RENOWIKI Slovakia

World Green Building Week started in 2009 to create a more connected, more interactive, more public conversation around the role buildings play in creating our sustainable future. Slovakia Green Building Council and Green Building Councils all over the world celebrate the week with awareness raising and engagement events connected by a theme and shared resources.

The free energy counselling service ‘Living with Energy’ (ŽIŤ ENERGIOU) includes three counselling centres available to the general public, representatives of public administration, local government and entrepreneurs. Within the frame of this project, its organizer SIEA organizes conferences and seminars, as well as excursions with lectures for students and information- competitive programs for pupils. SIEA was established by the Ministry of Economy of the Slovak Republic as a professional state subsidy organization which makes an important contribution in the achievement of governmental energy policy objectives, principally by promoting energy efficiency, new energy technologies and renewables.

Green School’s educational program is designed for nursery, primary and secondary schools that want to change themselves and their surroundings. Students, teachers and parents are addressing the real needs of schools and their surroundings, thus helping achieve positive change. Schools can choose from 6 main themes to work on, one of which is Energy (Energy Efficiency). The Green School program has existed in Slovakia since 2004. In the school year 2014/2015 it involves  291 schools.