RCE Graz Styria-2010

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1. General Information
Contact Name(s): 
Clemens Mader
Role in the project: 
Project Management
E-Mail Address(es): 
clemens.mader@uni-graz.at
Project-relevant information: 
Press Release:
http://www.uni-graz.at/newswww_detail.htm?reference=99183

For the download of the information boards:
http://www.uni-graz.at/rce/ressourcen.htm
Upload: 
PDF icon Endbericht_AK1.pdf
Filename (optional): 
Final Report (german)
2. Project Information
1. Project title: 
UN Decade Project: Sustainability Trail in Trofaiach
2. Project Description: 
In the context of an interdisciplinary study course at University of Graz students of Environmental System Sciences in cooperation with teenagers from the youth center "Fun House" in Trofaiach developed a sustainability trail. Beside this mutual learning process, sustainable development issues are presented to the public by a trail with information points on sustainability topics.


This project was awarded by the Austrian UNESCO Commision as a UN Decade Project.
3. Project Status: 
Finished
4. Key Words
Other: 
Sustainability
5. Project categories
Project categories: 
Education
Awareness building
Material production
6. Expected outcomes:: 
Awareness building towards sustainability for the inhabitants of Trofaiach.
7. Duration of the Project:: 
A sustainability trail with seven information boards (to be downloaded at: http://www.uni-graz.at/rce/ressourcen.htm) has been established on a panorama walking trail in trofaiach.
3. Project Leadership & Vision
8. Project coordination (e.g. teams): 
The students coordinated all activities though they were supported by the the lecturers of the course.
9. Leadership structure
a. Administration: 
4
b. Transactional: 
4
c. Transformational: 
2
4. Project results
10. Project results : 
The knowledge transfer form University of Graz to a small styrian town aims to have impact on inhabitants of all age. It aims to build up awarness for sustainable development and a change in lifestyle towards a more sustainable way of living.
The cooperation with the local youth centre enabled a direct contact to a main target group and made them to multiplicators by involving them in the development process.
11. Contribution to reforms and innovations: 
Since the project contributes to a higher level of awarness towards sustainability among the local population, understanding and support for changes in the local agenda are more likely.
13.Core Partners: 
University of Graz; Youth Centre "FUN HOUSE"; City of Trofaiach; Department for Youth, Women, Family and Generations of the Province of Styria; Federal Ministery for Economy and Work
5. Partnership and networking
14. Project Network
a. Information network: 
4
b. Knowledge network: 
5
c. Innovation network: 
1
6. Participation
15. Type of involvement: 
At the youth centre workshops were held, surveys conducted, excursions offerd, a film presented and lots of discussions took place.
16. Participation opportunities
a. Informational participation: 
2
b. Consultation participation: 
5
c. Decision influencing participation : 
3
7. Education & Learning
17. Educational activities: 
The main educational element of the projekt is the sustainability trail itself. Its supposed to rise the awarness among the population of the city of Trofaiach towards sustainable development.

In the development of the trail the cooperation with the youth centre included also educational elements. The group learned intensively on issues of sustainable development.
18. Learning activities: 
Its supposed to rise the awarness among the population of the city of Trofaiach towards sustainable development.
19. Educational activities
a. Theory: 
6
b. Discussion: 
2
c. Interactive and Multidimensional "action oriented education": 
2
Type: 
Project Reports
Region: 
Europe
Community: 
Youth
Issue: 
Capacity Development
One More Issue: 
Biodiversity
Country: 
Austria