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home > Media services > Press releases > Futurenergia School Programme 2007-2008: Awards Ceremony Futurenergia School Programme 2007-2008: Awards Ceremony German MEP Holger Krahmer brought the Europe-wide FuturEnergia school consisted of a set of online activities and competitions that focused on three main areas: energy efficiency, climate protection and resource efficiency. The jury gave awards to 17 teams of students who had taken part in three competitions: Profile the FuturEnergia Hero, The Adventures of the FuturEnergia Hero and Wanna be a Hero. The winners represented schools from ten countries: France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia and the United Kingdom. The winners of the first two competitions, eleven teams of junior students, got their prizes by post. The prizes consisted of FuturEnergia trophies and comic books that integrated the winning entries. The winners of the "Wanna be a Hero" competition and their coordinating teachers were invited to Brussels to attend the awards ceremony that took place at the European Commission, in Brussels, on 17 September 2008. In addition to the staff of PlasticsEurope and European Schoolnet, a number of key MEPs and European Commission officials attended the ceremony. Referring to the future of education in Europe and challenges that the EU Member States face nowadays, Mr. Macdonald pointed out: Europe will be able to offer its young people the best conditions at the start of their lives, so that they can grow up to take a full part in the society of the future, to flourish in the challenges that the next decades will bring. When handing over the awards, MEP Krahmer said: "I am impressed with the creativity European students showed when asked to solve energy challenges. If everyone were this alert to energy issues, fewer resources would be wasted on energy". Marc Durando, the European Schoolnet Executive Director, mentioned in his speech the quality of the competition entries, by saying: "The school programme activities are impressive, but more impressive - and certainly more important - are the individual contributions of each of the participants". About FuturEnergia Since 2006, the Energy is our Future school programme has made a substantial contribution to enhancing and supporting energy education across the curriculum in schools throughout Europe. The programme goal is to raise awareness of how changes in energy consumption behaviour can contribute to protect the climate and how advanced materials such as plastics can help save energy and world's resources. The "Energy is our Future" project ( www.futurenergia.org) is being run by European Schoolnet on behalf of PlasticsEurope. Contact For any questions about the "Energy is our Future" school programme and its activities send an email to Petru Dumitru at: futurenergia at eun.org For more information about PlasticsEurope, please contact Hanane Taidi at the following email address: hanane.taidi at plasticseurope.org or visit: www.plasticseurope.org About European Schoolnet European Schoolnet (www.eun.org) is a unique not-for-profit consortium of 31 ministries of education in Europe created in 1997. EUN provides major European education portals for teaching, learning and collaboration and leads the way in bringing about change in schooling through the use of new technology.
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