The doors have opened for thousands of post-primary students to start working on their 'One Good Idea' project to inspire people to make small lifestyle changes that will use energy more efficiently and help tackle climate change.

Organised by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) and supported by the Better Energy programme, the aim of the project is to increase students' understanding of energy efficiency and climate change by encouraging them to take individual and collective responsibility for tackling these important issues, as well as highlighting how one good idea can make a big difference to our pockets, ourselves and our planet.

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Post primary schools from all over the country are invited to follow in the footsteps of last year's winners; team 'Tree of a Kind' from Loreto Secondary School, Balbriggan, Co Dublin, who developed an education programme for primary school pupils about energy efficiency and climate change. The national final will include a Dragons' Den style adjudication process for the teams who progress to this stage. The winning teams will be awarded with thousands of euros worth of fantastic prizes to both the students and the schools at a national final to be held in the Mansion House in Dublin in May 2014.

Commenting on this year's launch, Aoife Cannon, Education Programme Executive with SEAI said: "This is the 6th year of the One Good Idea project and every year the standard gets higher and the presentations more impressive.

"Great ideas have shaped our past and our present, we are calling on students from around Ireland to come up with one good idea that will help shape our future by raising awareness of energy and climate change issues in clever and innovative ways."

(CD/JP)