The Mediterranean on the path to climate neutrality with the European project CO2 PACMAN
At Elba with schools to understand and envision a fully Carbon Neutral future
Portoferraio, March 3, 2025 – After the February sessions, the European project CO2 PACMAN (COoperation and CO-designing PArtnership for CliMAte Neutrality) returns to the Island of Elba to meet the students from the Raffaello Foresi High School, completing the activities of the third Rooting Lab under the Interreg Euro-Med project with the long-awaited Youth Think Tank!
This meeting with schools is a crucial step in fostering a shared ecological culture among younger generations, an essential foundation for achieving sustainability goals set at the European level, to which CO2 PACMAN actively contributes. “Our goal is to enable the decarbonization of Mediterranean islands through concrete projects and tools that facilitate the energy transition,” explained Simone Bastianoni, Professor at the University of Siena and coordinator of the CO2 PACMAN project. Guided by students from the Universities of Siena and Florence, the Foresi High School students will engage in interactive workshops using a peer-to-peer learning approach, where games serve as a tool to spark knowledge transfer and hands-on application. In the spirit of the Rooting Lab, “putting down roots” in this context means becoming familiar with the concept of carbon footprint and acquiring essential tools to imagine an island with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions, starting with listening and cooperation. The workshop, scheduled for the morning of March 11 in Portoferraio at the two high school campuses, is reserved for students only. It marks the beginning of an active engagement process that schools are invited to continue in preparation for the project’s second event on the island, set for 2026: “The Island I Would Like”. This event will bring to life concrete decarbonization proposals shaped through the direct involvement of the local community.
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Location and Schedule:
March 11 – ISIS – Istituto Statale di Istruzione Superiore “Raffaello Foresi”, Portoferraio (reserved for schools).
