EcoStep in Europe Erasmus Project

Project Title

EcoStep in Europe

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

The project EcoStep around Europe was based on mutual interest of the participants towards a more environmentally conscious life and is devoted to working on topics related to nature and eco-tourism. It was composed of five countries: Lithuania, Portugal, Slovenia, Croatia, Romania. All of the participating countries are aware of the dramatic situation caused by Global warming and are aware of the fact that transportation, traveling, and tourism are also contributors to the greenhouse effect.

Our main aim was to analyze current trends in tourism and promote future trends which have been inter-twinned with culture, traditions environment, and heritage. By involving international cooperation, we compared cultural and eco-tourism with standard tourism and solve tourism-related problems by finding new creative methods and techniques.
The main issues were to provide students and teachers with a deeper understanding of responsible tourism and to widen their knowledge in subjects connected to culture, history, traditions, gastronomy, environmental protection, English language, and ICT whilst integrating students who have come from different cultural backgrounds.
Our main objectives with this project were:
-To raise our students’ consciousness on environmentally conscious tourism.
-To encourage students to respect the environment in which we live, to preserve natural monuments, to develop students’ eco-culture and creative initiative
-To develop teachers and students’ knowledge on the topic of responsible tourism connected to culture, history, and traditions.
-To raise students’ knowledge of other cultures and encourage them to discover and engage with Europe’s cultural heritage, and to reinforce a sense of belonging to a common European space.
Target group-students aged 12-17 from Lithuania, Croatia, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia.
The partners were chosen via eTwinning platform.

To reach the project’s aims and objectives 5 teaching/learning activities were organized where students will work in multinational and multidisciplinary groups. (3 teaching/learning activities were physical, 2-virtual because of the situation of Covid-19 and the project was prolonged 6 months). The creation of a single group, with members from different countries, cultures, genders, religions, and social and economic conditions, will work on a theme that is transnational, involving different strategies and methods with the same goal. The skills and competencies that students may acquire were useful in different contexts nowadays and in future mobilities and experiences within Europe or worldwide where might find employees/ employers from different cultures and different working conditions and methods.
Several innovative learning methods will be used such as thinking-based learning, collaborative learning, modern and digital teaching/learning methodology which was organized during the mobilities, within a real-world environment.
During the project a few final products were prepared:
-Creation of a green e-dictionary with all the words related to eco-tourism in English-Lithuanian- Portuguese-Romanian-Slovenian-Croatian languages.
– Can and Can’t do eGuide on eco-tourism.
-The research results will be presented to see how the level of knowledge on eco-tourism has increased.
-Creation of e-book on Tourism.

For educational purposes, all the materials will be free and open to everyone.

As a result, this partnership not only helped our learners to develop spoken skills in foreign languages and build their European citizenship but will raise their future social inclusion opportunities as well.
Teachers involved were given the opportunity to develop their language skills and learn the teaching practices related to discipline in the partner countries, how to incorporate innovative digital and ICT teaching tools in their practices, and make their classes more engaging and more challenging for their students.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 99239,92 Eur

Project Coordinator

Kretingos Marijono Daujoto pagrindine mokykla & Country: LT

Project Partners

• Osnovna skola Bisag
• Agrupamento de Escolas Professor António Natividade – Mesão Frio
• Osnovna sola Danila Lokarja Ajdovscina
• Scoala Gimnaziala nr 7 Buzau