The project was financed by the US Embassy in Ukraine
Main goal
Promoting energy and environmental efficiency in Ukraine by encouraging youth (school students) to be strongly attracted by environmental and technical education.
Target audience
Schoolchildren 9-11 grades who plan to receive higher education and in 5 to 8 years (the period necessary for training specialists) may become the locomotives of economic development and environmental protection.
Main idea
Growing demand for highly qualified technical and environmental specialists that national companies and organizations face today strongly triggered the project idea. The sufficient amount of such specialists will help Ukraine fill up the gap between the demand for technical experts and people who preferred vocational training.
Idea creators
The project was elaborated by Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production Centre (RECPC) experts. The Centre has been successfully dealing with resource efficiency and cleaner production (RECP) since 2013. RECPC provides support to national companies and institutions in increasing resource efficiency and improving the environmental footprint due to efforts made in technology transfer, energy audits etc. It should be added that the majority of the RECPC staff has been delivering environmental and technical subjects for the students at national Universities as well as sharing related knowledge with Ukrainian companies.
Key tasks
- help the target audience get familiar with advantages and prospects of technical education;
- raise interest between school students towards modern technical inventions and research studies in the issues of environmental protection and natural resources preservation;
- give fundamental reasons in favour of technical education for the future generation of Ukraine; justifying the key tool of technical education in successful development of Ukraine.
- computer engineering (programming (IT specialists);
- nanotechnology (manipulation technologies and use of components);
- environmental safety (rational natural resources use, emissions, human safety);
- “green” technologies;
- energy efficiency (energy saving and renewable energy sources);
- robot technique: developments and perspectives;
- machine-building and metal working;
- engineering ecology;
- engineer-designer (construction);
- aerospace engineering, astronomy
- raising awareness on the benefits of environmental and technical education among school student and their family members;
- increasing the share of students who choose technical and environmental for their higher education;
- creating an online platform gathering together school students, University students and RECPC experts to provide information exchange and share in related area, i.e. environmental care, energy efficiency at national companies. Such a platform will for sure attract more and more interested people (youth) for cooperation thus widening the network of people who care about the environment and are eager to help Ukraine in gaining its economic prosperity
Final Project Video
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