It cannot start soon enough

The goal of our society must be to anchor sustainable thinking and behaviour early in a person's life. Then it becomes second nature and not something that an adult must "learn". The current attempts to include ethical teaching across the board in the school plan are late, but are a first important step.

EVVA has been cooperating with associations and schools for many years in order to teach children and young people about sustainable projects in a practical way, e.g.:

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  Initiative schülerInnen.gestalten.wandel
  (www.schuelergestaltenwandel.at), which brings sustainability to school classes. It involves pupils as equal partners in the discussion with companies and the public and coordinates the exchange of ideas. EVVA Wien has been a partner of schülerInnen.gestalten.wandel since 2014 and has invited school classes for company tours and CSR dialogues every year since then (see main photo). For many young people, the often vague term "sustainability" thus takes on life and meaning
   
• Job shadowing
  Students accompany the management for a few hours and experience what the professional world feels like in real life – for example by participating in staff events, talking about the challenges of a CEO or taking exclusive tours of the company.
   

Selection of further events of the last years

• EVVA welcomed children to the Meidlinger Ferienspiel in Vienna every year until the reporting period, which offers age-appropriate and entertaining tours of the company. Unfortunately, this event could not be held during the pandemic
   
• EVVA was a course partner of the "Environmental and Sustainability Management" master's course at Krems University of Applied Sciences

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  EVVA Family Days 2019 in Krefeld and Leipzig as well as EVVA Family Day 2017 in Vienna (honoured with the WEKA Industrie Medien Event Award): In the participation stations, the children and guests of the employees were able to learn about the topic of sustainability and the SDGs of the UN in a vivid way (e.g. via the SDG video especially for children, via guided tours of the Clean Production machines or by a DIY assembly of a simple cylinder).