Gifts of nature Erasmus Project

Project Title

Gifts of 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 : Strategic Partnerships for school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Health and wellbeing; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; Social/environmental responsibility of educational institutions

Project Summary

“Gifts of nature” has been a two-year project with the aim of develop a new way of looking at the nature among students, teachers, schools and local communities. The goal was to raise, not only ecological awareness that includes protection of resources essential for human kind, but also awareness about wealth we have in our surroundings in various herbs, plants, fruits, vegetables and trees. For the last two years partners from five schools from Spain, Turkey, Slovakia, Romania and Croatia have been taking part in monthly activities to help students recognize the value of nature and the need of sustainable development.
The project has included 3 transnational meetings involving 20 teachers, 3 short exchanges of students with 75 participants and a last short exchange of students -forced to be held virtually because of the pandemic- with 47 participants.
During the whole project, students have taken part in collaborative activities aimed at developing their knowledge of the beneficial properties of natural products and the way they can get advantage of them. They have learnt about environmental problems, the European value of our natural heritage and the importance of nature in our daily life. They have analyzed their natural surroundings, boosted their cooking skills, learnt to create natural and promote products, to differenciate natural products from industrial ones and understand the benefits of having a healthy active lifestyle. They have exchanged information and activities with students from other countries and learnt about different cultures and approaches to nature. Most importantly, students have learnt that they can have a real positive impact in their own lives and the lives of their communities.
The monthly activities, the short exchanges of students and the dissemination activities, have set the ground for students to collaborate transnationally, exchange their experiences, develop their communication skills and create new materials which have been important for meeting the project goals and will also serve as a base for future activities and projects to come.
Not only students, teachers, partner schools and local communities have also benefited from their involvement in the project. The activities themselves, the teachers’ transnational meetings, the exchange of methodological and cross curricular approaches, the short exchanges of students, the collaborative work between partner schools, the participation of all target groups in the project, as well as the dissemination activities taken to promote the project have also positively impact on all the agents involved in the partner schools and their local communities.
In summary, Gifts of Nature has directly involved around 20 teachers, more than 200 students and their families from 5 different partner schools in 5 different countries, promoting environmental protection and healthy lifestyle and having a positive impact on their own centres and the school staff, the local agents and authorities and in the end, their own communities.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 115148,5 Eur

Project Coordinator

Centro San Viator & Country: ES

Project Partners

• ÖZEL YENİMAHALLE FİNAL ORTAOKULU
• Zakladna skola Bezrucova
• Osnovna skola Ivana Mazuranica
• SCOALA GIMNAZIALA “SF. DUMITRU” CRAIOVA