DON’T WAIT TO SEE THE DESTRUCTION Erasmus Project

Project Title

DON’T WAIT TO SEE THE DESTRUCTION

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; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

The project “Don’t Wait To See The Destruction” consists of six schools realizing primary school education with the students aged between 10-15 years old. We all have come together in eTwinning to create also our eTwinning project about the environmental problems. We chose our partners based on their experince in eTwinning and Erasmus projects, their Etwinning school labels and their studies on environmental problems. Our Portugese partner has an eTwinning school label as well as Erasmus and eTwinning projects about environment. They are about to finish two projects “Acting Green” and “Water Protection”. Our partner from Macedonia has also eTwinning school label and our Latvian partner has environmental activities in their school. Our Turkish partner has no experience in Erasmus projects but eager to learn a lot. The headmaster of the Italian school has a lot of experience in coordinating Erasmus projects.
We all come from different cultural and geographical backgrounds with the same aim; that is to stop the environmental pollution, to create a more liveable earth for all the livings. For this, we have planned local activities including environmental clean up, creating a garden and a forest, recycling from waste material, visiting waste treatment centers, animal care by making nests and feeding them, creating posters, ebooks, magazines, newspapers, using webtools, writing letters to the future and group works related to the this issue. We will also create common new year calendars, have debates to promote cooperative work. In our LTT activities, we will mainly try to discover different lanscapes and endemic species of plant and animals to enable our students realize the diversity in nature, observe the beauties of nature and love it more. We will also include recycling activities from waste material in all the mobilities to see the different ways of reusing the materials. We aim to enable our students to get to learn the importance of energy and water in our lives and the ways to save them by doing lots of activities requiring them to use their digital and handcraft skills. They will create logos, ebooks, online puzzles and videos that take attention to the environmental problems.With the artworks and debates, we aim to improve their critical thinking and self expressing skills.
We mainly aim to educate our students on environmental problems, the causes of them and the solutions to stop the climate change. We want them to develop good environmental practices respecting, caring and taking an active role in preserving their nature. As we are in the 21st century, we aim to enable them to improve their digital skills while taking part in all these environmental actions. To increase their love for the nature by exploring it is also among our aims as they will struggle more when they have more love for it. We believe that we will contribute a lot for raising responsible citizens for a better future. We believe that we have no other Earth to live in.
Our project is innovative because we will observe and use methodologies applied in different countries which enables us to analyze all of them and find the best methods to apply in our environmental education. Students actively participate in all the indoor and outdoor activities. It also includes activities requring students to use their digital skills in ICT works, creativity in creating poster, calendar, pictures and letter writing activities. They carry lots of collaborative works that improve their language and presantation skills. It is innovative also for enabling the students explore different landscapes with the different endemic species living in them.
We will have lots of tangible and intangible results at the end of the project.
Tangible results: We will have digital calendars about nature, posters about environmental problems, newspaper and magazines which will also printed to be used in the future classrooms. We will have lots of dissemination materials such as online socia media platforms, twinspaces, school blogs and common webpage of the project. We will go on using all these platforms and tools after we finish our project to upload the activities about environment, to share practices with our partners and to give examples to our future students. We will go on growing our foods in our organic garden and visiting our Erasmus forest created by our students.
Intangible results: As this projects enables our students to visit other European countries and meet their peers there, it will have a huge impact on their lives.They will be motivated to continue learning English and improving their digital skills.
Students will have gained more love for their nature and motivated more to preserve their environment. They will be model responsible citizens of the future and taken as good examples by the younger future generations.We all hope that they will do good environmental actions and involve in different Erasmus programs.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 182640 Eur

Project Coordinator

I.C. “G. Giusti Sinopoli” & Country: IT

Project Partners

• OOU Petar Pop Arsov
• Cēsu 1. pamatskola
• Mehmet Zeki Yazıcı Ortaokulu
• Agrupamento de Escolas de Vialonga
• Institut de Cassà de la Selva