The AUGE Project had three main objectives: 1) To inform and raise awareness in students about ecological issues and climate change. 2) To inform and support Teachers and Headmasters both on how to save energy in schools and how they could cultivate the students' ecological sensibilities. 3) To design actions and educational material that would contribute to the achievement of the project's main goal in a creative and innovative manner, providing participants the opportunity to leave their "green footprint" on society, but also to develop soft and other key competences and skills.
Our main aim in applying for this project was to make a contribution apropos environmental issues and climate change in a novel and creative way, by integration of the arts and by inculcating our activities with a social dimension. Accordingly, we attempted to educate and raise the awareness of Primary and Secondary school pupils on issues relating to the environment, climate change and soft forms of energy outside the school context and by means of experiential workshops. We believe that the environmental crisis is the outcome of an ethical crisis and that only a re-evalution of the current ethical system could initiate a new beginning. The arts have a central role to play in this and this is the reason why we tried to integrate them so dynamically into the project's activities. We also think that children should be educated on environmental issues from an early stage, that's why our project focused on School Education.