New Nordic climate challenge to boost environmental awareness in children

The climate material is intended for the science and social sciences subjects and consists of, amongst other things, an exciting Nordic school competition on saving energy called 'The Climate Challenge".

"The Climate Challenge will strengthen the Nordic focus on sustainability, by encouraging co-operation and competition at the same time in the teaching of energy and environment in Nordic schools", states the Secretary General of the Nordic Council of Ministers, Dagfinn Høybråten, at the launch of the portal.

The Nordic Climate Challenge is a unifying offer for the Nordic schools on co-operation, common disciplines and education for and towards a greener future together. The offer builds on the Nordic countries' curricula and is flexible and dynamic based on digital teaching resources."

The offer will be part of the Nordic teaching portal ”nordeniskolen.org”. The portal has been live for a year now and has already more than 1400 teachers registered from across the region.

The climate challenge is part of a major green growth initiative that the Nordic prime ministers have asked the Nordic Council of Ministers to administer. Read more on www.nordicway.org 

Happy teachers

There is great satisfaction with the joint Nordic teaching material amongst one of the most important target groups, the teachers in the Nordic countries.

"nordeniskolen.org is built up in an easy and straightforward way with excellent broad themes. The pupils can quickly find what they are looking for, and on the sub-pages of the website there is a wealth of assignments and teaching suggestions for the teacher in the 'teacher's room'," says Martin Jantzen, teacher at Lundtofte School in Lyngby, Denmark.

Åse Tyldum at Breidablikk School in Trondheim, Norway agrees:

"Nordeniskolen makes it easy to get in contact with teachers in other Nordic countries and pupils can easily get in touch across country borders. My class has had a Swedish friendship class this school year, which has been a positive experience for both the teachers and the pupils", she explains.

Be part of improving the common Nordic dimension in teaching. Read more about it and pre-register on the intro pages on www.klimaduellen.org