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SUSTAINABLE ACTIONS
1 Background
In the framework of the Championship Grand Slam PWA Windsurfing Tenerife 2025, Gaia Consultants Island, company demonstrable experience in the design and implementation of activities to raise awareness of environmental, proposes a series of actions with educational and play in the rack of the event. These activities are aimed at promoting the values related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS), the local biodiversity, circular economy, sustainable mobility and the protection of the coast.
The choice of the Medano as a space of intervention responds to its high ecological value and its relevance as a core of tourism and sports. Through these proposals, seeks to integrate environmental education into an international event, bringing the audience to the key concepts of sustainability in an entertaining way, participatory and meaningful.
2 Methodology
The methodology applied is based on the environmental education, participatory, using teaching strategies that are tailored to different age ranges and the public. The activities were designed with a focus on experiential and playful, encouraging interaction, active learning, and critical reflection through:
- Interactive games and physical activities (such as the roulette of the SDGS or the Twister bin).
- Techniques of visual and sensory (cards illustrated graphics of CO₂, maps of species).
- Educational technology through the use of a totem digital dynamic type quiz.
- Gamification: passport with stamps to encourage the participation in several tests.
- Continuous assessment using indicators such as number of participants, level of participation and improvement in the results of the dynamics.
Each activity was designed with specific pedagogical goals, and visual material, and physical which facilitate understanding of key concepts such as biodiversity, circular economy, sustainable mobility, climate action and protection of the coastal environment.
3 Description
3.1 Schedule of activities
| 02/08/2025 | 03/08/2025 | 07/08/2025 | 08/08/2025 | 09/08/2025 |
| SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS | BIODIVERSITY MÉDANO | MEDANO CIRCULAR | SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY | MEDANO SUSTAINABLE WATERFRONT |
3.2 Activities
Activity every day:
- A slate or a mailbox where all the participants to write down the actions that can be compromised.
- A QR with a survey on the Medano (answering questions of the array)
3.2.1 ODS
| Activity title: Roulette of the SDGS |
| Objective: to Promote the knowledge and reflection on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS) 6, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14 ,15 |
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Description: Before you start wondering if you know that they are the SDGS and if you could name a few. They are made to point out those more related to the environment. After it shows a wheel with 7 ODS more related to this sector. It has been spinning a roulette with the different ODS. When you land on one of the SDGS have to beat tests or answer questions related to the SDGS in question.
Examples of questions and tests: 6 - clean Water and sanitation QUESTIONS:
Challenges: – Draw the water cycle
7 - Energy affordable and clean energy
Challenge: Juego de relacionar la fuente de energía con la forma de transformarla (ejemplo: una imagen del sol y relacionarla con placas solares) podría ser un juego tipo memory. (hacer un horno solar con una caja y llevarlo para mostrarlo: https://share.google/cUgv0jk8YzdRgk4ce)
11 - sustainable Cities and communities
Challenge: Redesign the Medano to be more sustainable.
12 Production and responsible consumption
Challenge: sort different images in the waste
13 climate Action
Challenge: Points on a post-it note action that you can do for YOUR to improve and engánchala in the look of actions (we will have a mural of all the days in the rack where you will be engaging proposals that make people in 10 days) Commit to fulfilling it
14 underwater Life
or What can you do to take care of the ocean from your community?
15 Life of terrestrial ecosystems
Challenge Identify species in danger of extinction in the Canary islands: it shows the same image with different species and have to identify them and to say which are in danger of extinction. It could be done by identifying invasive species.
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Materials: – Roulette of the SDGS – Cards with the questions – Drawing Material – Image of energy and energy sources – Images of waste – Image with species of the canary islands and invasive species |
3.2.2 BIODIVERSITY MÉDANO
| Activity title: Letters of Biodiversity Médano |
| Objective: Create your team of biodiversity |
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Description: ACTIVITY 1: Set of cards (style Pokémon of a species that is in the Dunes and in the Poster with all of the species. Each letter with the description of the species: common name, scientific, type, rarity, attack, points of resistance. Battle cards: each player has 3 cards in each round players throw a letter on the table and look which has more value. Earns a point the player to use the card with more value.
ACTIVITY 2: Version of the virus. Letters of species with their ecological functions (organs). Letters of threat (a virus) Letters of positive Action (medications) Letters of actions (such as changing the letter to one, spread your threats...treatments) 68 letters. 5 of each species. 16 threats. 16 of medicine, 10 treatments. If any of the species is classified as endangered only need a letter of threat to remove it, but it just needs a letter of positive action to make it immune.
ACTIVITY 4: Nursery. Paint and color the species of the medano and relate it to their habitat.
