On October 22nd 2021, five members of the ENERGE Project Team held an online session as part of the EU Sustainable Energy Week Extended Programme. It was a great session filled with insights into various aspects of the ENERGE Project.
Its purpose was to present several actions in order to educate and engage students of our demonstration schools to be more sustainable. Moreover, the speakers had the opportunity to introduce a replicability planning providing means for other schools to adopt this approach after the project has ended.
This presentation mainly focused on :
Understanding student’s behaviors
Teaching them how to change their behaviors to be more sustainable
Informing them of the impacts of their changes in behavior
How these practices can be combined together in a package to offer long term effects
The program was the following :
Introduction to session including an outline on the upcoming talks, and participant setup on Slido
Dr. Edelle Doherty
Postdoctoral Researcher National University of Ireland, Galway
Topic 1: Posing the question: “By educating our future decision makers now, can we help them to make informed choices?”
Dr. Eoghan Clifford
Senior Lecturer and ENERGE Project Lead National University of Ireland, Galway
Topic 2: “Understanding student’s attitudes and behaviours towards energy efficiency”
Dr. Nadine Roudil Professor Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Topic 3: “Teaching students about energy efficiency”
Dr. Eilis McLoughlin Associate Professor Center for the Advancement of STEM Teaching and Learning (CASTel), Dublin City University (DCU), Ireland
Topic 4: “Informing, giving students the information they need to know”
Dr. Natalia Romero Herrera Associate Professor Delft University of Technology
Topic 5: “Sustaining, building a means of delivering long term results”
