Education to Action: Web of Life Erasmus Project

Project Title

Education to Action: Web of Life

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; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

The “Education to Action: Web of Life” project reunites 5 schools from North Macedonia, Romania, France, Slovenia and the Czech Republic and is addressed to students aged 12-15 years old. The international dimension will foster multiculturalism and the feeling of connectedness with the European school community. Partners have similar profiles and complementary experience which will facilitate the exchange of good practices and learning from each other. Students from all partner countries tend to spend more time indoors than outdoors, using smartphones or laptops, mostly for playing and chating. They also have unhealthy eating habits, do not practise sports and lack motivation for learning. We believe that this project will be a meaningful learning experience for them because it will connect them to the immediate reality, give them a sense of reality.
The main aim of our project is to increase awareness of 250 students from 5 EU countries about the role of humanity in protecting the natural environment during 2 years project. Through this project we want to raise awareness about the environmental problems, empower students with knowledge and skills to take an active role in protecting the environment, involve students in activities that protect the environment and encourage the use of ICT tools for exchanging project information.
Our project is designed to reach several groups, i.e.: students, teachers, school staff, parents and institutions from our local communities. The total number of our students is of 250 aged 12-15, we aim to involve as many as possible, we designed the project for 120 direct participants to international project meetings.
We planned different activities and we will bring nature into the classroom and, also, take students outside to learn because interactive learning will unlock students’ creativity and sparks their imagination. This is will also encourage interdisciplinary learning leading to incorporating new practices into the school curricula.
We planned 5 project meetings focused on different topics: Recycling, Climate change, Healthy habits, Pollution, Ecosytems. The working methodology has 3 stages: students’ research, online and offline interaction. These stages will facilitate social inclusion engaging a wide number of students to our project and develop students’ key competences.
We have combined presentations based on student’s research with practical activities. This will enable students to make connections with the real world, apply their learning and observe the interconnectedness of socio-ecological-cultural issues. The exchanges of good practices will stimulate students’ critical and creative thinking skills, which will help foster a generation of informed consumers and users. The international dimension of the project will encourage students to observe different sides of issues to for getting an understanding of the full picture when it comes to environmental issues. This will promote tolerance towards different point of views and cultural approaches.
The activities aim to encourage both students and teachers to participate actively in environmental protection. Students will interact with peers from different EU countries which will contribute to make them open to new cultures, discovering and understanding other lifestyles, customs and traditions. We want to connect our students to the world around them and run a series of activities that increase awareness of how humans impact the environment, offering hands-on experience on how to take care, improve and sustain the environment.
The project is student-centered and students will be responsible for creating the projects tangible results. This will contribute to create a culture of responsibility among students, increasing their self-motivation, self-esteem while stimulating creativity and innovation. Teachers will be resource persons to support students while creating project products and helping in the learning process. We are going to use project based learning-encouraging to students to make researches, surveys and using ICT for educational purposes.
The concrete results we would like to produce are presentations, dioramas exhibition (ecosystems), food festival, surveys, eco-campaigns, emagazine, travel guide, project logo, T-shirt, questionnaires, project webpages, promotional materials and project DVD.
Partner schools will increase their network of contacts both at a local, national and international level and increase the opportunities for running new educational initiatives. The school community will become aware of the positive impact of Erasmus projects, and we hope more teachers will be willing to initiate KA1 and KA2 projects. Students and families will increase their understanding about the benefits of direct interaction with other cultures, getting to know other EU lifestyles and traditions, and increase their desire to participate to EU projects and knowing other EU cultures.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 97094 Eur

Project Coordinator

OOU Mirce Acev Gjorce Petrov Skopje & Country: MK

Project Partners

• Zakladni skola, Velehrad, okres Uherske Hradiste
• Osnovna sola Rudolfa Ukovica Podgrad
• Collège Eléonore de Provence – Monségur 33580
• Scoala Gimnaziala Romanu Braila