Workshop in Tourism School Bad Hofgastein
The implementation workshop was organized by BMBF in the framework of the ENIS conference in Bad Hofgastein, Austria, and took place on the 23rd of October 2014, from 10:00 am – 12:00 am.
ENIS - a European Network for innovative schools - is celebrating 10 years of existence in 2014 and has therefore organized an anniversary conference in the tourism school Bad Hofgastein. ENIS plays an important role in Austria when it comes to the promotion of ICT in schools and also the use of ICT tools in classrooms. It is therefore an important partner for the BMBF in training and supporting teachers and teacher-trainers.
The invitation to this conference was followed/accepted by 39 teachers and educational stakeholders and therefore a perfect opportunity for the GreeNET project to be presented to a broader audience.
Within this workshop that focused on Austrian GreeNET best practices in environmental education and the use of ICT tools, the first session introduced the aims and the milestones of the GreeNET project and invited teachers in a hands-on session to go through the Austrian best practice examples on the GreeNET inventory and in the second session to discuss the activities of 3 selected best practices in small groups of five people.
To sum up, the aims of this implementation workshop were:
- To present the aims and milestones of the GreeNET project
a. http://virtuelleschule.bmbf.gv.at/projekte-international/eu-projekte-aktuell/greenet/
b. http://greenet.ea.gr/ - To present the Austrian best practices in the GreeNET inventory
- To discuss the relevance of environmental education and such best practices for designing a lesson plan.
The 39 participants of this workshop were invited to discuss the Austrian best practice examples of environmental education and the relative material and also to discuss if the presented best practices are inspirational and practicable for designing their own classroom activities. The idea and the general aims of the GreeNET project were well taken up and considered to be quite useful for teachers.
