Schools get extra funding for climate-related projects
Pupils’ projects include converting petrol-powered go-karts to electricity and creating their own bioplastics
€375,000 in subsidies
The initiative is part of the action plan to promote Stem disciplines – science, technology, engineering and mathematics – in education. Crevits is aiming to link the government’s efforts concerning the promotion of Stem studies with action concerning the climate challenge.
“For this challenge, the Stem disciplines can make an important difference,” she said. “These school projects can help to show youngsters the innovative aspects of a future profession or course of study while making them more aware of the climate problems.”
Seventeen primary schools, 74 secondary schools and one centre for adult education will receive subsidies of up to €5,000 per project.
Students at Don Bosco in Helchteren will convert a petrol kart into an electric kart, for example, while Sint-Paulus in Waregem will produce electricity through bicycles and Koninklijk Atheneum campus de Reynaert (pictured) in Tielt will make its own bioplastics.
Photo courtesy Koninklijk Atheneum Tielt
