Sant Josepschool, Navàs wins the EWWR European Special Prize
Europe
awards Sant Josep school, Navàs, Catalonia for the cooperation work among
schools from six different countries for the creation of an “EWWR sustainable
Art Alphabet” which fosters sustainability and waste reduction in a creative
and cultural way.
Schools
from Catalonia, France, The Netherlands, Italy, Greece and Finland have been
involved in the project which is a little part of an eTwinning one called “ We
are art”
EWWR
Sustainable Art alphabet is an interactive ebook of a creative alphabet made of
artistic letters and meaningful messages to foster waste reduction. The main
goal of this action was to involve art, sustainability and literacy and then
spread the message all across Europe.
Students
and teacher from all the participant countries worked in a cooperative way and
this helped to spread the project though the whole school communities. Moreover
as it is part of an eTwinning project, it has also been disseminated all around
Europe.
The EWWR is
organizing an annual Awards Ceremony and recognizes the outstanding actions to
prevent and reduce waste that take place across Europe during the year.
The event was
held at the European Committee of the Regions in Brussels 15th May, and the ceremony was opened by :
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DG
environment European commission, Mr. Daniel Calleja
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ACR+
President and CEO of Zero Waste Scotland, Mr. Iain Gulland
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European
committee of the Regions, Mr. André van de Nadort