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Zinkers: bringing sustainability and the SDGs to the classroom

Our Zinkers educational programs offer teachers and students a variety of free interactive resources to explore the challenges of the ecological transition, with content on sustainability, energy and the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals).

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Adapted to primary, secondary and VT curricular

  • Teachers can use contents and materials adapted to the Spanish education system's primary, secondary and vocational training curricula.

Flexible and modular

  • The programs are adaptable to each teacher's classroom planning, making it easy for them to bring the topics of energy, climate change, air quality, sustainable mobility, the circular economy and the Sustainable Development Goals Transversal Module (SDGs) to all students in an innovative way.

Available in different languages and in Easy Read

  • All programs are available in Spanish, Catalan, Basque, Galician, Valencian and English. Contents for primary and secondary are also adapted in Easy Read format.

Educational innovation

  • Designed based on active methodologies such as project-based learning, gamification, the flipped classroom, or design thinking.

Zinkers Awards

  • In addition, schools using these educational programs will be able to win one of the Zinkers Awards at the end of the year, with an prize of up to €15,000.

Zinkers by the Numbers

 

 

More than 9.000

schools in Spain and Portugal

More than 15.000

teachers in the program

More than 370.000

students 


Zinkers educational programs

Zinkers Primary

Based on the time travel adventures that students will share with the content's main characters, Jaime and Laura, this program offers more than 100 separate materials that teachers can organize according to their learning itineraries and adapt to their classes and didactic objectives.

Zinkers Secondary

Adapted to secondary school curricula, this Zinkers program is structured in seven chapters with different materials to work flexibly, based on a new network where seven young people from different parts of the world present the topics that they are researching.

Zinkers VT

The new Zinkers VT program was born in response to the new Spanish law on the organization and integration of vocational training, covering the curricular contents of the sustainability Transversal Module in the productive sectors for all VT degrees.


Adapted to Easy Read!

 

Primary and secondary school content is also available in Easy Read, a methodology to guarantee accessibility for all students.


Zinkers Awards

Every year, the Repsol Foundation announces each the Zinkers Awards, which recognize the best sustainability projects applied in the classroom and which offer prizes of up to €15,000 to develop innovation initiatives at the school. 

The awards are divided into three categories:  primary, secondary and vocational training. To participate, all schools have to do is be registered with the Zinkers program and apply the contents in the classroom. 

 

Fotografía de Francisca Sánchez Profesora en el CEIP Conde Campillo, Cehegín (Murcia)

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Francisca Sánchez

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