Green Schools competition

The Green Schools Competiton aims at improving the energy performance of the school buildings managed by the Province of Treviso by raising the awareness and changing the behaviour of school builiding users, so that they can contribute, through concrete actions, to reduce energy consumption and carbon footprint. In fact, it is demonstrated that a responsible energy behaviour can reduce energy consumption up to 8% in a building, besides having important educational implications. Every year the Province of Treviso holds a competition addressed at the 41 schools - hosted in the 100 school buildings the Province manages and maintains. The schools can participate in the competitioin on a voluntary basis by implementing energy saving actions, regulated by specific criteria, which are evaluated and awarded by a Commission. The latest editions were organized after the logic of the Living Lab. The competition is based on the participation in 3 categories: - reduction of the electricity consumption - best Energy Teams - Sustainable Coach. After the evaluation of the projects presented by the schools, the Commission draws up the ranking of all the participating schools and prizes are given to the best ranking ones. This project was born within the framework of the third generation Global Service project-GSI Green Schools, i.e. external service contracted for the energy management and maintenance of the secondary school and institutional buildings of the Province of Treviso.