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World Environmental Day Celebration: Closing of the First Climantica Conference

Posted 06 06, 2008 at 24:00 || Category Activities

In order to celebrate the World Environmental Day, the first Climantica Conference was held on the 5th of June at Fernando Blanco’s Secondary School in Cee.

In this Conference, the Director General for Sustainable Development and Climantica’s Director gave a lecture in the assembly hall. Following the lecture, students could get some information on causes and effects of climate change in the thematic stands set up for this purpose. Some students, who were trained during three days by the Climantica expert responsible for school activities, were in charge of explaining all those issues to their schoolmates by means of experiments.

During the break, students could enjoy the performances of magicians, acrobats and jugglers. The World Environmental Day celebration was closed with the Climantopia show in which music, magic and multimedia reinforced the Environmental education messages delivered by some tales and songs. The purpose of this activity was to test this scheme so that it can be exported to other pilot schools involved and interested in the Climantica project.

Climantica Awards, second edition

Posted 04 10, 2008 at 24:00 || Category Climántica

CLIMANTICA AWARDS FOR PROJECTS SUBMITTED TO THE FIRST CLIMANTICA CONFERENCE FOR STUDENTS

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The Regional Ministry for the Environment and Sustainable Development announces the second edition of the Climantica Awards whose aim is to raise awareness of climate change among students. The prize consists of a five-day stage in an environmental education facility in Galicia, in which participants can also join on sports and leisure activities. This activity will be developed at the end of the school period in two different programmes: Secondary Education programme will take place from 23 to 27 June 2008, and Sixth Form programme will be held from 8 to 12 September 2008. Unlike the first edition of Climantica Awards held in November 2007, in this edition those projects that were submitted to the First Climantica Conference for students will be awarded the prizes and they will be published in the first issue of the magazine CLMNTK.

These Awards comprise the following categories:

1.-Literature: Essays, real or fiction stories, or poetry focused on an issue covered in the Climantica project..

1.1 Narrative

1.2 Poetry

1.3 Comics

2.-Multimedia: Formats submitted should have the following features: minimum resolution: 320 x 240, Video Format: mov, mp4, vob, dv, flv, avi, 3gp.

2.1 Short films telling a story based on a script. Short videos (see how to film with the mobile phone).

2.2 Presentations

2.3 Interviews, theatre performances or song recordings

3.-Visual Arts:

3.1 Photography: Each picture should include a reference to what the author intends to communicate with it.

3.2 Paintings

3.3 Pósters. The originals should be posted to Climantica’s contact address.

All projects submitted must be accompanied by the application form in which the author or authors (máximum 3 members in each team) describe what they wish to communicate with the project..

The projects should be sent to the following e-mail address: concursos@climantica.org. The deadline to submit projects is on 15 May 2008.

All those projects that meet the requirements will be uploaded in the website, in the Schools section and published in the students’ magazine CLMNTK. The students will be rewarded with a T-shirt or a jersey. For this purpose they should indicate the item they choose and the size.

YOU CAN ALSO TAKE PART IN CLIMANTICA AUTHORS CONFERENCE

Those projects selected to be published in the students’magazine CLMNTK will be presented in the First Climantica Conference for Students. The awards will be announced in the course of this conference that will be held on the 21 June at the Conference Centre, in Santiago de Compostela.

There will be 10 prizes in each category for both Secondary education and Sixth-Form students, so that 30 students will enjoy the stage in June and 30 students in September. If the projects submitted to any particular category do not meet the minimum quality requirements to award the 10 prizes, the number of prizes for the other categories could be increased, provided that their quality is good enough. Prizes could not be awarded if the jury considers that there are not enough quality projects to award 30 prizes for secondary education students and 30 prizes for Sixth-Form students.

To be eligible, projects will be assessed according to the following criteria:

- They must be original.

- They must be produced in a rigorous way.

- They must be able to raise awareness to public.

- They must show a high standard in its technical production.

- Their content must establish links to different issues and their understanding.

In order to be able to be awarded prizes, students should submit a certificate issued by the school where they have been enrolled in the school year 2007-2008, specifying the level they have reached. In addition, they must also deliver a registered copy of the Identity Card and if the student is a minor, he or she should present their parents’ consent, to attend the stage, signed either by their father, mother or guardian.

TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE

If you come across difficulties in producing your project, please do not hesitate to contact us by e-mail: concursos@climantica.org

Climántica at the Orienta Forum 2008

Posted 04 09, 2008 at 24:00 || Category Activities

CLIMANTICA CAREERS

Climántica presented the project called Climántica Careers at the Orienta Forum 08 which was held at IFEVI in Vigo from the 8th to the 13th April 2008. A group of four Climantica academic counselor who had been previously trained by R&D and occupational training experts took part in this initiative in order to guide students on research and professionalization scenarios opened in mitigation and adaptation to fight against climate change. A brochure containing information on the main vocational training areas was produced. In addition some workshops on “building a solar oven” and “Climate Change” were developed.

New: Yo can watch a video in Climántica TV.

Documentary on the first Climantica prizes

Posted 12 10, 2007 at 24:00 || Category Activities

The students awarded the first Cimantica prizes enjoyed an Enviromental Education stage from 31 October to 4 November 2007, in which they performed several environamental education activities: routes into a native forest ("fraga"), orientation games, theatre centred on climate change, a visit to Sotavento in order to study clean energies, workshops on solar ovens, waste management, tree identification and so on. In addition, they played some games and sports such as canoeing along the Ares estuary.

You can download the first issue of the comic "Palmira and Marcial, Environmental Action is Vital"

Posted 11 29, 2007 at 24:00 || Category Climántica

This comic allows young students to become aware of the problem of climate change at a global level and the need to get everybody involved in its solution. At the same time, it focuses on the the possibility that this problem does not only affect the survival of many species, but also on the fact that it can jeopardise the human survival.