Change Yourself Not Nature Erasmus Project

Project Title

Change Yourself Not Nature

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: Social/environmental responsibility of educational institutions; Environment and climate change; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

What we intend to do through our project are raising awareness about climate change covering water scarcity, deforestation, pollution, drought and flood, and directing students to make beneficial lifestyle changes to alleviate negative effects on the environment, and emphasising positive thinking, optimism by making students internalize that every action that they will take into for the protection of the environment whether in the dimension of small or large will find a positive respond not only nationally but also globally for the future of the world, and contributing to reduce absenteeism and early school leaving by making the students engage in the school related activities, and developing students’ self-confidence and skills such as ICT, critical thinking, collaboration, communication, problem solving, creativity, foreign language, soft skills, and also making them get rid of their prejudices towards different nations.
Threatening impacts on the natural environmental and life on Earth for generations to come, climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing all the nations. Educational institutions have responsibility for preparing present and future generations to understand climate change through active social learning that develops the capacity for personal and societal transformative practice. Therefore, we’ve decided to create our project concerning climate change to meet this need at our schools through project-based learning and cooperating with different countries since environmental issues affecting the whole world must be handled globally.
Our methodology is discovery and activity based, and solution oriented. Instead of providing students ready information, we will direct them to research and discovery. They will prepare presentations, write essays about the information they gather, and take decisions negotiating environmental issues as a team, and put into actions their plans that they will determine by collaborating with their peers from different countries, which will provide a long lasting awareness about climate change and make them productive EU citizens who care environmental issues and struggle to protect environment. It is also solution oriented as we will raise awareness about climate change, and students will internalize environmental issues, develop positive life changes by taking responsibility to protect environment.
200 students aged 16 to 18 and 25 teachers from partner schools will directly take part and approximately 1000 people will be included indirectly through the events to be done in LTTAs and dissemination activities.
Teachers will guide and motivate students, do necessary preparations for LTTAs, arrange informative meetings, supply information flow between partners, carry out eTwinning project, realize dissemination activities and inform the school board about the process, cooperate with youth centres, establish Environmental Awareness Club, and write evaluation report. Students will create presentations, write essays, participate in eTwinning project and do the activities in the scope of eTwinning, create logo, poster, Erasmus+ corner, and join photography competition, LTTAs, and take the surveys, attend the project meetings regularly.
We have planned 4 LTTAs. The objectives of the first LTTA is to train teachers about climate change and ICT. It is because teachers will be mentors, so they must be competent in environmental issues, and also ICT as the presentations will be created via web2 tools. In the other LTTAs, students will realize the club meetings, exchang ideas with their peers, present their presentations, and determine their action plan to be realized at their schools to combat with environmental issues, do brainstorming and join events at partner schools by collaborating youth centres.
For dissemination, YouTube channel, Facebook and instagram accounts will be created. The project website with 4 language options(English,Italian,Turkish and Greek) will be designed. eTwinning project will be carried out as subproject. All the news and outcomes will be shared in the project dissemination tools and eTwinning project journal. Three informative meetings will be arranged at each partner school. E-magazine and e-book with free accessible will be created ,printed out and also delivered to the other schools in the region, which will supply permanent record of the project.
Our project will be completed in 2 years, but the connection between partners will continue through Environmental Awareness Clubs to be established as an extracurricular activity at partner schools. Through these clubs, an event will be done every year on the determined dates by collaborating with youth centres, so the cooperation and sustainability of the project will be continued, which will also enable youth centres to benefit from the project in terms of working with school communities and raising awareness about climate change in wider dimension.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 117921 Eur

Project Coordinator

The Corporation of NCG & Country: UK

Project Partners

• Gazi Anadolu Lisesi
• Liceo Scientifico Statale “Alfred Nobel”
• 5 General Lyceum Veroias