Save the Nature through Education Erasmus Project

Project Title

Save the Nature through Education

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Environment and climate change; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

SNE (Save the Nature through Education) is an international project to be carried out in the field of school exchanges under the Erasmus + program. The SNE aims to inform participants and other stakeholders about popular environmental problems and their solutions, while improving their civic skills and key competencies, as well as meeting new teaching and learning approaches and methodologies. SNE consists of variable activities for students and teachers that can combine them. The main goal of the SNE is to do all the parts;
* be aware of environmental issues and work on solutions
* meet / learn and use new teaching / learning methodologies
* Be active citizens and act in social matters
* Improve your key abilities and skills
* improve its capacity to use ICT
* expand your knowledge
* meet and learn about new cultures
* Take responsibility and gain confidence
* understand EU policies, priorities and bodies
* to spread Europe’s cultural heritage.
SNE will be implemented by partner schools from Poland, Turkey, Greece, Romania and Latvia under the leadership of a Polish partner. The idea of ​​SNE first appeared on social media and became the body of the e-Twinning platform. All partners met on the e-twinning platform (https://live.etwinning.net/projects/project/219564) and then decided to implement this project as a school partnership. The target group of this project are all high school students aged 11 to 15 years. This age group was chosen specifically because they are at the beginning of their adolescence and candidates to become adults. This period is when they begin to acquire their main personal qualifications and habits. We thought that if students at this age learned real civic qualities, they are likely to be better citizens in the future. This is also a critical period in which children encounter bad habits and manifest themselves aggressively. If you take responsibility, be active, social and confident, you will avoid this unwanted incident. During the SNE, all partners will carry out five different education / teaching / training activities. These LTTs will be attended by 4 students and 3 teachers from each partner. While students work on environmental problems and their solutions, such as global warming, pollution, etc., teachers will help and guide them in carrying out these activities through / encountering new teaching / learning methodologies such as phenomenal learning, inverted classrooms, CLIL, task-based learning. , computer training, etc.
Search and analysis, group work, kinesthetic learning, work-based learning, cooperative learning and many other practical teaching / learning methods will be actively used. Participants will run live campaigns outside of their school, such as planting trees, cleaning the beach, demonstrating … and will produce products such as solar panel samples, wooden household items … etc. that will allow them to be active citizens. In a world where teenagers are associated with technology, improving their ICT skills is, of course, another key objective of the SNE. Uploading and creating videos, preparing presentations, digital calendars … will help them learn how to use ICT properly.
In practice, teachers and students will also encounter new and popular teaching / learning methodologies. While improving their skills, they will also improve their personality and the quality of their citizenship, evaluate current applications and be more motivated to seek, try and implement new solutions.
Dissemination and sustainability activities are, of course, of great importance in achieving the expected benefits in the long term. The SNE will therefore try to reach as many people as possible. Cooperation and integration with stakeholders such as nearby schools, local authorities, the media, energy and environmental companies, NGOs and parents will be achieved through various activities, such as regular meetings, visits, interviews, the application of questionnaires and their invitation / involvement in actions. in schools. To reach more people, the virtual platforms will be used efficiently and all types of documents will be easily accessible and downloadable for third parties.

In short, the SNE is a project covering a number of social, educational and environmental issues to be studied;
* Inform people about environmental problems and their solutions.
* to encourage people and enable them to act as real social and responsible people in social matters
* Integrate social and real issues into the school curriculum using new methodologies.
In order to extend the benefits, the cooperation between the partner schools will continue on the eTwinning platform and the results will be shared in the sharing of the results of the Erasmus + project, the school gateway and other virtual platforms.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 137850 Eur

Project Coordinator

Szkola Podstawowa im. bl. Edmunda Bojanowskiego & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Scoala Gimnaziala Nr.28
• SEHIT KADIR CAN ORTAOKULU
• Baldones vidusskola
• 8th Primary School of Arta