Eco-friendly Practices At Schools Erasmus Project

Project Title

Eco-friendly Practices At Schools

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 : Strategic Partnerships for Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Energy and resources; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

This strategic school partnership,based on Eco-friendly Practices At Schools( EFPAS) ,was successfully carried out with collaborative work of Turkish,Lithuanian,Italian,Portugese and Polish schools.

All partner schools enriched their Eco-school curicula activities such as separating, the recycling and reuse of waste materails,getting students to gain positive behaviors against to the Environment, preparing School Eco-action Plan,etc.
We got lots of opportunities to see and analyze the “Good Eco-friendly Practices” in Turkey,Lithuania,Poland,Italy and Portugal,this event contributed that the teachers improved better their own professional competences in transfering the basic Eco-friendly profits/acquisitions to their students. They gained profeciency of integrating the outdoor activities into the Eco-curricula classroom activities while teaching/telling…
-Water Cycle.
-Separation of Waste Habit
-Reuse of the used meterails
-Smart-eating habit
-Global warming and its results,etc.
-Keeping water/air clean

The students were able to catch chances to got new Eco-friendly profits and to transform their previous theoritical learnings to the practical learnings within EFPAS Project work. The Eco- sensivity flourished and grew between kindergarden age students and the upper age students.

The Key persons actively participated in this Project.They contributed that EFPAS Project was succesfully managed. The main target groups( students,teachers,parents) actively and stakeholders (civic and public organizations) directly/indirectly participated in Project work.The school administratives supported EFPAS Project and developed School Environment Management

With this transnational strategic partnership , the planned activities and the determined objectives of EFPAS Project :
A-the awareness work with determined activities-by all partners
1-Eco-day celebrations
2-Building Eco-points
3-Eco-craft work and exhibitions/stands
4-Eco-fashion Show
5-Eco-trips
6-Food festival for healthy future/ Food Map
7-Info-seminairs-by University educator staffs / Presentations-by school students
B-the improvement in quality and visibility of EFPAS Project
1-Surveys/questionairs were applied .The results were evaluated and announced.
2-Eco-citizenship Certificate for adults who participated actively in Project work
3-Visual/concrete meterails were used

C-Project dissemination activities in a Plan-by Italian school( Promotional tools( Mug,Keyring,Magnet,etc.)contributed to this process).The main dissemination tools:
1- Project website(http://ecofriendly.europole.org/)-by Italian school
2-Twinspace-by Portuguese school( user name: eco.evaluation/ password:123456).
3-Social media channels/local newspapers/ school facebookpages
4-Erasmus+boards and Eco-points

D- Project sustainability in a Plan- by all partners.During final meeting, a Strategic Sustainablity Plan was prepared;
1-Keeping each result and output of EFPAS Project in EFPAS Project file and in school archieves.
2-The accessiblity to website and Twinspace at least five years
3-Traditional celebration of Eco-day on every June 5th at schools
4-Sharing Good Practices of the Project in Google Academy,National Geography when possible.
5-Sharing the results in Erasmus+ Dissemination Platform

At the end of this two-year work , from kindergarden age group to the upper age groups the “Eco-friendly behaviors” have flourished and grown between students.Environmental Literacy in school communities increased. The number of the students who are reluctant to participate in environmental activities got lower. The participating schools’ quality,visibility,prestige grew in regional,national and transnational levels.They got adequate experience and expertise to sustain Eco-friendly Practices for healthy environment.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 71900 Eur

Project Coordinator

19 Mayis ilkokulu & Country: TR

Project Partners

• Agrupamento de Escolas de Moure e Ribeira do Neiva
• IC Madonna di Campagna-San Michele
• Szkola Podstawowa nr 2 im. Kontradmirala Wlodzimierza Steyera
• Panevezio r. Karsakiskio Strazdelio pagrindine mokykla