Travel to the future with my waste. Erasmus Project

Project Title

Travel to the future with my waste.

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: Research and innovation; Environment and climate change; Social/environmental responsibility of educational institutions

Project Summary

Our Hendek District is an industrial city. There are 2 organized industrial zones with 532 factories operated by multinational companies. Industrial waste is the biggest problem of local governments. In our meetings with our students and parents, waste-based environmental education is requested as an out-of-school education program. According to the Life Window Survey for students, 83% of our students want to participate in activities to be held as an Environmental Volunteer. According to our school stakeholders, Environmental Education is our most important need.

5 schools came together in this project, which will blend the experiences and education organization of the countries that are leaders in an environmental education centered on recycling, with the studies in our country and will gain a recycling-oriented environmental protection awareness starting from our students. Each school will bring the areas they specialize in to other schools and create an environmental education plan. In this sense, we need a multinational study.

Our project aims:
To develop the skills to select products that will leave less waste and to design innovative materials on the subject. To ensure that 5 of every 10 materials used in education and training life of our students are selected from materials that will be classified as waste, and 5 materials are selected from products that can be recycled, not waste, to gain awareness about recycling. To know the concept of recycling. To recognize the materials that can be recycled at home and in the social environment and to provide them with the ability to classify rubbish accordingly. To ensure that every student classify 100% of their waste at school and at home. To develop drama skills in environmental education. To gain design and design skills in environmental education.Creating school policies on environmental education and recycling. Having knowledge about environmental renewable energy.
Our teachers and students have foreign language skills, understand the European culture and education system, and explain their culture to the European society.

4 student working groups will be formed in the project. These are: Drama group, Experiment Group, Gezi Group and Workshop Design Group. Those who are successful in the Environmental Knowledge Test and volunteers will be selected among these groups.

5 LTT is planned in the project.
1.LTT: Agrupamento de Escolas de Pedome school will host. Each project partner country will join LTT with 4 teachers. Teacher Training on the Journey to the Future with Waste will be studied.
2.LTT: Istituto Comprensivo di Lerici school will host. Each country will participate in LTT with 5 students and 3 accompanying teachers. In order to make sure that the amount of waste produced is less, I gain the skills to select the products I use and their activities will be studied.
3.LTT: Kaunas Dainava Basic School school will host. Each country will participate in LTT with 5 students and 3 accompanying teachers.
4.LTT: Osnovna skola Popovac school will host. Each country will participate in LTT with 5 students and 3 accompanying teachers. I will learn Recycling activities will be studied.
5.LTT: Ziya Gökalp Secondary School will host. Each project partner country will join LTT with 4 teachers. My Waste is Transformed into Edible Energy. Efficiencies will be studied.

Participant selection:
Teacher Participant Criteria: Drama group, Experiment Group, Gezi Group and Workshop Design Group, 5 people will be selected to represent each group who participated in the Consultant Teacher Training and received the highest score from the exam at the end of the training period. Student Participant Criteria: 50 points as a result of Environmental Knowledge Test and Interest Skill Determination Inventory. For the Green TV channel to be created for the project, a social media-based practice exam will be held, and the scores from this exam will be 10 points, the project song will be created, and students will be selected for all three LTTs, with the number of works by Drama group, Experiment Group, Travel Group and Workshop Design Group. . Elections will be made in the presence of those concerned and recorded.

With the project, the following effects are planned to be observed in the participants.
They will be conscious about waste management.
Students ‘and parents’ willingness to engage in environmentally focused education and activities in the school will increase their motivation levels.
Knowledge about environmental energies will increase
They will have the opportunity to get to know the universal organizations in environmental education.
They will gain motivation to volunteer about the environment. They will recognize European culture.

After the project is over; Project guide booklets, bulletins, reports will be available for 5 years. Environmental Protection based associations, foundations, municipalities and Sakarya University will be our solution partners.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 158912 Eur

Project Coordinator

Ziya Gokalp Ortaokulu & Country: TR

Project Partners

• Kaunas Dainava Basic School
• Istituto Comprensivo di Lerici
• Osnovna skola Popovac
• Agrupamento de Escolas de Pedome