in the children's research.
With this project we would like to increase the experiences and consequently the learning that can be lived outside.

Please give information about the key objectives of your initiative in terms of inclusion (ranging from accessibility and affordability for all to inclusive governing systems, design for all principles or new societal models) and how these have been met. Please highlight how the initiative can be exemplary in this context.
1a. Ride to school
-Increase the student population that will move on the bike to school journey with sustainable means.
-Increase the sustainable mobility of school staff.
-Reduction of greenhouse gas and particulate emissions, with consequent improvement of air quality, especially in the vicinity of school facilities
-Improve the psycho-physical health of students and school staff
-Create a demand for the construction of infrastructures and routes for sustainable mobility. Pushing the municipal administration to foresee a PUMS and PUMC plan
- Encourage proximity trade
-Create a meritocratic process of valorisation of individuals with a smaller ecological footprint
-Improve training and road safety
-Create emulations of the good practice in question
2. Hack-a-town
Change in habits to be verified through a questionnaire on awareness and practices one year later to be compared with the data that emerged previously
Provisions adopted by the administrations and possible adoption of the results of the Hack-a-town
3. Outdoor education
The development of children's skills, in line with the specific objectives of the school curriculum

Please explain the way citizens benefiting from or affected by the initiative and civil society have been/will be involved in the initiative and what has been/will be the impact of this involvement on the initiative
1a. Ride to school
All participants in the initiative are receiving economic cash back in shopping vouchers to spend in local shops based on how many kilometers they are traveling on foot, by bicycle or by scooter.
This will create emulation in uninvolved people and will encourage purchases in local shops.
Furthermore, based on the tracking and evaluation of individual trips managed by the apps, it will be possible to highlight the most used routes and their safety level to the local administration. Thus allowing to be able to act on the infrastructures
1b. Pedibus
School children are accompanied on foot by teachers or volunteers in a safe way, rediscovering the territory and socializing. At the end, the classes with the highest number of members will win shopping vouchers to spend in local shops
2. Hackatown
The older kids will train the younger kids in order to make them aware of the issues of environmental sustainability. In addition, local issues will be addressed that will make their future behavior responsible
3. Outdoor education
School children will be able to have lessons outdoors by taking advantage of the specially furnished outdoor spaces, enhancing contact with nature

Please explain how different stakeholders at various levels (local, regional, national, European) were engaged in the design and implementation of the initiative.
1. Ride to school/pedibus
The merchants' association was involved in funding the shopping vouchers, while our school provided for the recruitment and selection of pupils and school staff. The ACI (automobile club Italy) has created courses for road safety
The local administration will improve the road infrastructure based on the reports resulting from the tracking analyses
2. Hackatown
The various schools have provided for the purchase of material for the peer training of the students.
The local administrations provided the starting point for identifying the environmental problems to be solved
3.Outdoor Education
The schools have provided for the purchase of the material and the local administrations have provided for the preparation of the spaces

Please explain which disciplines and/ or knowledge fields were reflected in the design and implementation of your initiative. Please explain how representatives of these different fields interacted with each other, and what the added value of this process was
For the design, knowledge on the study of traffic flows, safety and urban planning, as well as people management and data analysis interacted. The added value was to create a circular economy involving public and private entities and associations.
The low cost of the initiative was born from the optimization of the resources and skills available. The school has implemented the design, dissemination, promotion and purchase of the most suitable tracking technology available, the merchants' association has provided the funds for the economic cashback and the pedibus prizes through shopping vouchers that will be usable exclusively at local community shops

Please highlight the innovative character of the initiative, when compared to mainstream actions in the field of the initiative
1. Ride to school and Pedibus
No educational institution has ever attempted to create such an initiative. Contrary to those proposed by local administrations or by other schools in Italy, which are based on cashback as a source of impromptu financing or from large-scale retailers, the project aims to create a virtuous circuit which at the end of the two-year experimentation can go up and running and self sustaining. Thanks to the implementation of a collaborative network made up of all schools of all levels in the city of Fossano, local merchants and companies in the area
2. Hack-a-town
Peer teaching (inclusive and collaborative), multidisciplinary, peer assessment, challenge-based learning (learning methods based on a challenge), active-learning (active learning linked to the real world), involvement and coordination with bodies and administration representatives schools and venues
3. Outdoor education
Another innovative element is the philosophy: the desire to offer quality education that focuses on the enhancement of nature as a learning environment
Nature is not a source of distraction, but a privileged place to focus attention, allow adequate and complete body development where to bring out the sensitivity of children, where to realize experiences of discovery and construction of knowledge, where to promote the growth of well-being, relationships positive and inclusive.

