If you harm the environment, you will be harmed Erasmus Project

Project Title

If you harm the environment, you will be harmed

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; Social/environmental responsibility of educational institutions

Project Summary

CONTEXT
Waste is an issue that affects us all. We all produce waste: on average, each of the 500 million people living in the EU throws away around half a tonne of household rubbish every year. This is on top of huge amounts of waste generated from activities such as manufacturing and construction, while water supply and energy production generate another 95 million tonnes. Altogether, the European Union produces up to 3 billion tonnes of waste every year.
This partnership will involve 3 main directions:
1. Making an objective analysis of the current policies and situation related to waste management in each country, thus being able to identify common and differentiating aspects, which will enable us to organize the project activities and adapt the methodologies accordingly.
2. Activities with students to promote reduction of garbage, re-use of existing objects and avoidance of overconsumption, and recycling materials to turn them into useful or aesthetic objects.
3. All the way through the project, we will be working on a guide to waste management in schools and households that our schools can implement and share at the end of the project. Therefore, the third aim is to create a school-based system of eco waste management for the creation of which we will collaborate with the municipality and NGOS.
OBJECTIVES
The project addresses a general problem that has been focused on at the level of EU, but which has not found all the solutions. While we will not solve all the problems related to waste management or eliminate its effects on the environment, we intend to make a conscious effort to educate young people into becoming more environmentally responsible citizens.
The project specific objectives are:
1. to promote responsible and active citizenship among pupils
2. to develop the students’ environmental consciousness
3. to give pupils and professors the chance to analyse current practices in waste management and make positive changes
4. to turn the schools into ECO-friendly schools through the implementation of the waste management program
5. to improve intercultural awareness, promote tolerance, mutual respect and understanding
6. to develop students’ creativity, critical thinking and team work skills
ACTIVITIES
In order to achieve these aims, we plan 5 transnational events, intertwined with local activities on specific topics:
C1 – Waste management policies – statistics, regulatory acts, laws (joint-staff training)
C2 – REDUCE – Effects on the environment of bad disposal methods
C3 – REUSE – Campaign to promote reuse of materials
C4 – RECYCLE and RECREATE – Discover the mine in the waste
C5 – Development and implementation of school-based waste management systems (joint-staff training)
PARTICIPANTS
In the project, we’ll have a total of 96 learners whom will attend 3 international meetings (C2-C4). We will recruit from each school 2 participants with the professional experience for the themes for the 2 joint-staff training activities, in accordance to the organizer whom will join both sessions. Generally speaking, in C1 and C5, we’ll have a range of 24 teacher mobilities.
RESULTS
Our program is designed to generate a collection of intrinsic results consisting of the experience, talents, perceptions and environmental responsibility gained by the beneficiaries; we will build a culture of environmental consideration which all stakeholders will endorse and appreciate. Several of the measurable results provide: initial and final testing methods conducted among targeted groups, studies and displays on the local waste management, an e-magazine of environmental projects of the schools, students’ eco-diaries, surveys of local community members, art installations, e-brochure with DIY arts and crafts from recycled materials, Stop Waste Campaigns, Waste Management (WM) Programme for schools

IMPACT
For all partner institutions, this Erasmus+ project is going to bring benefits at all levels. For project partners with previous Erasmus+ experience, this project will continue to foster the European and international dimension of the schools. By using eTwinning intensively in the project, we will also be able to identify new opportunities for collaborations on the same topics and will also extend our network of European schools.
Inexperienced partners will increase their project management capacity, thus improving their exchange management and organizational skills.
We all increase the student and teacher mobility and make improvements at the level of the institutions
Our institutions become more environmentally friendly, focusing on ways to improve waste management. If this is done properly, then the project will produce changes in students’ attitudes to the environment in the medium and long term. This will be carried on into their personal lives and we expect to produce changes in the community too. In this way schools will confirm their key role in the education of future generations of adults.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 135318 Eur

Project Coordinator

Gymnazium Dobruska & Country: CZ

Project Partners

• ALI NIHAD TARLAN ILKOKULU
• Colegio La Magdalena
• Szkoła Podstawowa Nr 1 im. Tadeusza Kościuszki w Nowej Soli
• Scoala Gimnaziala Octavian Goga Satu Mare