2020 Student Engagement Finalist: Belarusian State Pedagogical University (BSPU) - Belarus

Green Office Belarusian State Pedagogical University (BSPU) - Green Volunteer School: 17 SDGs 

The Green Office BSPU staff will conduct a number of master classes on each of the 17 SDGs. In cooperation with students of BSPU, classes on sustainable development will be designed and tested using effective pedagogical approaches and forms, such as business games, mini-conferences, intellectual games, discussion lessons, STEAM-classes, web-quests, design workshops, volunteer actions, open cinema shows, etc. The focus of work forms will be on youth. The Green Volunteer School (GVS) was the continuation of the successful project ‘17 days - 17 SDGs’, which was implemented among students in middle and senior classes in 2018-2019. GVS is aimed at preparing future teachers for the promotion of ideas and principles of sustainable development in their professional activities. As a result, a methodological and interactive guide will be created to promote the ideas and principles of sustainable development among young people. 

Top three learnings: 

1. Our organisation has successfully designed and implemented the economic game ‘Family Economy’, which clearly emphasises the problem of poverty 
2. We have designed interdisciplinary lesson ‘Water Philosophy’, which shows the problematic relationships in nature and society while using water 
3. We have designed the web-quest that allows each one of us to connect a large number of people around a single SD-problem