Sustainable development in schools and preschools

COM-U 2009–2011

The COM-U project, Communicating environmental actions to children and youth, will implement an awareness raising campaign on the EU environmental policy and in particular the sixth environmental action programme. COM-U is a national demonstration project that runs between 2009 and 2011 and is partly financed by the EU fund Life+. The main objective of the project is to create a well informed generation that has the tools and the power to act and is able to tackle environmental issues.

For more information about the Sixth Environment Action Programme 

Main actions

The main actions of the project are the following:

Developing a network

To develop a network of regional coordinators that continuously support the implementation of the awareness rising campaign through courses, network meetings and personal support.

Implementing EU environmental policy courses

The purpose of these courses is to inspire teachers to work with the Swedish environmental objectives and to offer teachers communication tools. One element in the course is to illustrate how the Eco-School programme can be used as a tool for working with the EU environmental policy. The first courses will be offered to environmental representative from schools. At the second phase all school personnel will be able to attend. 

Implementing regional  network meetings

The purpose of the meetings is to discuss communication tools and best practices and to keep the regional network updated on the sixth environmental action programme. Schools from the regional network will participate at the meetings. 

Developing information materials

COM-U will develop information materials, for example films, competitions, teaching aids and information material for different age groups. The project will develop newsletters for different groups to inform about the project and the sixth environmental action programme.