ACT for ENVIRONMENT Erasmus Project

Project Title

ACT for ENVIRONMENT

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: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Natural sciences

Project Summary

Act for Environment is a student-oriented and hands-on project that tackles environmental issues and raises the students’ awareness of the problems we are facing nowadays and teaches them that protecting environment starts with us. Our society is faced with a growing number of environmental problems and still not too many people are willing to look at the long-term effects of it and our project aims at educating students how to become active and more responsible citizens. To educate and to act is an imperative, so that they can understand the importance and value of our natural resources and choose living sustainably.

Objectives of our project are to educate and raise awareness about our responsibility to slow down the side effects of technical progress, protect and preserve the world we live in. We aim at changing individual and collective behaviour through sustainable consumption and sustainable living.

This partnership involves 5 partner schools and the target groups are our students, aged 15-18, our teachers and also the wider community of our schools (families,local authorities etc). 4 students and 2 teachers from each partner school will participate at each LTT activity, yet many more will be involved in the other project activities. The project target group are not only highly motivated and advanced students, but also students with disadvantaged backgrounds, learning difficulties or facing social obstacles.

All partner schools have a significant experience in running different Environmental, eTwinning and European projects and are highly motivated to come up with innovative teaching methods to face the challenges of the lifestyle we lead nowadays and take responsibility to change it as precaution for future generations.
The project activities are geared toward the active participation of all students through fieldwork projects on the subject of ‘facing particular local environmental problems’, activities to be carried out in the classrooms with the use of web 2.0 tools and the help of innovative educational methods and a respective eTwinning project to sum up and promote all the above activities.

The planned activities are divided into different activities before, during and after each LTT and focus on 5 selected different topics:
1. Recycling as the first step
2. Mass consumerism society
3. Water polution
4. Endangered natural heritage and
5. Saving energy and the environment.
We will fill in different questionnaires, analyse them, explore and search for information to be presented, compare our results, organize different workshops, write blogs, reports, disseminate our results, prepare Open Days, learn from each other, gain experience, go on study visits. All activities will be interactive and enhance team work and peer learning, they will aim at developing new skills and competences necessary for participants’ personal development.

Methodology that we will use will be innovative, apprehendable, motivating, student-centred and will contain certain steps within each phase of the project’s life cycle. The teachers will apply new methods, instead of traditional ones, to achieve the aims of the project and will debate with groups with cultural differences or social obstacles, getting them to do presentations together, giving feedback to each other, discussing and reporting together.

We expect the participants to acquire an overall picture of the various environmental problems we are facing nowadays and the possible solutions on them.
In addition, with this project we intend to give our students not only the knowledge they need to appreciate environmental values but also the skills to act dynamically to protect them by adopting a more sustainable way of life and cooperating with one another in order to face particular local problems. With other European schools participating, we wish to bring up not only the pan-European aspect of these problems but the universal one as well and try to find common ways to face them.

This project is not limited only to the period it is applied for but is expected to address not only environmental issues, but also the exchange of good practices, experiences and future projects, Erasmus and eTwinning and deepen the tackled topic in the following years.

An online network relevant to environmental education will be created along with a repository of good educational practices which will be enriched by uploading good practices not only from the other partners but also from other schools that want to join.

This long term cooperation among participant schools will be the strong point of the sustainability of this project.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 138300 Eur

Project Coordinator

1 EPAL TRIKALON & Country: EL

Project Partners

• Liceul de Arte “Ionel Perlea”
• Agrupamento de Escolas Anselmo de Andrade
• EKONOMSKA I TURISTICKA SKOLA DARUVAR
• IES HISPANIDAD