World Science Day 2011

World Science Day for Peace and Development is celebrated each year on 10 November. UNESCO is happy to announce that the theme of this year’s World Science Day focuses on the role of science, ‘Towards green societies: equity, inclusiveness, participation’.

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ECO-UNESCO Young Environmentalist Showcase & Awards Ceremony

Green teens from St. Josephs College, Athlone were crowned the 2012 Overall Senior ECO-UNESCO Young Environmentalists of the year for their ‘Wormery Works’ project with the 2012 Overall Junior Award scooped by teens from Our Lady & St. Patrick’s College, Belfast for the ‘The Big Tidy Up,’ at Awards Ceremony held in the Round Room of the Mansion House, in Dublin on 8th May.

In attendance were over 600 young people and special guests Ms. Frances Fitzgerald, Minister for Children Youth Affairs, Andrew Montague, Lord Mayor of Dublin and the youthful master of ceremonies, Stephen Byrne, RTÉ presenter. The group from St Joseph’s College Summerhill implemented a successful wormery and waste reduction campaign in their school. Thanks to their winning worms and inspiring awareness raising activities, this group is reducing waste in their school, supplying their organic garden with compost and setting an excellent environmental example for their peers and the public. The ‘Big Tidy Up’ from Our Lady and St. Patricks in Belfast, carried out an anti-litter campaign which reached global levels as they linked up with schools in Croatia and Washington.

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