In the system of continuous environmental education, the educational project has a great educational potential, with the help of which it is possible to acquaint students with a complex of ecological, economic and social problems, to identify the interrelationships of phenomena and processes between them, to consider the problems of preserving and improving the quality of life, preserving the natural resource potential for meeting the needs of not only the present generation, but also of future generations. It is the project, prognostic activity that promotes the futurization of the ecological consciousness, and the joint design and research activity of schoolchildren and students contributes to the conjugation of school and university environmental education, the formation of ecological culture in the younger generation. Keywords: Education, ecology, nation, student, intellectual potential, school.