Stimulating Sustainability

Completed

Other Cross-Cutting Technologies or Research(Environmental, social and economic impacts)

Basic and strategic applied research

SOCIAL SCIENCES (Education)
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Electrical and Electronic Engineering)

Sociological economical and environmental impact of energy (Consumer attitudes and behaviour)
Sociological economical and environmental impact of energy (Technology acceptance)
Sociological economical and environmental impact of energy (Other sociological economical and environmental impact of energy)
Other (Energy technology information dissemination)

Prof I Cotton
Electrical & Electronic Engineering
University of Manchester

Standard

EPSRC

01 April 2006

31 March 2008

24 months

£54,176

Energy

North West

Public Engagement

Prof I Cotton, Electrical & Electronic Engineering, University of Manchester

Project Contact, Dryden Street Nursery
Project Contact, Mendell Primary School
Project Contact, Whitefield Primary School

World resources are currently being consumed at an unsustainable rate. Much of this consumption is focused in the developed world that is also best placed to develop technologies and attitudes to reduce the consumption rate. EPSRC are already contributing to new technologies and have many activities connected with sustainability and the environment including research on renewable energy, bio-fuels and material recycling.In brief, this proposal aims to work with nurseries and primary schools tointroduce children to issues related to sustainable development through the production of highly interactive resources for use indoors and out. The project will be based on the development of two main resources provisionally called The Organic Garden and Energy For Free . These will be developed for use in nurseries and primary schools. The emphasis is therefore on highly interactive resources that fulfil the requirements of the National Curriculum while fulfilling a role of EPSRC by encouraging the awareness and enthusiasm of children for engineering and science. As they will be used in schools they should ideally be relatively low cost to operate. These two resources will be able to operate individually but will ideally be used together as described below as Using The Wind And Sun To Make The Garden Grow

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