Everything can be recycled, except the Earth Erasmus Project

Project Title

Everything can be recycled, except the Earth

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Social/environmental responsibility of educational institutions; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

Everything can be recycled, except the Earth – it is the title of our project, which focuses on the current issue around us – recycling and environment protection. We are a project team of six countries from different corners of Europe. Our project is an answer to our pupils´ and teachers´ needs. The main aim of our project is to increase the awareness about environment protection and recycling among pupils and other school staff members through various creative and innovative activities, increasing participants’ knowledge about other countries and cultures, developing social and intercultural competencies, increasing competences in ICT and foreign languages.
To get the project aims in all partners’ organizations, we will introduce methods of non-formal education by promoting equity and inclusion and reducing disparities in learning. We are going to introduce such activities that will address culture and social diversity, actions involving students with disadvantaged
backgrounds(social and economic obstacles) and minorities. Taking part in the project activities and creating the common products, participants will become
aware of the importance of recycling, reducing and reusing waste materials, moreover, they will become tolerant of other nationalities. They will better understand the differences and similarities between cultures and break stereotypes. The participants will get the knowledge but also practice about different educational systems and good practices in recycling around project team schools.
With our project we would like to achieve for pupils and teachers:
– raising an open debate on the benefits and risks of recycling and environmental protection
– recognize the problem of recycling more efficiently and promote it more effectively
– promoting critical, peer, initiative and experiential teaching and learning
– closer involvement of laic and the professional public in school activities
– more purposeful and conceptual involvement of interdisciplinary and cross-sectional relationships in innovative problem-solving
– the return of natural elements to the local community
– fight stereotypes and increase inclusion, tolerance, mutual understanding, and future international cooperation

We intend to achieve the aims in cooperation with all project schools. We are sure that the project teams will exchange good practices and way know-how between all partners. The methods and techniques of working in the project are interesting and innovative both for pupils and teachers. The work in the project is provided through integrated approaches and is incorporated into the partners’ school programme, according to the project plan. The target group consists of pupils aged 10 – 14 where disadvantaged pupils are also included as well as learners and teachers who want to develop their personal and professional possibilities. Doing the project and creating outcomes, participants will increase their competences, motivation, and satisfaction in school work. Teachers and pupils who want to participate in project activities are not discriminated according to age or sex. They all have the same possibility to participate. What is necessary is their motivation to work on project tasks, fulfill the objectives of the project and their effort to implement and disseminate the project, and also to ensure the sustainability of the project by applying of gained know-how into the educational process in each project school.
Working in international groups, leading multicultural dialogues and sharing ideas and knowledge will be the irreplaceable source of innovations, developing critical thinking, non-formal education, peer learning.
The project’s innovation lies mainly in its cross-sectional nature – across all subjects, methods, and ages – from direct teaching, field teaching, direct meetings with professionals to support active pupil access to self-interpretation of recycling and environmental issues through creative workshops and creative drama. These are activities that can be carried out in parallel in several subjects, not only within one subject, as in traditional teaching.

In order to achieve these goals, there will be workshops that are focused on the pupils, enabling them to contribute ideas and put them to good use.
For this purpose, we will use the following resources (input):
-experts
-questionnaires
– informal meetings
-presentations and reports
-good examples of environment-friendly companies
indicators and measurements:
e.g. self-assessment, participants project diaries, questionnaires, successful implementation of the project activities into the curriculum, open lessons,
different products: project logo, poem book with illustrations, e-booklet, slogans, worksheets, music CD, film, toys and other handmade objects, posters, postcards, video blogs, etc.
The project of the topic is relevant to the priorities of the Erasmus + programme and Agenda 2030, it is cross-sectional, sustainable and participatory.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 168160 Eur

Project Coordinator

Zakladna skola A. Sladkovica & Country: SK

Project Partners

• Vilniaus inzinerijos ir technologiju licejus
• Adazu vidusskola
• Fatih Ilkokulu
• Circolo Didattico V A.Gramsci Bagheria
• Colegio de Educación Infantil y Primaria Orokieta