World Environment Day, the celebration with schools in the presidential estate of Castelporziano

Bianchi: "Environmental education is a constitutive element of the new school"  

The “Educating for biodiversity” event, organized by the Ministry of Education in collaboration with the Ministry of Ecological Transition to celebrate World Environment Day, took place this morning at the Castelporziano estate. Starring students and students arriving from all over Italy. A moment of discussion on concrete experiences of biodiversity education, 30 years after the United Nations Convention on the Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro. 

Present at the ceremony were the Minister of Education, Patrizio Bianchi, the Minister of Ecological Transition, Roberto Cingolani and Undersecretary Barbara Floridia. The day's program featured speeches by school principals, female students and students on the themes of biodiversity, environmental education and sustainability.  

“We must leave behind us the years in which the virus of individualism made us forget the importance of protecting the environment. With our Charter we want to ensure that environmental education becomes a constitutive element of the new school, open, inclusive and affectionate ”, declared Minister Patrizio Bianchi.   

The Castle inside the Presidential Estate of Castelporziano, one of the three residences of the President of the Italian Republic, Rome, November 18, 2021. ANSA / RICCARDO ANTIMIANI

The morning, broadcast live on the website of the Ministry of Education, was an opportunity to relaunch the Charter for education for biodiversity, which in recent weeks has been signed by Italian schools. The Charter is wanted by the Presidency of the Republic and supported by the Ministries of Education and Ecological Transition to accompany the new generations to understand the complexity of the phenomena of nature and to act for the path of ecological and cultural transition. Schools from all over the country can join the Charter. Membership is the first step to obtain the recognition of "School in ReGeneration" by the Ministry of Education and access a program of initiatives. You can apply for membership here: https://www.ificazione.it/ri-generazione-scuola/biodiversita.html. More than 500 schools have already signed up.   

The initiative is part of the School ReGeneration (https://www.ificazione.it/ri-generazione-scuola/index.html) the Ministry of Education's Plan for the ecological and cultural transition of schools, which aims to regenerate the educational function of the school to rebuild the link between different generations, to teach that development is sustainable if it responds to the needs of present generations and does not compromise future ones, to learn to inhabit the world in a new way.  

In addition, the widespread environmental education village was inaugurated at the presidential estate in Castelporziano, open to visits by pupils and students between the ages of 8 and 14, from Rome and the Lazio Region.  

World Environment Day, the celebration with schools in the presidential estate of Castelporziano