Promoting the development of personal knowledge and creating a sustainable lifestyle Erasmus Project

Project Title

Promoting the development of personal knowledge and creating a sustainable lifestyle

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: Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; Social/environmental responsibility of educational institutions

Project Summary

People who live on the planet Earth can choose between two options for the future: we can choose to handle our environment with care and accept sustainability, build a society that respects sustainability or follow the idea that someday in the future, humanity may lose a healthy life in a healthy environment. In the past many civilizations self-destructed themselves and got lost on the timeline of history. But today, the world is globalized, and harming our environment can have global consequences.

Parents’ surveys show the need for interesting and actively carried out natural science activities and international cooperation of the school. Through the project Promoting the development of personal knowledge and creating a sustainable lifestyle, the team leaders and teachers of the partner schools will create opportunities for future cooperation, strategies, orientations and needs of this project:
– how to develop and strengthen applied science knowledge and find connections with other areas,
– how to extend the new school practices to the participating schools in the project,
– how to transfer problem based learning and formative learning to the participating schools,
– how student’s start up ideas can be used in the partner schools,
– how to find ways affecting the professional choices of pupils in order to find green / environmental jobs,
– how to transfer the achievements of the project to the families of pupils and follow lifelong learning,
– how to convey the idea of ​​an outdoor classroom to participating schools and to strengthen the development of the partnership,
– how to present the results of the project with video production or journalism (interviews, short reports, news)
– how to follow the example of a school that is successful and rewarded in the ecological field,
– how to promote the field participation towards social roles,
– how to promote an entrepreneurial mindset, creativity, critical thinking.
– how to spread less known European languages ​​and to improve the knowledge of English,
– how to integrate activities into classes.

The project has two main target groups: pupils and teachers. This project aims is to develop a stimulating learning environment that will enable us to combine natural sciences with awareness of the importance of keeping the planet Earth for future generations. We also combine the field of social and economic development. We will incorporate problem learning and experiential learning, we follow the elements formative assessment. 4 principals and 18 teachers will participate in the project, they are mostly English teachers , science and class teachers. In this project, the number of teachers and other school staff and other associates will help wit the project. The age of the participating pupils will be 12 to 15 years.

Activities and workshops of the elementary school from Poljčane are: cooperation with the Learning Polygon Dole, the classroom of sustainable development in nature, where gifted pupils will work in groups with pupils with fewer opportunities, we will upgrad the research task on the topic of Creating tools for measuring the size of the Planet Earth and the implementation of measurements, problem-based learning about the positive impact of the school geothermal heating on the environment, the idea to transfer the idea of ​​implementing a similar solution to the issue of heating and hot water supply to the participating schools, how to clean and revive the river Dravinje and how the results can affect water quality, a poetry workshop in the languages ​​of the participating schools and the poetry evening of the best poems at the Bird Watching Observatory near the Dravinja River. the process of producing video contents will be part of the project, too.
The Makola Elementary School will prepare an artistic / sculptural workshop on the topic of the Blue Planet Earth with the cooperation with Forma viva, a traditional statue workshop in the Municipality of Makole, where natural materials such as wood, stone, paper are used, presentation of local tourist attractions, socializing by a camp fire, listening and telling stories related to the nature.
The Vilnius School will expand, present, and transfer ideas of replacing plastic straps with durable, metallic ones to partner schools, the idea of careers in sustainability and environmental responsibility jobs, participating in the local film festival, presenting sustainability, the research on waste reduction will be presented, and present the green mountain resort.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 80483 Eur

Project Coordinator

Osnovna sola Kajetana Kovica Poljcane & Country: SI

Project Partners

• Osnovna sola Anice Cernejeve Makole
• Vilniaus Antakalnio progimnazija
• Primary School “STARI GRAD”