ICT – a tool for environment Erasmus Project

Project Title

ICT – a tool for environment

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 adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Environment and climate change; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

The Project “ICT – SOS for the environment” was inspired by a document developed by the EC titled A “European Green Deal” which is to enable Europeans to benefit from a sustainable ecological transformation. It emphasizes the special role of the citizen who must become the creator of changes for sustainable development. Today, we are increasingly more aware that it is from civic attitudes and involvement in activities with a social dimension, such as environmental protection, climate change and responsible consumption, whether the world (civilization) can cope with the ecological crisis.

The project is a joint initiative of partnerships among non-governmental organizations from Poland – AgriNatura Foundation, Hungary – Védegylet Egyesület, Moldova – ProEntrense and the environmental advisory office Sabine Bruckmann from Germany. Each partner deals with non-formal and informal education for adult learners on topics relevant to eco-development, including environmental protection, climate change, and civil society. The main group of recipients of the implemented projects are inhabitants of rural areas. The partners’ own analyzes and official research data have shown that one of the most important and more difficult ecological problems in these regions is waste, and one of the reasons for this is the low ecological awareness of the region’s inhabitants, especially of the elderly.
The partnership will develop educational content that will raise their level of knowledge on topics related to the problem of waste, waste management, sorting and, above all, minimization. This knowledge will be related to knowledge about social and civic competences. It is necessary, especially at the level of local communities, which (according to sociological research) are more passive in civic attitudes. The data also shows that ICT, even for people 60+, is increasingly becoming a tool used in everyday life to communicate. Therefore, it can also be useful for finding information or reacting to irregularities.
The partnership, based on its experience and in-depth knowledge about the situations in its respective countries, will develop educational content adequate to the needs of each country, which will complement the knowledge of educators / trainers further transferred to the target group – local rural communities in partner countries, in particular people 55+.
Project partners came to the conclusion that international exchange of experience, learning about the situation and needs of other countries, learning about the best solutions will facilitate understanding that garbage is a global problem, but that its solution depends on local activities, decisions and choices of each citizen.
Project milestones are international meetings (4 in total, one in each partner’s country), which aim to exchange experiences, know-how, learn best practices and work on results.
At the local level, each partner will conduct workshops using the project’s results. It is estimated that a total of 295 people will participate in them. A wide audience will be achieved through websites, social media, cooperation networks and participation of partners in events related to the project topic.
The final results of the project will be:
1. Two Guides: “Waste is a personal factor – choices and decisions to minimize / segregate – ICT tool for monitoring garbage” and “Waste is an economic / political / social factor – ICT as a tool for participation in public life”
2. Educational video – composting : duty and benefits
3.Database of best practices
4. Well-established international partnership
5. Development of a follow up project by the partners
Guidebooks, best practices database (pdf) and educational videos will be posted on the partners’ websites (in the language of the partners) and available to interested parties. They will be included in the partners’ curriculum, used in training sessions or lectures.
Experts, trainers and educators conducting trainings will participate in the project activities, the latter will include the results developed during the project (guides, databases, video) in their educational offers.
Depending on the situation and possibilities, the partnership will use ICT in organizing meetings and education in a virtual way (zoom, Google sites) preparing few sessions and also study visits online.
Educational activities will be ‘lifelong learning’. A lasting effect of the project will be an increased knowledge of the target group on topics related to competences and civic attitudes in connection with the issue of waste management and reduction, but also an increased level of knowledge and skills of the partnering organizations and an extensive network of contacts and cooperation.
All results in English and the languages of the partners will be published on the partners’ websites and on the Erasmus + Project Results Platform and will be available to the public.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 48200 Eur

Project Coordinator

Fundacja Rolniczej Roznorodnosci Biologicznej AgriNatura & Country: PL

Project Partners

• ProEntranse
• luXX e.V.
• VEDEGYLET EGYESULET