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Toyota Motor Europe (TME) and Eco-Schools International Programme have launched a new European competition, challenging schools to come up with creative ideas to reduce energy consumption within their local communities. National juries in six European countries will award a total of 120,000 in grants to the most innovative proposals, giving students the opportunity to turn their ideas into a working community project. One school in each country will be crowned the National Winner for the best use of their grant, and short-listed for the pan-European title. The competition will target up to 300,000 students from around 1,800 schools in Italy, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Turkey and Portugal.
The theme of the 2007-2009 competition is Climate Change – Let’s Save Energy! It is the second time Toyota has hosted a competition as part of the Eco-Schools’ Environment and Innovation Project, which encourages students to identify and tackle environmental problems in partnership with their school and community.
Toyota Motor Europe and Eco-Schools hope to leverage the success of the first competition held by the Environment and Innovation Project, which awarded a UK primary school the top prize for their innovative idea to reduce local traffic congestion earlier this year. The Toyota Fund for Europe (TFfE) and Eco-Schools, an international programme of the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE), have been working together since 2005. The Environment and Innovation Project was originally launched as a pilot programme to promote innovative thinking and environmental education in schools across Europe.
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