Protecção Ambiental e Práticas Quotidianas Individuais e Colectivas

Abstract

In this paper, referring to the 3E programmes (solid urban waste), we present the general characteristics of HEPar (Health/ Environment/ Phyto pharmaceuticals-agricultural waste) and REE (renewable energy and environment) programmes which attempt to stimulate individual and collective day-to-day practices of environmental protection. These programmes of diversified social intervention are consubstantiated in actions protagonised by a group of students, designated as SOCPAR (Students of Organic Chemistry in Pharmacy: Action/ Reaction) and are inter-related with the subject of Organic Chemistry in the degree course in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Coimbra. The methodologies which have been adopted in order to encourage the development of scientific competences in the SOCPAR sudents, the community interventions within the programmes developed by the group and the introduction of this type of teaching and learning practice, in which formal and non-formal contexts are allied, aims at contributing towards the boosting of the active construction of knowledge, allowing for a widenig and amplifification of competences, giving the incentives necessary to explore other ways of development and of future professional frameworks.