The environmental association Zero is challenging students from secondary and vocational schools in the interior of the country to develop sustainable projects, providing funding of up to 1.500 euros for the six winning applications, the environmental association announced today.
At stake is the project “AtiveLAB: Environmental Activism Laboratories11, for which secondary and professional schools from the districts of Bragança, Guarda, Castelo Branco, Portalegre, Évora and Beja can apply until September 20, according to Zero, in a statement.
The aim of this project, financed by the Environmental Fund, is to support students’ ideas that contribute to “making their schools and localities more sustainable”, developing in three phases.
“In the citizenship laboratories, participating schools will form informal groups of interested students, who will be challenged to exercise their active citizenship and activate their sense of community as if they were in the role of an environmental association”, the note indicates.
In these laboratories, students will have the opportunity to develop their “ideas, until their structuring and execution in projects with clear and realistic environmental objectives in their schools, neighborhoods or communities”.
In the last phase of the project, after the end of the application period, the jury will choose the six winning projects, which may benefit from financial support of up to 1.500 euros.
The winning projects will be implemented between November 16 and April 30, 2025 and will be monitored not only by the supervising teachers, in a close and continuous manner, but also by ZERO facilitators/animators, online and periodically, throughout the school year.”
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