Target group: Pupils, teachers & apprentices
Offer: Workshops at schools, further training for teachers and kick-off days with a project competitionWith LI Pioneers, an entire country’s children and youth are acquiring action-based sustainability skills for the first time. They are motivated to contribute to a sustainable world with their own climate or sustainability project. Energy and Climate Pioneers is offered to pupils. Apprentices can take part in the Energy and Climate Laboratory.
Participants take part in solutions for shaping a sustainable world within the scope of their abilities.
Specific benefits
Participants broaden their knowledge of sustainability issues, climate change and climate protection
They acquire a wide range of action-based skills to campaign for sustainability
Apprentices recognise options for action in their own profession
Participants’ self-efficacy is enabled and promoted
Participants are motivated to actively contribute to shaping a climate-friendly future
Teachers recognise ways to integrate the topics of sustainable development and climate protection into their lessons in an action- and solution-based manner and apply these approaches themselves
The Pioneers for a Sustainable Liechtenstein educational programme consists of the projects Energy and Climate Pioneers Liechtenstein and Energy and Climate Laboratory Liechtenstein. In Energy and Climate Pioneers, young people from kindergarten to secondary school are encouraged to discover their scope for action by developing and implementing climate and environmental protection projects as a class. Class workshops are free of charge and can be booked by teachers. The project offers teachers direct support in implementing parts of the Education for Sustainable Development guiding principle of the new LiLe curriculum. The Energy and Climate Laboratory project focuses on vocational training in companies. It gives apprentices in Liechtenstein the unique opportunity to use their career knowledge to develop energy-saving and sustainable projects. Apprentices take part in a kick-off day and then carry out their own projects in small groups before submitting them to the national competition.
As a teacher, I appreciated that the pupils had the opportunity to actively engage with the topic of sustainability. Theoretical discussion in the classroom is important, but you can only make the principles of sustainability tangible through hands-on examples and the use of interactive methods. This lets us lay the foundation for future action in line with these principles.
