Less chemical more quality life Erasmus Project

Project Title

Less chemical more quality life

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 : Strategic Partnerships for Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Health and wellbeing; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Natural sciences

Project Summary

Our project was about harmful and toxic chemicals which we often used in our daily lives.The damage given to the environment, nature and human beings was also included in the project subject. This project were carried out as “etwinning project” at our school since the November of 2014.The project aroused interest among students and teachers.That was what we wanted.Our goal was to guide students to build up a sustainable and healthy future.To raise awareness about the environmental issues and let them to learn how they could change their eating habits were our main goals.We used many chemicals in our daily lives. Due to those chemicals the troubles such as cancer, obesity, asthma and allergy have been increasing and we also have been suffering from such problems of global warming, air pollution and climate change. We observed that most of our students would rather eat fast food than homemade food; they could not read the product labels properly while purchasing them, and prefer cheap and attractive foods instead of healthy products. The reason of our carrying the project onto an international platform derived from the fact that our subject was a common and universal issue.
Through cooperative studies and information sharing, the policies and implementations of the partner countries about the chemicals were compared with each other.The purpose of our project was to raise the awareness rate of the students as our main target groups from 25% to 40% about the harmful chemicals and their results on the environment and health. To reach our aim, we, as one of the 6 schools from 5 different European partner countries, started our Project as an “Awareness Campaign”. We targeted the students between ages 15-18, their parents, our school teachers, surrounding schools and shopkeepers. We expected that around 3000 people would benefit from our project. Our stakeholders such as relevant ministries, universities, healthcare organizations and environmental clubs contributed to our project and they played a great role in the dissemination process. Sharing the same world and similar problems with our partners was the biggest cause of our study. The wish for a common solution, a healthy and quality life, the pursuit of similar policies on chemicals and sensitivity to the nature gathered us together.Through the project, we proposed : Identifying simple chemical products which were used in our daily lives and awareness of their harmful effects ,learning how to live without harmful chemicals , learning how to change eating habits,improving knowledge of science ,improving language skills,self confidence and entrepreneurship,strengthening intercultural cooperations and participation in society ,gaining environmental consciousness for students.For teachers : gaining new knowledge of the ideas and practices in the disciplines of science,an understanding of intructional strategies, observing partner countries’ lifestyle,eating habits,their curriculum and how often this subject was mentioned in the lessons,the government’s approach to this topic, enriching their teaching methods and learning new ways to motivate students, increasing in the consciousness level about harmful chemicals and their effects.In addition to these impacts , our other stakeholders gained from the results.We had opportunity to promote our school and our country in European Union countries.Also we contributed to the internationalization of our school.Present partnership opened the way for future European cooperations on other topics of common interest.Our project comprised short term exchanges of student groups; workshops, presentations, science festival, field trips, experiments, team work, and transnational project meetings; the discussion on the chemistry and biology curriculums, planning, evaluation and the summary of the project. As a result of these studies, the materials such as, leaflets, posters, short videos, blog, websites, magazine, e-book were prepared and they were provided for all target groups to raise the awareness. The success and results of our project were evaluated through the surveys, reports, statistical information. After the project, information sharing continued through the social Networks like facebook and whatsapp so the sustainability of the project would be supplied.We studied through different teaching methods and learning techniques.Those were active learning,effective teamworking,social networking, gamifications, problem based learning ,researching and analysing. Holistic approach, interdisciplinary and student- centered approaches were also mostly used in this project. Now our project team is ready to share its knowledge,develop the project further and gain new experiences.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 116785 Eur

Project Coordinator

Ankara Lisesi (Anadolu) & Country: TR

Project Partners

• 15 Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace
• Agrupamento de Escolas D. Sancho I
• Altindag Gazi Anadolu Lisesi
• Rigas 31. vidusskola
• 5th LYCEUM OF TRIKALA
• IIS GOBETTI MARCHESINI-CASALE – ARDUINO