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Malmö’s new high school will focus on sustainable development
Works on the new school Citadellsgymnasium officially kicked off in the Swedish city of Malmö yesterday. It will be the first municipal school in Malmö which specialises in innovative entrepreneurship and sustainable development.
Mayor of Malmö Katrin Stjernfeldt Jammeh stated on social media: “Fun and historic first sod! In the sun and to the sound of fanfare, we grabbed the shovels – and the construction of Citadellsgymnasiet is formally underway!”
The Citadellsgymnasium will be the sixth municipal city school, with a location on Citadellskajen and with room for little over 1,000 students in modern instructional facilities. Topics of environmental issues, sharing economy and sustainable development will take central position in the curriculum.
The Malmö Citadellsgymnasium is scheduled to open in 2024. Those who apply for the academic year 2022/2023 will begin their studies at Gäddan, Malmö University, which is only a few hundred metres from the planned school. The future school is said to provide good opportunities for further education at colleges, universities and polytechnics.
“Imagine that we have expanded the primary school system with over 10,000 places since 2013. Now we see that the upper secondary school groups are getting bigger and the search pressure for our municipal upper secondary schools is high,” mayor Stjernfeldt Jammeh further stated.
“This year alone, there are 400 more young people in secondary schools in Malmö than last year, and it feels good to make sure that even more of them can benefit from important and good education,” she continued.
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations have been included into Swedish national policy as well as Malmö’s own objectives, putting sustainability at the heart of the Scandinavian city’s policies.
The City of Malmö was also one of the first cities in the world to embrace the global goal when the UN member countries agreed on the 2030 Agenda as the universal action plan. (photo credit: Malmo.se/screenshot)
