Change Begins With You and Me! Erasmus Project

Project Title

Change Begins With You and Me!

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: Energy and resources; Natural sciences; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

24-months “Change Begins With You and Me!” project was built in cooperation with Italy (coordinator), Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria and Portugal.The effects of climate change are not limited to hurricanes, droughts, floods.There is a danger of encountering new diseases, insect species, thirst, desertification or serious climatic events in the future.People’s actions leave permanent traces, such as footprints on the planet, and bring life to dangerous dimensions.Climate change is a problem not only for politicians but also for all of us as citizens of the world.Most importantly, schools need to cover this issue more broadly, both inside and outside the curriculum.Because changing the usual behavior begins at an early age and continues throughout life. Lessons learned early in life can prompt a lifetime of smart habits.For this reason, our aim is to raise awareness of climate change, to provide students with sustainable behavior change throughout the life, to draw attention to environmental problems at the global and national level, to make students much more knowledgeable about the risks that the next generation might face, to learn effective and innovative practices by collaborating with our European partners in order to incorporate climate change issues into citizenship, science, ICT, geography, mathematics and art, and to integrate into our curriculum.
Our objectives are;
-To develop open access resources and training packages for raising awareness.
-To encourage changes in the attitudes and behaviors needed to make our world more sustainable, and building new generations that are sensitive to climate change.
-To increase “climate literacy” on students, encouraging students to take action to prevent further climate change.
-Strengthening teachers’ capacities and curricula, promoting climate change education.
Teachers who will provide added value, and students aged 9-12 will participate in mobilities.At the end of the two years, the total number of participants will be 60 students and 40 teachers.
Planned the main project activities within the LTTA are; preparing a Global Objective Country map using an interactive map, determining global goals and preparing jigsaw that includes actions to achieve global goals, carbon footprint activities, preparing storyboards, preparing models of preparing greenhouse effects, playing green selection game, drawing e-cartoons, workshops on getting energy from water, building a solar oven and a wind farm, producing bio-diesel fuel, making bags by turning old t-shirts into strings, designing a city for sustainable living, designing wearable technologies and clothing; visiting the METU Institute of Marine Sciences in Turkey, product exhibitions, a conference about zoonotic diseases, finding solutions for 2050, “my water footprint” activity, creating an action plan, creating sustainable food menu, global warming through pantomime, designing global warming cliparts images, developing an utopia on the subject of “my country in 100 years”, drawing a sketch of their mind map, outdoor math activities, making a terrarium, creating a seed bank, designing a butterfly garden, presentation of the endangered species, building an insect hotel, interactive workshops, climate-friendly lifestyle quiz using Kahoot app, the Green Brain of the Year Contest and opening/closing gala.
Regular contact between partners will be through Facebook, Google drive, whatsapp, eTwinning online meetings and face-to-face progress and evaluation meetings every LTTA twice a year.Each school will meet in the 1st week of each month, review the work plan and provide information to the coordinator by completing his duties and responsibilities on time.
The results are:We will integrate innovative practices about climate change into the curriculum of citizenship, science, geography, mathematics and physics.We’ll develop supplementary educational materials and open access resources for teachers and students.Teachers will strengthen their capacity by developing cooperation and collaboration with European partner schools.Students will try to make lifelong sustainable behavior changes and change their lifestyle as responsible world citizens to reduce the effects of global climate change.We’ll draw attention to climate change and environmental problems at local, national and international level, create awareness, and spread the results in wide networks.
The partner schools will use all experiences for many years, especially in Science, Math, Art, ICT, Geograpy and citizenship lessons, and will develop new practices in the future with their transnational LTTA experience.Since our common outputs will take place electronically and as open access sources, partner schools and wider environments can always use these outputs without permission, colleagues can adapt or develop their own classes.
The participants will gain new knowledge and skills, gain awareness of global warming and climate change at European level.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 120840 Eur

Project Coordinator

IC Casoria3 Carducci-King & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Centro de Assistência Social à Terceira idade e Infância de Sanguêdo – Colégio Santa Eulália
• Scoala Gimnaziala Nr.28
• Osmaniye Ortaokulu
• Osnovno uchilishte Hristo Smirnenski