Blooming schools

Blooming Schools is an EU-funded project implemented in 4 European countries: Greece, Portugal, Malta, and Romania. It wishes to bring a touch of green activism into schools and to the children frequenting them by investing in the creation of wildlife gardens on the schools’ grounds, where those are absent, to be used as a learning environment, as a way to promote integrated learning.

This project is led by a consortium of 7 partners – BirdLife Malta, Portuguese Society for the Study of Birds, Friends of the Earth, Hellenic Ornithological Society, Agrupamento de Escolas de Portela e Moscavide, St Nicholas College Dingli Secondary, and Station Europe. Blooming Schools integrates Vlogging Academy for Sustainability – a modular hub created by Station Europe for young people who want to become content creators – using social media elements to raise awareness of problems that they care about.

The project is based on the idea that young people have a better understanding of a subject when they use their 5 senses and consists of a bottom-up approach, involving pupils of secondary school (13-18 years old). By creating these wildlife gardens, we wish to give practical information to young people and teachers on what they can do, in order to save and restore biodiversity. We seek to give young people the right tools, competencies and skills to become changemakers.