Environmental Education in schools is an indispensable and structural tool to promote responsible and conscious behavior of children and young people towards the environment and nature conservation. The “People of LAND” main objectives were: Making pupils (future active citizens), aware of environmental, sustainability issues and climate change, in order to develop eco-friendly habits; Promoting the environmental citizenship of young people by identifying situations that should be improved from an ecological point of view; Development of student and teacher cooperation in environmental causes, namely those close to them, involving them directly in their resolution and building the foundations for a more democratic and ecologically healthy society; Understanding the link between 'sustainable food' and its significant impact on the environment, health and food waste; Improving the students green skills; Improving the English language and Increasing ICT skills. In general terms, we wanted our students to become young people who are active in environmental causes and citizens who are aware of the need to develop Green Skills.
Over the years, several projects have been developed with the aim of contributing to the continuous training of children and young people who are more responsible and concerned with preserving the environment and Planet Earth, maintaining the quality of life, but without compromising the future of the next generations. The core motivation of the project is perfectly described in the title: People of LAND. We wanted students to know their realities effectively, to analyze their actions critically, and become aware of the need to "Think locally in order to act globally”. Throughout these two school years, activities were carried out to promote values and change attitudes and behaviors towards the environment, in order to prepare our students to exercise a conscious, dynamic, and informed citizenship towards current environmental issues. The reality of the schools involved in the project is very different and it was very interesting to see how the students assimilated the different realities, how they critically analyzed these realities and even how they tried to incorporate the most interesting things they had learned from the other countries into their schools.