Going for great, genius, green generation Erasmus Project

Project Title

Going for great, genius, green generation

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: Social/environmental responsibility of educational institutions; Pedagogy and didactics

Project Summary

Environment destruction caused by humans is a global problem, and this is a problem that is getting worse with every day. According to the latest data by year 2050, the global human population is expected to grow by 2 billion people, thereby reaching a level of 9.6 billion people.The human effects on Earth can be seen in many different ways. Surely, we cannot stop ozone layer thinning but there are ways how young generation can be taught to care about the environment.Our young generation has to be taught sustainability.
The project ” Going for great, green, genius generation or 5G” will focus on a couple of keystones:
* researching the situation of environmental protection in each project partner country
* broadening students’ knowledge on different ways how to protect environment
* promoting joint work in the local communities to protect environment
* providing teachers with modern teaching methods and materials on environmental
education
* involving students in practical hands on activities to protect environment
* creating educational activities for teaching environmental protection at school
* compiling an e-book of the created educational activities
* raising students’ skills of team-teaching.
The main objectives of the project are :
* to improve the capacity of the partner school staff based on the needs of the 21st
century to modify their teaching methods on environmental protection
* to identify and analyze good practices of the partner schools in the field of teaching
nature protection skills to the students
* to promote joint work in the local communities to protect environment
* to create educational activities on different nature saving themes
• to pilot the created activities in all the partner schools by involving students as peer
teachers
• to strengthen mutual understanding among European nations through getting to know
different traditions of the participating countries
* to compile an e- book ” Going for Great, Green, Genius Generation or 5G ” where all the
created activities will be collected
The participants of the project will be primary school students aged 13 – 16, different subject teachers and local communities. As there are activities where all the students, teachers and parents will be partners, the project will involve a large number of the community people. 6 learning/teaching/training activities are planned, all of them consisting of :
* analysis of the situation with a certain environment protection issue – energy saving,
water saving, ecologically friendly materials, deforestation, recycling, waste disposal
* practical hands on activities to protect environment – green workshops, visits in
ecologically friendly farms, games on green lifestyle, sunset and sunrise festivals, green
diet workshop, forest research and planting,etc.
* creation of educational activities on environment protection theme to be used in lessons and applying different teaching methods
* international evenings where different aspects of partner country culture connected with
environment protection will be demonstrated.
The project results and experiences will be disseminated to the following audience :
* participants as they will see the project results in practice
* teachers involved in the project activities will disseminate the results in their subject
methods groups
* the involved parents and local community
* local community and neighboring schools as they will be informed about the created
educational activities on environment protection
The following media will be used for disseminating the results:
* local press
* school journals
* school websites
* newsletters to families
* Europe Day at school, open to all the local community
* organization of workshops for younger students of the area.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 196281 Eur

Project Coordinator

Zentas Maurinas Grobinas novada vidusskola & Country: LV

Project Partners

• 4 Gymnasio of Thessaloniki
• IIS Liceo “Bocchi-Galilei”
• IES Mar Serena
• Gymnasium Aradippou
• COLLEGE LA CHATOIRE