Please describe which elements of your initiative could be replicated or transferred to other places, groups of beneficiaries and contexts. This may involve, for example, aspects of the methodology, technology, processes, products, learnings, etc.
All aspects of the initiative can be replicated by any school, institution or private company by creating the circular economy that optimizes costs and creates a win-win process for all the actors involved

Please describe the methodology or approach used in your initiative.
A synergistic approach was created between all the entities involved, so that everyone could provide their knowledge, obtaining the maximum result from the initiative. By involving all the members of the institutions, a critical mass has been created which has activated a virtuous circuit of good practices and benefits for all

Please explain what kind of global challenges the initiative addresses by providing local solutions
The project addresses:
- the challenge of climate change by encouraging the use of sustainable means
- the public health challenge by promoting constant physical activity
- the challenge of human well-being by enhancing sociability and the correct use of urban spaces
- the challenge of cooperation between institutions
- the adaptation policies that each institution will be forced to face

Please detail the scope of progress in the implementation of the initiative. This can include already demonstrated results/outputs related to the chosen Prizes category, and the already achieved benefits from the initiative for direct and indirect beneficiaries. This can also include a development plan of the initiative, with a particular attention to the steps envisaged in the year following the application, and including envisaged results and benefits from the initiative
Currently, after 3 months of activity, 2540,48 kg of CO2 have been saved certified by the tracking app, 18226,78 km traveled on foot, by bicycle or scooter divided into 13011 trips, with 120 active users (80 students and 40 adults) for cash back and 240 for the pedibus. Approximately €1700 in vouchers were disbursed and approximately €170 spent in local shops
In the coming years we will want to increase users as much as possible by using the incentives and emulation resulting from this activity

Please provide documents that demonstrate the maturity level of the initiative and commitment to implement the initiative in practice (e.g.: evaluation report, final or mid-term initiative report, certification, publications, building permit, grant agreement, letter of support, partnership agreement, etc.)
PDF
PDF
If relevant, please describe how your initiative contributes to developing new competences, especially in the context of the European competence framework on sustainability.
1a. Ride to School
Sustainable development goals of the 2030 agenda pursued
GOAL 3: HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
GOAL 4: QUALITY EDUCATION
GOAL 7: CLEAN AND ACCESSIBLE ENERGY
GOAL 8: DECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
GOAL 9: BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE
GOAL 11: SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES
GOAL 12: RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION
GOAL 13: FIGHT AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
GOAL 17: PARTNERSHIP FOR GOALS
Key citizenship competencies
Key competencies for lifelong learning
Digital competence
Personal, social competence and the ability to learn to learn
Competence in matters of citizenship
1b. Pedibus
GOAL 3 Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.
GOAL 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy services for all.
Goal 11 - Sustainable cities and communities
Objective 12 - Responsible use of resources
GOAL 13.
2. Hack-a-town
Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities to make cities and urban settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production to ensure sustainable production and consumption patterns
Goal 17: Partnership for the Goals to strengthen delivery modalities revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
3. Outdoor education
Goal 3 GOOD HEALTH AND WELL BEING
Goal 4 QUALITY EDUCATION
Goal 9 INDUSTRY, INNOVATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE
Goal 11 SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES
Goal 12 RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION
Goal 15 LIFE ON LAND
Objective 3 - Health and well-being
Objective 4 - Quality education
Goal 11 - Sustainable cities and communities
Objective 12 - Responsible use of resources
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