School competition “We won’t throw the food away!”

As part of the LIFE IP CARE4CLIMATE project, the Ministry of Environment, Climate and Energy, in cooperation with EcoSchool, has launched a competition for primary school pupils to find ways to reduce food waste at school, at home and at relatives’ homes. The goal of the competition is to raise young people’s  awareness of the environmental and climate consequences of food waste and to motivate them to find innovative solutions to reduce food waste. All primary schools are invited to participate.
Participating pupils will estimate how much food is wasted after each meal at school or at home. They will find out which foods are most often thrown away and investigate the reasons for food waste. They will use measuring sheets or interview their classmates about their eating habits.
Participants will design activities and practical tips to reduce food waste. As part of the communication campaign, they will also design eye-catching visuals – either in the form of a poster or a short video – to encourage their peers and relatives to be responsible food stewards. We will encourage pupils to use their grandparents’ sayings and wisdom about food, perhaps even in the dialect of their home town, as we believe the messages are more likely to resonate with people. Submissions (or links to posts) should be sent to info@ekosola.si by 10 March 2025, with the subject line “Campaign for less food waste”. The winner of the competition will be announced at an event to mark the Slovenian No Food Waste Day on 24 April.

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Šolsko tekmovanje »Stran pa ne bomo metal’!«

Ministrstvo za okolje, podnebje in energijo je v okviru projekta LIFE IP CARE4CLIMATE v sodelovanju z Ekošolo objavilo nagradni natečaj, v katerem bodo osnovnošolci iskali načine za zmanjšanje količin odpadne hrane v šoli, doma in pri sorodnikih. Namen natečaja je spodbuditi mlade k zavedanju o okoljskih in podnebnih posledicah odpadne hrane ter jih motivirati k iskanju inovativnih rešitev za zmanjšanje odpadne hrane. K sodelovanju so povabljene vse osnovne šole, in sicer učenci II. in III. triade.
Sodelujoči učenci bodo ocenili, koliko hrane se zavrže po vsakem obroku v šoli ali doma. Ugotovili bodo, katera živila se najpogosteje zavržejo in raziskali razloge za nastajanje odpadne hrane. Pri tem si bodo pomagali z merilnimi listi ali anketirali sošolce o njihovih prehranjevalnih navadah. Udeleženci natečaja bodo oblikovali dejavnosti in pripravili praktične nasvete za zmanjšanje količine odpadne hrane. V sklopu komunikacijske kampanje bodo zasnovali tudi privlačne vizualne oglase – bodisi v obliki plakata bodisi kratkega videa – s katerimi bodo spodbudili vrstnike in sorodnike k odgovornemu ravnanju s hrano. Učencem svetujemo, da uporabijo pregovore in modrosti starih staršev o hrani, morda celo v narečju domačega kraja, saj smo prepričani, da se bodo sporočila prej dotaknila ljudi. Prispevki (ali povezave do objav) morajo biti oddani najkasneje do 10. marca 2025 na elektronski naslov info@ekosola.si, s pripisom »Kampanja za manj odpadne hrane«. Zmagovalec natečaja bo razglašen na dogodku ob slovenskem dnevu brez zavržene hrane, ki ga obeležujemo 24. aprila.