We are delighted to announce the winners of our Design Your Ideal Outdoor Classroom Competition. To celebrate the launch of our resource, Outdoor Learning in the School Setting, we asked schools to design their ideal outdoor space for learning with the winning school awarded the installation of a Choill Bheag on their grounds. The past [...]
Thank-you to all the people who took part in our water conservation photo competition with Irish Water this year. We got many fantastic entries with really great ideas and actions for water conservation. We’d like to say a big well done to the students and families for all their great water conservation work happening [...]
We have had an amazing amount of entries to our poster and video competition this year! We had over 1,400 entries for the poster competition. We have just gone through the judging process and the winners are being contacted now. We will be officially announcing the winners after an online award ceremony in June. [...]
Welcome to Biodiversity Week 2021! We have an action-packed programme for the week ahead, with lots of engaging activities, competitions and online events. Why not join us for a day or two or all five! The overall aim of the week is to help you to discover: How many species can you find at [...]
As the summer months approach we are hoping to get families thinking more about water conservation so we have an exciting water conservation photo competition for families for a week in May. The idea is that students take water conservation activities at home and the parents of the students take a photo of it and [...]
The Environmental Education Unit (EEU) of An Taisce is currently inviting applications for two positions within the Green-Schools Programme: Green-Schools Administration Assistant Global Citizenship Education Officer The EEU is the national operator of a number of highly successful environmental education and management programmes such as Green-Schools, Blue Flag, National Spring Clean, Clean Coasts and Green [...]
To celebrate the launch of our latest resource, Outdoor Learning in the School Setting, we are pleased to bring you a competition to win the installation of a Choill Bheag in your school. The past year has taught us the importance of fresh air and the outdoors in all aspects of our lives and [...]
“In a year in which there has been a newfound appreciation for the simple pleasures in life, it is perhaps no coincidence that the winners of the 2021 Irish Food Writers’ Guild (IFWG) Food Awards reflect the basic foundations of Irish food,” said IFWG Chair, Kristin Jensen, who announced this year’s winners today. Now [...]
The Environmental Education Unit (EEU) of An Taisce is currently inviting applications for the position of Travel Officer in the following locations: Role 1: Galway City & County Role 2: Limerick & Clare Role 3: Roscommon/Leitrim/Longford The period of employment will run for eighteen months. The Green-Schools Travel programme operates on a national basis and [...]
We are happy to announce a launch of our new resource for Secondary Schools: the Ethics of Climate Change Toolkit. This toolkit aims to discuss moral problems related to climate change using critical, collaborative and creative thinking. (Click image on right to access the new resource) The resource links to our Travel theme and [...]
