Sustainable mobility is an important part of sustainable development, aiming to ensure equal accessibility and environmentally friendly transportation. This contributes to reducing motor traffic, pollution, and energy consumption. In Slovenian schools and kindergartens, sustainable mobility projects are implemented annually under the auspices of the National Education Institute of the Republic of Slovenia. These projects address topics such as traffic safety and the use of sustainable modes of transport. They also reflect certain characteristics of open science schooling, which is based on the active involvement of students in solving problems from their local environment, supported by school leadership, families, and local communities. Students address issues in an interdisciplinary context, which requires cross-curricular integration. Sustainable mobility is introduced to students throughout their entire school education, beginning in the first grade.
The aim of the research was to examine how sustainable mobility projects are organized in primary schools, how students are involved, and how schools cooperate with external institutions. The results show that schools more often implement shorter, one-off projects at the upper primary level, involving smaller groups of teachers and
students. Students are frequently included only in the implementation phase, which means their participation is not genuine but rather a formal inclusion without significant
influence on the process. Teachers emphasize the importance of involving students already during the planning phase. They identify time and financial constraints, as well
as the need for curriculum changes, as key obstacles. Approximately 40% of the projects involve collaboration with external institutions, most commonly with students’
families, the police, and local organizations.
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