School Plans in the Province of Treviso Bratislava, 24 February 2010 Mentoring Meeting

The school system in Italy is subdivided in the following way: 1. Nursery schools: from 3 to 5 years old 2. Primary schools: from 6 to 10 years old 3. Middle schools (First level of secondary school): from 11 to 13 years old 4. High schools: (Second level of secondary school) from 14 to 18 years old

Number of schools (Public and private) in the Veneto Region, subdivided by province (school year /2008)

Mobility management for schools 1 National law issued by the Ministry of Environment on March 27, 1998 on ‘Sustainable mobility in urban areas’; in addition to establishing programs for protecting air quality and providing incentives for the development of car-sharing action, collective taxis and electric or methane-run vehicles, this Decree introduces the figure of the Mobility Manager, who is responsible for managing mobility for public and private companies/entities which have more than 300 employees per local unit and companies with an overall total of 800 employees.

Mobility management for schools 2 National law on 20 December 2000 provided economic resources for the implementation of Mobility Management to Municipalities and/or Public/Private companies, for projects related to the home-work trip plans, but also for Mobility Management in reference to industry areas, commercial centres, scholastic systems and health systems (as hospitals)

Mobility management for schools 3 Compilation of the School Plan A School Plan helps us understand where the students and teachers come from, how they go to school but also the misures that could be proposed in order to decrease the use of individual mobility (cars and motocicles), how we can improve public transport and alternative mobility. School plan requires a time monitoring.

Mobility management for schools 3 Identify the School mobility manager (person) Each school could nominate their own School mobility manager (reference person). He/she is responsible for mobility demand of students/teachers and he contacts the Municipal Administration or Public Transport Companies to resolve problems. He/she is also responsible for gathering and proposing initiatives for education students about sustainable mobility and for supporting forms of sustainable transportation (i.e. car- pooling, promotion use of bike or bus).

Our experince with PALLADIO a technical school located in Treviso

We presented Mobility Management tematic and how do a School Plan.

Students gave out a questionnaire to all of the school’s students.

Students carried out the final School Plan.

Students presented final results and their requests for improved school mobility in a public meeting.

Good points have characterized our experience: - Discussing with students what is a School Plan and working with them to create questions and possible solutions to improve sustainable mobility for school; - Discussing solutions with the students/teachers how reduce the use of car in daily home-school trips; - The students interviewed their student-colleagues (the activity served to increase their sense of responsibility).

Bad points have characterized our experience: - The school was not able to identify the School mobility manager, thus, we lacked a reference person for the following up the project. - The measures identified by the students to improve sustainable mobility were not implemented by the Municipality and the Province.

What we have learned – Good Practices Schools need to: - Identify own School mobility manager who can start up and monitor the School Plan - Involve teachers and students (in active partecipation) to elaborate questions and draw up the final draft of the School Plan.

What we have learned – Good Practices As Province we can: - Help schools to create questionnaires and carry out their analysis, drawing up the School Plan; - Develop training activities about mobility management for both teachers and students;

What we have learned – Good Practices As Province we can : - Promote the implementation of measures for cyclist mobility and public transport to the benefit of schools (i.e. supply schools with bike racks, guarantee bus stop safety etc.) - Presente similar experiences during next European Mobility Week, for increasing number of schools that want to realise their own School Plan

Our experience with the ‘Walking bus project’ for primary and middle schools

Our School Challenge promotes by PIMMS TRANSFER ’ is based on: - the number of participating children - the number of days available, - the number of kilometers covered - quality indicators (…..)

Quality indicators are: - the school has realised a school plan; - alliances and different subjects involved (local policy, municipalities, associations); - monitoring process,

What we’ve learned – Good practices 1) Promotion of alliances between schools and Municipalities, local police and associations; 2) Inclusion of the “Walking bus project” in the school curriculum in order to have a daily development and a number of teachers and children participating; 3) Involvement citizens and local shops to improve the urban security around the school paths; 4) Involvement the Heath Local Associations to promote “Walking bus project” inside schools as a measure to favour students’ movement and health.

Thanks for your attention Sustainable Mobility Office - Province of Treviso Luisa Memo Air Quality Office Paola Gallina Urban Planner