The João de Deus Secondary School Student Association, from Faro, won the Green Project Awards, with the project “We propose: knowing to improve Faro”, which aims to identify the city's problems and their causes, promoting education for citizenship.
The Green Project Awards, which were released this Tuesday, distinguished 19 projects across the country. Since 2008, the award rewards sustainable development initiatives.
The GPAs are an initiative of the communication consultancy GCI, in partnership with the Portuguese Environment Agency and Quercus, and for the first time included an award for projects carried out by young people aged 13 to 17, in the Youth Initiative-Project 80 category. In this category, the Farense Secondary Students' Association was awarded.
Students are entitled to a trip to Brussels to discover the European institutions. The remaining winners – in total, seven first prizes and 11 honorable mentions were given, plus one Best Original Work award – have the possibility to use the GPA seal in their institutional and corporate communication.
Esporão, UCASUL, Azores Hydrographic Administration of the Regional Directorate for the Environment, EPAL, Ecologicalkids, ASPEA and students from Escola Secundária João de Deus, in Faro, were the big winners of the 6th edition of the Green Project Awards (GPA) 2013 in Portugal.
Those awarded in Agriculture, Sea and Tourism; Research & Development; Information Technology; Efficient Resource Management; Product or Service, SIC Notícias Mobilization Initiative and Iniciativa Jovem, respectively, were unveiled today at the Champalimaud Foundation, in Lisbon.
The event was attended by the Minister of Environment, Spatial Planning and Energy, Jorge Moreira da Silva, and the Minister of Agriculture and the Sea, Assunção Cristas, among other guests.
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