The Blue Flag Association of Europe (ABAE) has just awarded 13 schools in the municipality of Lagoa with the Award Eco-Schools 2020. The Rio Arade Schools Group (AERA) also distinguished itself as the only Eco-Group in the Algarve.
In an online session, held on 13 November, Green Flags Day - Eco-Schools Award was celebrated, highlighting the Projects, Schools and Municipalities that contributed to making the daily life of schools and communities more sustainable.
Lagoa was positioned as the Algarve municipality with the most awarded schools, in a total of 13. AERA, one of the two School Groups in the municipality of Lagoa, also received the certificate reserved for Groupings where all educational establishments are Eco-Schools .
In recent years, the Municipality of Lagoa has developed a partnership with ABAE in the field of Education for environmental sustainability, a theme that Lagoa has chosen as the hallmark of the 2020/21 biennium. ABAE is a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) with intervention in 77 countries, specializing in education for sustainability.
«To be sustainable is to have a socio-economic system in balance with the system that involves it, that is, with the biosphere», explained Margarida Gomes, ABAE's pedagogical coordinator, in her intervention at this event.
For his part, the Mayor of Lagoa welcomed these distinctions in a year of increased difficulties, and praised the work developed within the scope of the Eco-Schools Project.
«Despite the constraints associated with the physical closure of schools at the end of the previous school year, the establishments of the public network (EspAMOL and AERA School Groups) and the private network (Nobel Internacional School) committed themselves to complying with the Eco-Schools methodology and were able to take the program to the end, namely by encouraging the development of various activities at home. The distinction is thus well deserved by teachers, students, parents/guardians, technicians from the municipality and all educational agents involved», stressed Luís Encarnação, President of the Municipality of Lagoa.
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