Benefits of being an Eco-School

• Develops the school curriculum, offers great ways to introduce environmental issues into the curriculum

• Helps develop a creative learning environment for all students involved.

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• It makes it easier to face the real problems of the school and offers transversal themes.

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• It interweaves most school subjects, fostering scientific review through cultural understandings and even data analysis.

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• It offers a learning framework for students, helping them to understand how different topics are linked together, that is, the connections between transport and pollution and climate change or the management of school grounds and the increase of the biodiversity.

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• Introduces students to the macro of environmental issues.

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• Significantly improving motivation by allowing students to know why the work they are completing is important to them and all of us who live on the planet, allows them to recognize and understand where their work fits on a local and global scale, allowing them to recognize their value in society.

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• Through the activities of the program, the development of all kinds of learning (visual - physical - naturalistic) is promoted for the participants; which is sometimes overlooked in classrooms.

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• Develops critical thinking skills, providing vital opportunities for participants to make connections between subjects.

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• Promotes learning outside the classroom with real situations. It has the ability to raise levels of learning through a variety of topics.

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• It is interdisciplinary since it unites natural aspects with social aspects.

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• It promotes proper environmental management through the participation of the entire school and community through sustainable actions.

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• It encourages the interaction between the local and global space.

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• It promotes respect, democracy and decision-making.

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• Drive participants to sustainability.

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• Develop leadership.

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• Increase academic achievement.

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• It helps to improve the behavior of the participants.

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• Develop values ​​and critical thinking.

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• It promotes the exchange of culture.

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• Establish learning networks.

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• Promotes learning inside and outside the classroom.

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• It exposes the school to an international pedagogical exchange forum.