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Materials: – Photos of fragdemar – Letters – Drawings to paint |
3.2.3 MEDANO CIRCULAR
| Activity title: Roulette of waste |
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Description: Roulette with the colors of the different containers (green, yellow, blue, brown and grey) more oil (orange), blue (linen). The player spins the wheel and has to respond if a claim in accordance with the waste going in that color is true or false. |
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Materials: – Roulette – Cards |
| Twister containers | ||
| Duration | To determine the responsible person | |
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Powerpoint presentation for totem digital with the explanation of the activity.
Activity in digital display Canvas twister |
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| Description |
This activity is a recreational component, since it is based on the transposition of the well-known game twister to place hands and feet on a mat in accordance with the color that comes out in a roulette. Arrange it with a random order of tabs that indicate that limb there's that pose on the carpet, to what you must choose the color of the container for separate collection according to the illustration of a type of waste that appears on the screen. |
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| Development |
The people who participate cater to the option that appears on the screen, totem, digital And choose the color of the wallpaper and put the tip has been drawn in the tab |
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| Evaluation |
No. of participants Assessment of participation Improvement in the results of the game |
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3.2.4 SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY
| Title of the Activity: Calculation of Pollution |
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Objective: First activity:
Second activity:
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Description:
FIRST ACTIVITY: Part 1: sort different types of transportation according to pollute Part 2: calculate CO2 has issued your trip to el Médano.
Cards with each type of transport which are sorted according to how much they pollute. (could be done by computers, who orders faster correctly) After you have watched the emissions exact of each type of transport, so that each one can calculate how much issued its journey to the Dunes. The winner is the less polluted. Finally, it points out the CO₂ in the graph general. At the end of the day we will have a graph with the CO₂ total issued by people who come on the shelf.
SECOND ACTIVITY: Pump: Two computers, or one-on-one. The facilitator will ask questions that your answers are numeric data. The participant has to go by responding to numbers and the facilitator tells you whether major or minor. The goal is to guess the answer quickly to be able to pass the bomb on the other team. Lost the team with the exploits of the pump.
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Materials: – Cards with images of transport – Cards with transport type and consumption – Chart to record the CO2 emitted by all the people – Questions of data on mobility in Tenerife – Pump |
3.2.5 MEDANO SUSTAINABLE WATERFRONT
| Title of the Activity: Passport sustainable |
| Objective: to raise Awareness about the protection of the coastline and the coastal ecosystems |
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Description: Each participant will have a passport with the activities that must be performed in el Médano. Will consist of 5 tests that were carried out around the area. Once each activity in the rack shall be a seal (STICKER) to the completed activity. The goal is to have all the stamped passport.
Test 1: Gather residues: Pick up 5 residues that are located on the floor of the midlands. Classify the waste in the containers
Test 2: Using recycled materials to make a work of art (or a wallet with a brick of milk)
Test 3: Search for hidden pictures of species (hidden by part of the team near the shelf). Classified Endangered, endemic and Invasive.
Test 4: the Network of life in the tidal rasa: is the ecological relationships between the different species that we found in the tidal rasa and the maritime area of the medano.
Test 5: Write on a post it a action to reduce your carbon footprint and commit to it. |
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Materials: – Passports printed – Seals – Containers – Images of species in el Medano – Gloves – Table to classify the species in categories – Post-it |
4 Conclusion
The proposed activities to the shelf of the PWA Tenerife 2025-consolidated an offer educational environmental innovative and accessible, in line with the principles of sustainable development. Through dynamic, inclusive, fun and educational, it seeks to sensitize the local population and visitors about the importance of conserving the ecosystems of the Medano, adopt responsible practices of consumption and mobility, and engage with individual actions add up to a collective impact positive. This approach reinforces the role of the event as a platform not only sports, but also formative and transformative in favor of the environment.
Environment
Activities will be aimed at the conservation and knowledge of our oceans, such as information about the marine ecosystem of the Canary islands, workshops, recycling with waste-cleaning the beach, talk of artisanal fisheries, and workshops of virtual reality where you can enjoy a view of our seabed. These workshops will be conducted by our partner Flavors of North Canary by Lis Peña and Action Coastal.
Selective Collection
Thanks to the collaboration of the municipality of Granadilla de Abona and Sermugran will be installed several points of selective waste collection for the entire event.
Sustainability Plan
Here you can read the sustainability plan full.
PLAN FOR SUSTAINABILITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY 2025
7.1 Measures of reduction of the environmental impact
The GRAND SLAM PWA WORLD CUP TENERIFE EL MEDANO 2025 is committed to minimizing its environmental impact through a Sustainability Plan, which includes a Plan of Communication and Environmental Awareness led to attendees, spectators and the media.
This plan seeks to generate awareness about the importance of sustainability in sporting events, and promoting responsible practices before, during and after the event.
