Geschwister-Scholl-Realschule plus Andernach

by | May 16, 2021 | Education, Germany, Middle-Rhine Region, Other

Geschwister-Scholl-Realschule plus Andernach

Geschwister-Scholl-Realschule plus is a secondary school in the city centre of Andernach. Our students are aged between 10 and 17 years and come from Andernach itself or surrounding villages and towns. They aim to achieve a graduation which enables them either for a vocational training or a higher school education.

True to our name – the Scholl siblings were a resistance group against the Nazis – civic courage and tolerance play an important part in our school life. As a Schule ohne Rassismus – Schule mit Courage = school without racism – school with courage we had an event Kochen gegen Rassismus = cooking against racism, where our students prepared typical dishes from the countries where their families had come from. This food was served to other students and to visitors of an edible-city-festival in Andernach.

Other focal points of our school are sports like athletics and football, music like instrumental lessons and trashdrumming as well as languages like French and bilingual teaching in English.

Although we are an inner city school we have a small school garden and try to create a greener school yard. In cooperation with the city of Andernach a group of our students recently built several wooden raised beds which will be planted with flowers and vegetables in spring.

Contact:

Salentinstraße 12
56626 Andernach
Germany

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Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation

by | May 16, 2021 | East of England, England, Other, Processing, Production

Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation

Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation is the successor to First Garden City Limited, formed by Ebenezer Howard to develop the world’s first garden city in 1903. 

Today the Foundation is a community benefit society, acting as a place based endowed charitable organisation that works to maintain and enhance the world’s first Garden City, managing a local property portfolio to generate income, to re-invest back into the community and landscape of Letchworth Garden City through a series of charitable commitments.  This means that the greater proportion of Letchworth and the surrounding farmland sits within the Foundation’s freehold. 

The Foundation’s property portfolio held in Letchworth and other assets are in excess of £170 million, with an annual income is in circa £12 million, the surplus of which (£7.7 million in 2018) is reinvested through various charitable activities and grants.   This includes a range of services, such as a cinema, theatre, family/educational farm, day hospital, tourist information, museum services, allotments and rural/environmental improvements, as well as a grants programme for local groups and individuals.  The distribution of this charitable reinvestment is determined by a community governance structure that is formed of local volunteers and a Board of Trustees that includes a District and County Councillor.

Contact:

Broadway Letchworth SG6
3BF Great Britain

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REACT Association la Recherche en Action

by | May 15, 2021 | Other, Raw resource input, Region Tunis, Resource and waste recovery, Tunisia

REACT Association la Recherche en Action

REACT is a sustainable development association with an expertise in the fields of Water management and the integration of non-conventional water (rainwater, wastewater) for optimal use of water resources in arid environment and to achieve zero discharge.  The treatment of non-conventional water by nature-based systems (CW) to be in accordance with planned use, health requirements and the reuse of the related nutriments.

Protection of biodiversity while developing and integrating endemic plants into both ecological and production systems.  Governance and institutional aspects related to water and health and support to decision-makers and main actors. Moderation, dissemination and awareness-raising among different target groups including young people.

Some of our best practice examples are:

  • Contribution for the identification of suitable plants for an installed community garden (Project JaCoTuCo Tunis/Cologne).
  • Creation of micro-reserve for the conservation of Jerba’s heritage species (CEPF project, Jerba).
  • Elaboration of a charter for the conservation of a strict endemic species / development of Garrat Sajnane (CEPF Project, Save Plants).
  • Assistance to decision-makers concerning water governance / water code and national health policy (water governance project and social health dialogue).
  • Awareness and training of young people in the creation of terrariums.
  • Raising awareness among young people on water management by developing interesting collective games with the collaboration of the City of Science of Tunis (Water Governance Project).
  • Awareness-raising among decision-makers and the local population on the conservation value of Garaat Sejnene plants (IUCN-Med project).

Our main role in the project is  to support the Follower City Carthage with the integration of ECS into urban master plans and the ECS development adapted to specific climatic, social and cultural contexts.  This implies the integration of sustainable components on ECS linked to water and biodiversity,  co-creation and exchange meetings with main actors as well as the implementation of the Carthage city team, including the awareness-rising, capacity building, dissemination and the sustainability of EdiCitNet achievements.
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