Last updated: October 2021
The educational project of a roof-top garden was integrated in the public primary school “Ferran Sunyer”, in the neighborhood of Sant Antoni, Barcelona. The project has motivated pupils to enter the world of urban horticulture, creating synergies with other lectures and has been well received by teachers and parents. This initiative aims to recover nature-appreciation values in children through the maintenance of a rooftop garden and orchard (Ref. 1). The rooftop school orchard has been featured in many videos in international media (Ref. 5).
Roof-top garden (School Ferran Sunyer)
https://agora.xtec.cat/escferransunyer/general/lhort-segueix-creixent/
Overview
Nature-based solution
- Nature on buildings (external)
- Green roofs
- Grey infrastructure featuring greens
- Alley or street trees and other street vegetation
- Community gardens and allotments
- Community gardens
Key challenges
- Green space, habitats and biodiversity (SDG 15)
- Green space creation and/or management
- Regeneration, land-use and urban development
- Regulation of built environment
- Promote natural styles of landscape design for urban development
- Social justice, cohesion and equity (SDG 10)
- Environmental education
- Health and well-being (SDG 3)
- Enabling opportunities for physical activity
- Creation of opportunities for recreation
- Sustainable consumption and production (SDG 12)
- Sustainable production
Focus
Creation of new green areas, Knowledge creation and awareness raising
Project objectives
This educational proposal seeks to recover among children values that are important and are being lost. As for example, the value of food, contact with nature, caring for the environment and animals, ecology, recycling of materials and above all, work together to care for and collect their own organic vegetables from the urban garden of the school (ref 1).
- Naturalise green areas, increase the amount of native flora and foster biodiversity in the city’s tree pits, in order to create natural habitats that will help to combat pests and infestations using biological means (Ref. 2)
Implementation activities
- Create a rooftop garden (Ref 1)
- Helping to plant the city's tree pits (Ref. 2)
- The groups continue to increase and do different jobs in the garden. They also take advantage of this topic to work on other content: they make cards of the different plants, write their characteristics, make explanatory posters, etc. (Ref. 3)
Main beneficiaries
- Public sector institution (e.g. school or hospital)
- Citizens or community groups
- Young people and children
Governance
Management set-up
- Led by non-government actors
Type of initiating organisation
- Public sector institution
- Private sector/corporate actor/company
Participatory approaches/ community involvement
- Dissemination of information and education
- Joint implementation (e.g. tree planting)
- Citizen monitoring and review
Details on the roles of the organisations involved in the project
The project was handled by the private company Growinpallet in collaboration with the Ferran Sunyer Primary School (ref 1).
Project implemented in response to ...
... an EU policy or strategy?
Yes
(Agenda 21 (Ref. 4))
... a national policy or strategy?
Unknown
... a local policy or strategy?
Unknown
Financing
Total cost
Unknown
Source(s) of funding
- Unknown
Type of funding
- Unknown
Non-financial contribution
Type of non-financial contribution
- Provision of labour
- Provision of expertise
- Exchange of services
Who provided the non-financial contribution?
- Citizens (e.g. volunteering)
- Other
Impacts and Monitoring
Environmental impacts
- Green space and habitat
- Increased green space area
- Reduced biodiversity loss
- Increased spread of native/heirloom/open-pollinated seed
- Other
Economic impacts
- Increase in agricultural production (for profit or not)
Socio-cultural impacts
- Social justice and cohesion
- Fair distribution of social, environmental and economic benefits of the NBS project
- Improved access to urban green space
- Increased visibility and opportunity for marginalised groups or indigenous peoples
- Increased opportunities for social interaction
- Increased access to healthy/affordable food
- Increased sustainability of agriculture practices
- Health and wellbeing
- Improved physical health
- Gain in activities for recreation and exercise
- Cultural heritage and sense of place
- Improvement in people’s connection to nature
- Increased appreciation for natural spaces
- Education
- Increased support for education and scientific research
- Increased knowledge of locals about local nature
- Increased awareness of NBS and their benefits
Type of reported impacts
Expected impacts, Achieved impacts
Presence of formal monitoring system
Unknown
Presence of indicators used in reporting
No evidence in public records
Presence of monitoring/ evaluation reports
No evidence in public records
Availability of a web-based monitoring tool
No evidence in public records
References
1. Grow In Pallet (2016). "Escuela Ferran Sunyer". Available at: Source link (Accessed: July 18, 2020)
2. Barcelona for climate (2018). Organisations and schools from the Eixample, Sant Martí and Ciutat Vella take part in planting tree pits. Available at: Source link (Accessed: July 18, 2020)
3. Escola Ferran Sunyer (2016). "L’hort segueix creixent". Available at: Source link (Accessed: July 18, 2020)
4. AMPA Ferran Sunyer (2006). "L’Hort de l’escola". Available at: Source link (Accessed: July 18, 2020)
5. Eco India (2019). Eco India - The Environment Magazine - Interview. Available at: Source link (Accessed: July 18, 2020)
2. Barcelona for climate (2018). Organisations and schools from the Eixample, Sant Martí and Ciutat Vella take part in planting tree pits. Available at: Source link (Accessed: July 18, 2020)
3. Escola Ferran Sunyer (2016). "L’hort segueix creixent". Available at: Source link (Accessed: July 18, 2020)
4. AMPA Ferran Sunyer (2006). "L’Hort de l’escola". Available at: Source link (Accessed: July 18, 2020)
5. Eco India (2019). Eco India - The Environment Magazine - Interview. Available at: Source link (Accessed: July 18, 2020)
Roof-top garden (School Ferran Sunyer)
https://agora.xtec.cat/escferransunyer/general/lhort-segueix-creixent/
Roof-top garden (School Ferran Sunyer)
https://agora.xtec.cat/escferransunyer/general/lhort-segueix-creixent/
Roof-top garden (School Ferran Sunyer)
https://agora.xtec.cat/escferransunyer/general/lhort-segueix-creixent/
Roof-top garden (School Ferran Sunyer)
http://eiferransunyer.blogspot.com/2019/03/
Roof-top garden (School Ferran Sunyer)
http://eiferransunyer.blogspot.com/2019/03/