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There are already schools and other educational centres that have implemented the 50/50 or similar approaches. Germany is the pioneer in this field with many schools involved in saving energy. Here you can find some links of best practices that can inspire you to follow the same path.
05/04/2011
European projects to save energy at school
There are many european projects that encourage energy saving at school. Here you can have some of them that can be linked with the Euronet 50/50 project activities.
The overall goal of the FLICK THE SWITCH project, which is being supported by the Read more
01/04/2011
U4 Energy: Competition and resources on energy for european schools
U4 Energy is a competition launched by the European Commission on september 2010 for primary and secondary schools around Europe that want to participate explaining their activities to save energy. The schools can take part in the competition until...
17/03/2011
Dusseldorf (Germany)
Fifty/fifty has been successfully used in many German cities since the 1990’s. Most participating schools have been able to reduce their energy costs by up to 15%.
50:50 Düsseldorf is very successful. In the period from 1997 to 2008, participating...
07/12/2009
Hamburg (Germany)
The city of Hamburg was pioneer implementing the 50/50 scheme in 1994. Nowadays all the schools in Hamburg (around 470 in total) are involved in the fifty/fifty project.
Information in english at the DISPLAY project webpage
Information in german...
07/12/2009
Berlin (Germany)
Since the school year 1996/1997 Berlin has widely implemented the 50/50 project in the schools of the city (around 220 schools are involved).
You can know more looking at the presentation about the fifty/fifty in Berlin.
For more information you can...
26/11/2009
Catalonia (Spain)
The Highschool Intermunicipal de St. Sadurní d'Anoia was pioneer in Catalonia (Spain) implementing the 50/50 concept during the school year 2006-2007. With this initiative they have undertaken many energy saving actions at school mainly with Read more