Is firmly committed to sustainability and respect for the environment, by aligning your organization with the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN and Agenda Canaria 2023. In this context, it has developed a Plan of Environmental Sustainability, by integrating the concrete measures in six key areas: mobility, energy, water, shopping, infrastructure and waste management.
The mounting of the event will be located in the pedestrian zone of playa de El Cabezo, so there will be no heavy assembly or interference in the natural environment of The Head, reducing the environmental impact. Promote the use of infrastructure modular and reusable in the staging of the event. We will work with suppliers that provide structures removable and easy to re-use for future event. Since it is a restricted area for the practice of sports, where it is carried by performing the event the last years, it has acquired services that facilitate the implementation of the test.
7.2 Plan of waste management and recycling
It will prioritize the hiring of local suppliers for the acquisition of supplies and services to the event. You will implement a policy of sustainable purchases that favor local businesses, reducing the carbon footprint of transport and supporting the regional economy. Will be agreements and records with local suppliers.
It will be implemented a system of selective collection of waste in the event, with the installation of containers differentiated to facilitate recycling in collaboration with the City. You will develop an awareness campaign for the attendees and staff, promoting the correct separation of waste. Also will work with waste management companies to ensure their proper treatment.
To encourage the use of public transport, you will implement a communication strategy and awareness, which will include the promotion in social networks, cooperation with the authorities of transport and diffusion of routes and schedules to facilitate access to the championship. In addition, there will be a survey of digital to know the impact of the initiative.
To maximize the use of natural light in the staging of the event, we will plan the installation by reducing the use of artificial lighting. To do this, we will organize the distribution of the spaces and the activities in the schedule with the highest incidence of natural light. In addition, there will be a campaign to raise awareness about the importance of natural light in the energy efficiency through the social networks.
To encourage the responsible consumption of water, measures are implemented to reduce their consumption at the event, including the installation of saving devices in faucets and toilets, the awareness of the audience about the responsible use of water and the use of recycled water when possible.
Therefore, the key actions within this sustainability plan are the following:
- Promoting sustainable transport = will encourage the use of public transport, bicycle or carpooling to attend the event. It will enable a section on the website with information on routes and schedules.
- Promotion of the Days of Sustainable = to be carried out campaigns on social networks to raise awareness about the responsible use of water, reduction of waste and the protection of the marine ecosystem.
- Reducing the use of plastics = will be implemented a policy of reduction of plastic single-use, promoting the use of reusable bottles and points of hydration in the event.
- Efficient management of waste = will be installed to recycling points correctly marked in the whole area of the event and strengthen the communication on waste separation through posters and social networks.
- Disclosure on the web and biodiver sity newsletter = there will be a section exclusively on the web with educational content about sustainability in sporting events, good environmental practices and commitments of the event with the Agenda Canaria 2030 and the SDGS.
7.3 Strategy of sustainable mobility and accessibility Commitment to sustainability and the environment
- ODS 13 (Climate Action) and ODS 14 (marine Life): you will implement a waste management system in collaboration with the city, promoting the separation and recycling of the materials used at the event. In addition, we will carry out awareness-raising campaigns on the importance of the protection of the marine environment.
- ODS 12 (Production and Responsible consumption): it will prioritize the use of infrastructure temporary reusable, with at least 60% of the structures designed for re-use in future editions. Also ensure that the 50% of the materials used are recycled or recyclable, minimizing the environmental impact.
Concrete actions to minimize the environmental footprint of the event.
- Sustainable mobility: we encourage the use of public transport and collective, providing information on routes and schedules through campaigns on social networks. In addition, we will conduct a survey to evaluate the impact of this initiative.
- Efficient use of energy: reducing the power consumption, making the most of the natural light during the assembly and development of the event, decreasing by at least 30% the use of artificial lighting.
- Responsible water management: install-saving devices in faucets and toilets, looking for a 20% reduction in the consumption of drinking water in comparison with previous editions.
- Support local suppliers and responsible purchasing: at least 70% of the suppliers will be local, to promote the circular economy and reducing the carbon footprint associated with the transport of goods and services.
Contribution to the Agenda Canaria 2030.
The event supports the model of sustainable tourism that promotes the Agenda Canaria 2030, integrating practices that promote:
A balanced economic developmentprioritizing the hiring of local businesses and the support to providers of the island.
An event model environmentally responsible, minimizing waste, reducing the consumption of resources and promoting environmental awareness among attendees and participants.
A positive social impact, fostering inclusion and diversity in access to water sports and activities parallel to the event.
Thanks to the implementation of the Plan of Environmental Sustainability, the event not only aligns with the SDGS and the Agenda Canaria 2023, but it also sets a precedent in the organization of sporting events sustainable in Granadilla de Abona.
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