Guarding Life Of Water Erasmus Project

Project Title

Guarding Life Of Water

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: Health and wellbeing; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Natural sciences

Project Summary

“Water is life, without water life doesn’t exist” seems such a plain expression we sometimes turn to. However, there is a powerful message lurking in that sentence. Both the earth and the body are made up of water, so this scientific fact witnesses the relevance of water for life. Unfortunately, more often than not we take this for granted. Each country in this project can boast a strong and unique bond with the element of water in the different accumulation of it we can happen to come upon such as sea, rivers, lakes or even streams. Five schools from five different European countries have found a common ground in their consistent and heartfelt environmental awareness. They can testify to a long tradition of initiatives and choices that try to benefit our earth, attempting to be mindful and taking care of the natural environment around us focusing increasing attention on water bodies. Keeping the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in view, this project has the undeniable value to spread and cultivate environmental awareness. In this ecological, “green” framework this project aims at pupils actively building their new knowledge and meanings through experiences, experiments and real problem solving activities. Students will play the true, leading role in all the learning initiatives and tasks with emphasis on increasing their self-confidence and motivation. Learning being a social activity pupils will carry out their activities and will live each outdoor or indoor experience being together, interacting with one another. Pupils will get the invaluable opportunity of sharing and negotiating all the subjects and issues they will come upon during their learning path. All the teachers commit themselves to undertake and to promote a large variety of new student-centered teaching methods and techniques, a hands-on approach and practical and interactive outdoor activities. Innovative technology having a significant impact on education, every school will promote and foster the use of digital devices so as to engage their students and to make tasks more challenging and funny. Teachers will develop a good learning environment where diversity in all its shades will be celebrated aiming to raise awareness of cultural differences and to practice their communicative skills in a foreign language. Students will have the chance to improve their English communicating in real situations while getting out of their comfort language zone. Five European countries will take part and will collaborate in carrying out this project: Portugal, as the applicant coordinator, Macedonia, Spain, Turkey and Italy as participants. GLOW involves a wide and rich variety of organizations since there are Primary schools, Middle and High Secondary schools, and the target group students’ age ranges from 10 to14. More than 24 students from each school – a total of more than 120 students will be involved in the LTT activities in C1, C2, C3, C4 and C5, and teams of teaching staff consisting of 6 to 8 teachers from each school – a total of 40 teachers, will be actively involved in the project. There will be more students involved in GLOW Erasmus Clubs in each school with a total of more than 175 students who will directly benefit from the project activities, boys and girls alike, including students with special educational needs. The tasks and events will be realized through cooperative learning and workshops, in pairs, small mixed groups and peer to peer to enhance the interaction and communication in English with engaging games, a chance to visit the schools’ labs, clubs and open air activities such as visits to characteristic natural places with their typical flora and fauna above all taking long walks by rivers, streams, lakes or the sea, and cultural visits and institutions related to the sea, to the rivers or to the lakes. Both students and teachers will be involved in playful and creative activities in order to think over and check what and the reason why they have learnt it. They all have the opportunity to make an original and quite simple digital or a handmade item to remind and to celebrate the entire experience. Parents and the local community will be actively involved, too. Starting from a shared long tradition of care for and focus on environmental problems and safeguard, this project will be able to consistently strengthen thoughtful actions and respectful treatment of nature on the part of students, parents and local communities and make an even wider impact. The meetings and exchanges with people from other countries and the occasion to compare and share experiences will make visible our belonging to only one European community. This project was born and developed thanks to the collaborative work of seven women teachers and this singular coincidence coupled with the contemporary example of many female activists seem to strengthen the need to bring back more human and grateful approaches to other human beings and to the planet Earth.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 164650 Eur

Project Coordinator

Agrupamento de Escolas Alberto Sampaio & Country: PT

Project Partners

• Opshtinsko osnovno uchilishte Kocho Racin Kumanovo
• ESCOLA EL TEMPLE
• Kartal Bilim ve Sanat Merkezi
• Istituto Comprensivo Marassi