EXPERIENCE IN ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT COORDINATION OF UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL - UFRGS
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Abstract
The Coordination of Environmental Management of Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, "CGA”, has the task of managing all programs and projects that underpin the functioning of the Environmental Management System, and works with four main programs: Environmental Education, Environmental Aspects and Impacts, Environmental Licensing and Environmental Certification. To carry out their projects, the Coordination has the support of students from various courses. As part of the project, students are monitored and encouraged to enhance the management tools and improve the practices adopted and disseminated by the CGA to units and buildings that studing. The fellows work with just part of the CGA own tasks: to contribute to Environmental Education. In this regard, the student gains experience in the stock market environmental management practices and knowledge that can be applied to other institutions or companies, with the student, thus forming a more complete and being more suited to the needs of the labor market, contributing to the dissemination of environmental knowledge.
Keywords: CGA, environmental education, management tools, environmental management.