Save The Future Not Only Today Erasmus Project

Project Title

Save The Future Not Only Today

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: Environment and climate change; Energy and resources; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship

Project Summary

The world population and the pollution created by consumption threaten our living spaces. Moreover, throwing away products that are usable is economic waste. With the aim of bringing these insights to our students, we teach environmental protection throughout the curriculum in the majority of our subjects and every year we organize The Earth Day. We also repeatedly recycle paper, plastic and dangerous waste. Our school also took part in the national competition of young fashion designers “Make New out of Old” (using recycled materials to make clothes and accessories). We based our project to be more progressive and innovative on an international scale. Thus, to educate individuals with world citizen consciousness so that they would not be indifferent to the problems of the world they live in.
Another contribution was that the participants have become aware of tolerance, harmony and democracy by recognizing different cultures of our participants. Moreover, one of the economic outputs of our project somehow contributed to the family budget and the economy (they learnt to reuse old materials and not spend much money on new things. In this way, in the long term the project contributed to their savings).
371 participants (273 students, 98 teachers) took part in the project activities during mobilities (LTT) and we can proudly say they have achieved sustainable experience. Moreover, about 4000 pupils, teachers and parents were addressed during dissemination activities.
We chose the participants who were interested in recycling, with the ability to speak English on a basic level, team-oriented, and open to intercultural dialogue. The selection of participants was based on clear, transparent, fair and gender equality principles.
We organised 5 Learning / Teaching / Training activities in which our participants experienced and learned from their peers, which was the main methodology for peer learning. Three of these activities were held in 3 different partner countries (Czechia, Bulgaria, Latvia) with 3 – 5 students and 2 – 3 teachers from each partner school. Two LTT organised by Turkey and Romania – covid affected – had to be done online via ZOOM.
The subject of our project was handled in a different way in each activity so that recycling awareness was settled in different areas of life: Physical: 1)Czech Republic: Recycling of Fashion 2)Bulgaria : Creating Decorations from Waste Materials 3)Latvia: You Can Save a Tree
Virtual: 4)Turkey: Recycling of Solid Waste 5) Romania: Creative Recycling
Participants have developed tolerance, harmony and understanding of democracy towards different cultures; foreign language proficiency aroused and they improved digital skills. In this regard, our project contributed to the development of participants´ lifelong learning skills. We spread all activities through social networks with the website, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube channel accounts which were established in the process of reaching the wider project outputs to the wider masses. In addition, informative meetings were held after the mobility within the institution and shared on an institutional basis via school boards. Workshop-based student, teacher, and parent project information meetings were held in different schools on different levels to influence the project at local level. All our activities were published in the local press, and dissemination on a local basis was done by all schools. Moreover, a flash-mob in a central public area was made to promote recycling awareness at the national level during the first and second years of the project. We have also created an e-Book which contains the main activities of the project. E-book is shared on all social media tools, especially websites. Access to this book is open to everyone even after the project is finished. In addition, each partner institution held the “April 22 Earth Day” celebrations every year in our project, the importance of recycling for the world was emphasized and so awareness of recycling was created. The institutions will continue to celebrate this day after the end of the project, which will contribute to the sustainability of this project.
Short-term project impacts on participants :
The participants have become individuals who have a high level of awareness about recycling, who are aware of their individual responsibilities in this respect and who take the world, environment, family and country economy into account. Moreover, they improved foreign language, digital and communicative skills.
Long-term project effects on participants:
They have become world citizens who are sensitive to the ecological problems of the world they live in, respectful and tolerant of different cultures.

Project Website

https://safnot.webnode.cz/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 92253,75 Eur

Project Coordinator

Stredni prumyslova skola polytechnicka – Centrum odborne pripravy Zlin & Country: CZ

Project Partners

• SEVIM TEKIN ANADOLU LISESI
• Limbazu 3. vidusskola
• Sdruzhenie Chastna profilirana gimnaziya po turizam i predpriemachestvo Rayko Tsonchev
• Colegiul Economic M. Kogalniceanu