As part of both the students’ civic education program and the school’s eco-friendly initiative, SERD is a major event for raising awareness.
The 2025 edition, themed “Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment,” gave rise to numerous educational and community-service initiatives.

Among the initiatives carried out:

• Collecting cell phones in partnership with the Ecotrel association

• Training eco-delegates to repair household and electronic items with the Repair Café association

• Raising awareness about the issue of electronic waste accumulation through the creation of two sculptures made by the Green Vauban club and displayed in the CDI’s windows.

The SERD was also marked by Vauban’s participation in the 2nd edition of the AlimenTerre Festival, featuring film screenings followed by discussions, as well as the Green Friday campaign, led by the eco-delegates, as an alternative to Black Friday.

🔍 Read the article on the 2025 edition

🔍 Read the article from the 2024 edition

Held every April, Earth Week is another highlight of Vauban’s commitment to the environment.
For one week, students and staff are invited to participate in a variety of activities to better understand climate issues and take concrete action to help the planet.

Here’s a look back at some of the key initiatives from the 2025 edition:

• Participating in charity drives (clothing for the Luxembourg Red Cross and the HUT association; bottle caps for the Thionville Handisport Association)

• Restoring the educational garden with the eco-delegates

• Participating in workshops organized by La Fresque du Climat

• Gardening as part of the “Reading, Nature, and Ecology” project, in partnership with the Centre d’Initiative et de Gestion Local (CIGL) in Esch-sur-Alzette

• Participate in the City of Schifflange’s Zero Cigarette Butt Challenge, which collected 10,000 cigarette butts in 1 hour and 30 minutes

• Assess your carbon footprint through an interactive “Energy for Life” workshop led by the Scienteens Lab Physics (University of Luxembourg)

To mark Earth Day, the eco-delegates also organized a charity sale of plants and balms they had made themselves to fund future eco-friendly projects.

Throughout the week, several scientific, artistic, and educational exhibits were on display, complemented by projects created by the students themselves, turning Vauban into a true hub for dialogue and creativity centered on ecology.

🔍 Dive into the topic

Held every year in December, Solidarity Week is a highlight of civic engagement at Vauban. It aims to raise students’ awareness of the values of solidarity, sharing, and volunteerism, while helping them better understand the social, humanitarian, and environmental realities of the world around them.

Through presentations by nonprofit organizations, classroom discussions, and numerous solidarity initiatives (fundraisers, sales, sports challenges, and Christmas markets), students are encouraged to get actively involved, in their own way, in meaningful projects.

2025 Edition

Solidarity Week 2025, held from December 8 to 12, once again brought the entire school community together around a rich and unifying program.
Charity fundraisers, presentations by nonprofit organizations, initiatives in support of the Telethon, sports challenges, and a Christmas market allowed students—from elementary school through high school—to get actively involved and give a tangible expression to their commitment.

Some key highlights from previous years

For more than six years, Solidarity Week has been an integral part of school life.
During recent editions:

• More than 1,000 students participated each year, from elementary school through high school

• About fifteen participating organizations have addressed a variety of themes—including international solidarity, health, disability, child welfare, and the fight against poverty—through awareness-raising activities and classroom presentations for students

• Over €2,000 raised during some editions to support charitable initiatives

• Unifying highlights: food and clothing drives, sports tournaments, charity sales, and meetings with representatives from nonprofit organizations

In recent years, Solidarity Week has brought together organizations such as the Telethon, SOS Children’s Villages, North-South Cooperation, Handicap International, ELA Luxembourg, Pour un Sourire d’Enfant (PSE Junior), Stand Speak Rise Up!, SOS Faim, Caritas Luxembourg, the Luxembourg Red Cross, Île aux Clowns, Toutes à l’école, the Sarah Grond Foundation, the Luxembourg Food Bank, and La Femme Contemporaine asbl.

These initiatives enable students to develop active citizenship, give meaning to their learning, and experience meaningful moments of exchange, in line with the values upheld by Vauban.

📅 View the 2025 program

🔍 Return to the article on the 2024 edition

A monthly vegetarian meal for everyone is offered at the canteen on the first Monday of every month, in accordance with the commitments made at the Benelux Eco-Delegates’ COP in 2023–2024. This initiative promotes more sustainable eating and reduces the environmental footprint of the meals served.

It also allows students to discover balanced and delicious vegetarian alternatives.

Two charity meals are organized each year in the cafeteria in partnership with our school meal provider, Eurest (part of Compass Group Luxembourg):

A charity lunch to benefit SOS Faim as part of the AlimenTerre Festival and the ONU's World Food Day. A single vegetarian meal made with local ingredients is offered to the entire school community.

During Earth Week, the “Bol de riz” initiative allows volunteers to choose between a light meal or making a donation. The funds raised are donated to Student@Heart.

A collaborative project by the Vauban eco-representatives, carried out by the first cohort in 2020–2021 in partnership with the Film and Audiovisual Studies (CAV) course.

As part of the ‘Ocean comes to Luxembourg’ (L’Océan s’invite au Luxembourg) project, led by IMS Luxembourg (Inspiring More Sustainability) and the fondation 1Ocean, students from Seconde B took part in a week dedicated to raising awareness about ocean-related issues, culminating in the creation of podcasts.
Supported by experts and working alongside students from the Lycée international de Mersch, they gave a voice to people committed to protecting the oceans and shared their reflections on the vital role marine environments play in our daily lives

🎧 Listen to the podcasts created by the students
🔍 Learn more: read the full article.

As part of Media and Information Literacy  (EMI) and Education for Sustainable Development, two 6ᵉ classes stepped into the role of trainee journalists.
Throughout the school year, the students carried out investigative and writing work focused on Vauban’s educational garden.

Their chronicles, drafted in the form of short news features, address in particular:

• crop pests and the principles of biological control,

• birds observed in the garden during winter.

Supported by their teachers, the students learned how to search for reliable information, cross-check sources using the e-sidoc documentary database, write clearly, cite their sources and illustrate their work.
To end the project, the chronicles were recorded and broadcast on the school’s web radio, Vauban On Air, giving rise to the Vegetable garden chronicles podcast.

 Discover the podcast: episode 1 & episode 2