The project ‘Knowing the global environment to act locally: from learning in natural areas to urban intervention (GLOCAL-act)’

• Autor(a) principal: Almeida, António
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Silva, Maria João, Valente, Bianor, Rodrigues, Margarida, Manteigas, Vítor
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/9240
• topic: Sustainable development; Agenda 2030; Natural areas; Higher education; Primary education

The project "Knowing the global environment to act locally: from learning in natural areas to urban intervention (GLOCAL-act)" began in January 2017. The project integrates five teachers from the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon (Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa - IPL), 4 from the Lisbon School of Education (Escola Superior de Educação - ESELx) and one from the Higher School of Health Technologies and it involves pre-service teachers and children from primary schools, where these pre-service teachers have teaching practice. It obtained funding from the Environmental Fund, under the responsibility of the Portuguese Ministry of the Environment. The project aims to meet the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the National Strategy for Environmental Education 2020 in the following strands: to decarbonize society by promoting the development of a resilient and low carbon society; to value the Territory by promoting a territorial civic culture that considers land planning and the conservation and valorization of landscape, natural and cultural heritage. Thus, the project aims to achieve the following objectives: i) the valorization of natural areas, promoting their visitation and a greater knowledge of the biodiversity and geodiversity that characterizes them; ii) the promotion of sustainable mobility between the Campus of the IPL and the Monsanto Forest Park (Parque Florestal de Monsanto), a green area close to the Campus and iii) local action with the aim of improving the environmental quality of the Campus of the IPL. Consequently, several trips to areas of natural interest in the Lisbon region have been carried out. The mobility between the IPL Campus and the Monsanto Forest Park is being intensified, enhancing the educational value of this area within the scope of several activities of different curricular units. An intervention in the Campus of the IPL was carried out with the planting of at least 100 trees and 100 shrubs of different species of the Mediterranean flora. The sites for this plantation were selected by ESELx students, after the evaluation of the characteristics of each species and the identification of the Campus areas that need an increase in plant density. At the end, a general assessment of the project will be discussed.