GreenGame: Pro-environmental behavior development for school-age children
▶Summary
Children’s pro-environmental attitude and behaviour need to be proactively addressed in order for them to become true change agents, adopting sustainable individual habits, preferences and lifesty...
▶Objectives
The aim of the project was to support children in engaging in pro–environmental behaviours and achieving an environmentally friendly way of living, by establishing an enhanced degree of motivation, willingness, autonomy, and commitment, and to assist teachers in stimulating pro-environmental behaviour among their students.
▶Activities
The project developed a psycho-education program on the development of pro-environmental behaviour based on mindfulness and awareness-raising interventions, materials, and activities, enhanced by advanced ICT technologies; and a pro-environmental behaviour serious game that included empowerment and motivation-enhancing interventions for habit formation and change, focusing on linking individual behaviour change with overall social benefit.
▶Impact
The project developed: a. psycho-education program on development of pro-environmental behaviour based on mindfulness and awareness raising interventions, material and activities, enhanced by advanced ICT technologies; b. a pro-environmental behaviour serious game which will include empowerment and motivation enhancing interventions for habit formation and change, focusing on linking individual behaviour change with overall social benefit; c. guidance and description material on the serious game both for teachers (companion) and children (handbook).