Title
Stimulating Sustainability

CoPED ID
75fabc31-eb9e-44b7-97bd-e1a20f3b732d

Status
Closed

Funders

Value
£108,352

Start Date
March 31, 2006

End Date
March 30, 2008

Description

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World resources are currently being consumed at an unsustainable rate. Much of this consumption is focused in the developed world that is also best placed to develop technologies and attitudes to reduce the consumption rate. EPSRC are already contributing to new technologies and have many activities connected with sustainability and the environment including research on renewable energy, bio-fuels and material recycling.In brief, this proposal aims to work with nurseries and primary schools to introduce children to issues related to sustainable development through the production of highly interactive resources for use indoors and out.The project will be based on the development of two main resources provisionally called 'The Organic Garden' and 'Energy For Free'. These will be developed for use in nurseries and primary schools. The emphasis is therefore on highly interactive resources that fulfil the requirements of the National Curriculum while fulfilling a role of EPSRC by encouraging the awareness and enthusiasm of children for engineering and science. As they will be used in schools they should ideally be relatively low cost to operate. These two resources will be able to operate individually but will ideally be used together as described below as 'Using The Wind And Sun To Make The Garden Grow'.

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Subjects by relevance
  1. Sustainable development
  2. Development (active)
  3. Natural resources
  4. Technological development
  5. School children
  6. Sustainable use

Extracted key phrases
  1. World resource
  2. Interactive resource
  3. Main resource
  4. Unsustainable rate
  5. Consumption rate
  6. Use indoor
  7. Sustainability
  8. Primary school
  9. New technology
  10. Sustainable development
  11. Organic Garden
  12. EPSRC
  13. Low cost
  14. Material recycling
  15. Nursery

Related Pages

UKRI project entry

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