Be-Friend with nature Erasmus Project

Project Title

Be-Friend with nature

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Teaching and learning of foreign languages; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

Nowadays, environmental issues represent a major global concern as they affect the quality of our lifestyle. Since most of the environmental challenges facing humanity are the consequences of human harmful activities, we, as educators, feel that it is our duty to educate students in this respect in order to become responsible adults. With the project “ Be-Friend with nature”, 5 schools in Bulgaria, Turkey, Poland, Greece and Italy aim to provide participants with a wide range of opportunities so as to enhance their awareness on environmental issues and enrich knowledge in the field thanks to innovative teaching and learning methods. Hence, they will do presentations, analysis, search activities in a collaborative and stimulating atmosphere that encourages communication with their peers.
Project objectives can be summarized as follows:
• to enhance participants’ knowledge and degree of awareness towards environmental global issues
• to motivate students develop a proactive attitude and think globally
• to foster the integration of innovative strategies such as flexible and personalized learning, digital story telling, gamification, video-based learning, project-based learning in the schools’ curriculum
• to raise students’ interest in learning foreign languages, especially English, and develop their English language communicative skills
• to promote the use of CLIL in the Environmental Education subject
• to improve key competences and skills in ICT and digital tools
• to develop participants’ sense of tolerance, active citizenship and ability to overcome cultural and linguistic obstacles
• to improve pedagogical expertise and experience
• to provide a European dimension to the educational process in all partner schools
Students aged ….. will represent the main target group and they will cooperate in transnational teams so as to exchange impressions, ideas, knowledge, cultural aspects of their home countries. We estimate that a total number of approximately 400 students will be indirect beneficiaries of the project at partnership level.
Project products will consist of:
-Official project website
-E-twinning project space
-E-booklet of Innovative Strategies with lesson plans and original examples from all five schools
-Urban sprawl photo album
-E-booklet of endangered species
-Digital story book on deforestation and endangered species
– Educational Video games database
-E-booklet of the international and local NGOs/institutions working for environment
Project partners have decided to share project responsibilities and each school will contribute to the project, follow the project calendar and deadlines established within the partnership.
The project outcomes and outputs will generate an inspiring potential. All project products will be available for free use on project website, in the e-twinning platform.
The planned LTTAs will be highlights in the project; an effective learning process environment based on participants’ experience and exchange employing various methods that focus mainly on practice. These will foster strengthened motivation, team spirit, increased self-confidence, creativity for constructive activities and further lifelong skills.
Participants will benefit from the undeniable experience and expertise of professionals and the schools’ associated partners in this project. By applying a constructivist approach, adults will assist students to transfer the gained information and apply it to a modern and dynamic school environment that will lead to a higher rank quality of educational services across Europe

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 138550 Eur

Project Coordinator

Scuola dell’infanzia paritaria L’Albero Azzurro & Country: IT

Project Partners

• FATIH ILKOKULU
• Miejskie Przedszkole Nr 9 “Kubus Puchatek” w Szczytnie
• Osnovno uchilishte ”Ran Bosilek”
• 1st Primary school of Chios “Ioanni Patera”