Goethe Institut's 'Oekoropa' competition Winners

The German Department is thrilled to announce that Frank Shrimpton, Jamie Perry, Peter Bellerby, and Matthew Todorov in Year 12 have been selected as just one of ten teams across Europe to win the Goethe Institut's 'Oekoropa' competition. 

The four year 12 students entered the competition by submitting a climate-neutral plan for a tour across Europe, planned for the summer of 2021, to stop at Berlin, Lisbon, and Ljubljana. As such, they had to specifically choose methods of transport that don't negatively impact the environment, and plan the time spent in each location carefully, as the trip should not exceed 3 weeks.

Furthermore, the year 12s had to design a public relations campaign that they would implement to share news and updates of their tour, e.g. on social media.  They submitted all of this plan entirely in German to the Goethe Insitut.

Now that their team has been chosen as one of the winning ten across Europe, the four year 12s are set to receive 5,000 Euros to either put towards funding their planned trip, or if they would rather not go ahead with travel due to the implications of Covid-19, they may invest this money in an environmentally friendly project relating to school or the local area. In addition, each of the boys along with Frau Probodziak, who had agreed to accompany them on their trip, will receive a folding bicycle as a prize.

There will be an online prize giving ceremony later in December that the four year 12 students will be attending. We will keep you updated with their plans for how to invest the prize money and whether or not their tour does go ahead. 

Congratulations to them all.