VIDEO | Inspector 'Waste' and Hera's other environmental activities return to school

Educational activities dedicated to the Environment are back, with which the Hera Group aims to "train more informed and responsible citizens"

BOLOGNA – Students in environmental lessons.In fact, a few days after returning to school, Hera's educational activities also return, with its environmental education programs in schools of all levels, organized for more than 20 years.So here it is “The great machine of the world”, dedicated to the four-13 year age group And “A well of science” for the 14-19 age group, with over 70 new free activities of your choice on energy, water, environment but also innovation and sustainability.An educational offer that in the 2022-23 school year alone involved almost 100,000 students in over 4,000 classes.Great participation, therefore, for the initiatives which, integrated into school programmes, have the aim of supporting teachers and students in studying urgent topics such as the circular economy, recycling, waste collection, climate change and also scientific innovation.

This year there is also the new challenge"#GmmChallenge“, aimed at children and families, which rewards small daily actions with the planting of new trees in the city, up to 300 in a year.“Our commitment is to train more informed and responsible citizens, so that they can become protagonists of a complex but possible future", underlines Valentina Cervellati, head of Hera Group school projects.A "quality interdisciplinary teaching proposal, available free of charge to the entire school community, to stimulate an increasingly environmentally friendly awareness, a solid culture of sustainability among young people and at the same time give them useful tools to act on change", adds Giuseppe Gagliano, central director of Communications and External Relations of the multi-utility.

ACTIVITIES FOR AGES 4 TO 13

With “The Great Machine of the World”, Hera wants to make the little ones aware of their role as protagonists in caring for the environment:starting from the cartoon chosen for the cover of this year's leaflet, created with the cartoonist Alessia Iotti (aka Alterales), which depicts determined young people advancing towards the future with pieces of the Earth's puzzle in their hands:the message is that each with their little piece can make a difference.New to this edition is the first Science Show with effective experiments for primary schools and tinkering laboratory dedicated to middle schoolers to discover how to give new life to electronic waste through inventions. Come back the Waste Inspector which, with its transparent box, will guide the kids in differentiating effectively.And then space for laboratories, scientific courses on climate change, Classy “plogging”. (jogging while collecting rubbish, ed.), challenges between teams, webinar with experts like Luca Mercalli up to the creation of a real podcast on water with the participation of radio speaker Gianpiero Kesten.

THE WORKSHOPS FOR THE 14-19 GROUP

Instead, it will be focused on scientific dissemination."A well of science” for high schools:scientific laboratories focused on the objectives of the UN Agenda 2030, live events, interviews with researchers and experts, discussion games on artificial intelligence.Finally, guided visits and virtual tours of the Hera Group plants are reconfirmed for all activities, in person and remotely.Among the new features, the virtual tour of Aliplast, a Group company, leader in the recycling and regeneration of plastic materials, committed every day to transforming waste into new and precious resources.So let's start with registrations for the interested institutes:on the website renewed for the occasion www.gruppohera.it/scuole, from 26 September to 31 October teachers will be able to request the registration of their class for the activities of The Great Machine of the World and high schools will be able to ask to join A Science Well from 2 October to 15 November.Also on the portal you can also find the catalog of the activities of both projects which will be presented to the teachers in two virtual Open Days on 25 and 28 September.