To develop organizational skills and discipline, they are responsible for keeping and updating all material related to schoolwork and other activities in a specially designated binder.

The CFERs help 15 to 18-year-olds acquire skills that are clearly in demand in the job market. Knowledgeable, productive and engaged in environmental protection, the students are contributing directly toward concrete solutions to the problem of waste. In each centre the aim is to develop useful skills in the expanding environmental and recycling sector. Students are taught - and learn to live by - basic workplace skills and attitudes (the five key ones are discipline, respect, autonomy, effort and commitment). Academic courses are seen as means of entry into the real world rather than as an activity useful only in school. This is what makes the CFER valuable for students is doing hands on work during class hours, applying in-class learning directly to the work being done, breaking up academic work by alternating class and manual work.

11. Funding Mechanisms

Each CFER is responsible to its business.

Teachers use these organizations to prepare the young persons for labour market.

Each CFER is governed by a board of directors.

12. Organizational Dimensions

Ideally, a CFER is organized into two groups of students with 15 students and 3 teachers each.