About CONNECT Talking about success and the different actions simply isn’t enough.
In the CONNECT project dissemination, implementation and learning by doing will be the main drive. The project will contribute to the EU’s energy-related objectives and policies as well as the environmental and social policies set out in the EC’s Green Paper on Energy, the White Paper on Transport and the greenhouse gas emission targets identified within the Kyoto Protocol.
The project will contribute to these goals by encouraging school children, students and their parents to use more sustainable modes when travelling to and from school.
Local communities and authorities will establish the necessary building blocks to share the project’s know-how and outcomes, providing a European-wide-web of CONNECTed members through a process that starts from an initial state of project contributors and builds upon itself, becoming larger and more beneficial in time, thereby extending the duration of the actual project life span.
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Project Factsheet update August 2008 (412 kB)
Project Factsheet update January 2009 (973 kB)
CONNECT Campaign Concept (767 kB)
Teaching and training material (2,329 kB)
Checklist and guidelines (2,173 kB)
Specific project objectives are therefore to:- Inform children, students and parents of the benefits of travelling to and from school using sustainable modes such as walking, cycling, public transport, school bus transport or carpooling;
- Teach children to travel safely to school by increasing their knowledge and skills as well as increasing their visibility in the public domain;
- Encourage children, pupils and parents to travel to school using sustainable modes.
Above all local stakeholders and key actors will be involved in the implementation and demonstration phases of the CONNECT project right from the start. They will act as promoters and champions of sustainable school travel behaviour through their role of monitoring the local implementation but also as champion for other communities and authorities, hence ensuring long term follow-up and project validity.
Expected and/or achieved results- A campaign concept for primary schools that can be successful in all European countries
- A campaign concept for secondary schools that is tested, evaluated and found to be transferable to other European countries
- A selection of best practices for young people in Europe
- Educational materials and manuals for teachers in several languages
- Excellent dissemination and the creation of a close network via Schoolway.net
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