NO WASTE BUT HASTE FOR A GOOD FATE Erasmus Project

Project Title

NO WASTE BUT HASTE FOR A GOOD FATE

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: Environment and climate change; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship

Project Summary

In our society, the importance of a high quality life style tends to transform opportunities into problems as our perception of daily existence has led to over-consumerism of food, water, energy, clothes and other products. Unfortunately, this perception tends to string along bad habits, represented by the notion of WASTE, a central element of our project which contributes to the pollution of ecosystem, useless burdening of our planet and a pressure on the shoulders of society.
We as Germany, Romania, Netherlands, Spain, Estonia and Turkey came up with this project idea after conducting a survey and seeing that we have common needs/priorities. Our project proposes to fight against some of bad habits that corresponds to a global priority defined by the European Commission, which aims to support awareness about environmental challenges in order for our students to become true factors of change (by saving resources, reducing energy use and waste, promoting a sustainable food choice etc.)
The Waste project wants to train our students to avoid making waste, and to acquire eco-friendly habits doubled by entrepreneurial skills that contribute to a regional development since our schools are settled in areas with sustainable touristic potential.

Objectives:
*to change the perception of a quality life style that can be defined by less WASTE, consumerism, excessiveness; and more by reuse, recycle, reinvest that leads to a new long time behavioral pattern in order to protect the (natural and social) environment we leave in; through focusing on Critical Thinking.
*To raise participants awareness in caring the environment in which they spend their life as well as being aware of their own capacity of acting and taking good decisions
*To emphasize common values, civic engagement and responsible citizenship through international projects building up a strategic partnership
*To support our students acquire new skills by effective use of ICT tools for both learning and teaching
*To foster effective use of foreign languages in the process of evolving on both professional and personal paths, social entrepreneurship, critical thinking, creativity and cooperation via reusing objects and promoting sustainable development.
*To foster distance teaching/learning for emergency cases as the one we face with nowadays; the spreading of Corona virus
*To form international cooperation between educational institutions and exchange of good practices in teaching, learning and extracurricular activities.

Concrete Results/Activities:
-A video clip (advertising) about Waste Management
-Website
-Twinspace
-Logo
-2 calendars
-An eco-friendly brochure
-Visuals as flyers, quotes, banners, posters, PPT

Activities/Participants:
*Each partner school will host an LTT mobility and organise activities to reach our goals and to create the results mentioned above. A Kick off meeting will be held for a good sound management in Germany at the beginning of the project.
*120 students to be accompanied by 60 teachers will join the planned mobilities. All the schools communities will be directly or indirectly involved in the project activities. The project results will have a great impact on a great number of people all around the world.

Methodology:
A realistic/feasible methodology to promote entrepreneurship, social equity and environmental awareness, based on CRITICAL THINKING and ICT, will be followed in the planned activities.

Impact:
Our students will,
•develop awareness of the importance of reducing WASTE
•become more active and determined by developing CRITICAL THINKING
•raise awareness and understanding of social-cultural diversity
•acquire social, civic and intercultural competences necessary for their personal development
•learn more about their own, other societies and traditions
•become confident individuals who have a sense of self worth, personal and European identity
•develop their enquiry, research and evaluation skills
•improve the communication skills in English

Teachers will:
•learn innovative ICT based teaching methods-tools through actively taking part in the creation of visuals
•exchange ideas and good practices in dealing with environmental issues, learners with disadvantaged backgrounds, diversity in classrooms, use of new teaching methods and tools

-Our schools will:
•increase their quality of education via offering international learning experience, and enhancing cross-border cooperation We have a global vision of dissemination with the aim of creating a worldwide impact on a great number of people to raise environmental awareness.

The website and twinspace will live on long after the project is completed through being updated and enriched. The Waste advertisement will develop critical thinking, by being aired on TVs-Radios, even after the project duration. We will make use of all the project results in our schools’ curricula and learning goals for a long time.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 188700 Eur

Project Coordinator

Eleonoren-Gymnasium & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Mäetaguse Põhikool
• IES LLORENÇ GARCIAS I FONT
• Özel Simge Ortaokulu
• Lentiz Life College
• Colegiul National de Informatica Matei Basarab