Urban setting
- Grey infrastructure with green features
- Green playground/ school grounds
- Allotments and community gardens
- Community gardens
Key challenges
- Green space, habitats and biodiversity (SDG 15)
- Health and well-being (SDG 3)
- Sustainable consumption and production (SDG 12)
Main beneficiaries
- Public sector institution (e.g. school or hospital)
- Researchers/University
- Citizens or community groups
- Other
Project objectives
Goals of the NBS intervention include [1]:
- cost-effective way to incorporate sustainability into formal schooling
- trains university students on properly organizing and maintaining the school garden as an optional credit course at the university
- pedagogical goals: teaching cooperation in a group environment, focusing, taking responsibility, planning, scheduling and patience.
- unite schools, professional actors and companies (e.g. garden furniture, agricultural businesses), spread best practices, organize meetings and conferences, run workshops and trainings, offer free guidance, and build a network with free membership.
Implementation activities
Apáczai’s new school garden trains university students on properly organizing and maintaining the school garden with ecological methods in the format of an optional credit course at the university. The university’s students, when graduated, will be primary and secondary school teachers in Hungary, and can carry on with the good practice of school gardening. The garden also frequently hosts the eco study groups of the nearby Öveges Kálmán Elementary School, Bisinger József Kindergarten, as well as international exchange student groups. The educational Vice Dean of Apáczai also co-founded the Foundation for Hungarian School Gardens (Iskolakertekért Alapítvány). The Foundation aims to unite schools, professional actors and companies (e.g. garden furniture, agricultural businesses), spread best practices, organize meetings and conferences, run workshops and trainings, offer free guidance, and build a network with free membership. [1]
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