This new GSE App - a company of the Ministry of Economy which in Italy promotes sustainable development through incentives for renewable sources and energy efficiency - is part of the training tools to support the energy education program "GSE meets the Schools", with which the company since 2011 it has trained more than 26 thousand students throughout Italy (more than 3 thousand in the current school year alone 21/22), offering modules designed ad hoc and built on the basis of age, to guide the new generations towards a conscious use of energy and spreading the culture of sustainability and energy efficiency.
"The Footprint of the Fuoriclasse" aims to calculate a real "ecological footprint", that is how many resources produced by the Earth are consumed by our daily behaviors and how to raise awareness about environmental behaviors. The calculations are simplified for educational purposes, because the primary objective is to evaluate how everything we do affects the environment around us; in this way, children can easily evaluate their own footprint using mobile phones, tablets or PCs and monitor their actions and good practices.
The WebApp in fact incorporates a carbon footprint estimation algorithm that uses environmental and context data, such as the number of light bulbs in the house, the distance from home to school, and data related to behavior, for example turn off the tap while brushing your teeth. With the help of this program, attention to consumption and the environment thus becomes part of everyday life in an educational but also playful way, favoring the maintenance of an aware and sustainable behavior towards the Planet. br>
To play with the app and watch an explanatory video just navigate to the link https://fuoriclasse.gse.it/home. Here is the dedicated page on the GSE website.