Let’s save the paradise gardens of Europe. Erasmus Project

Project Title

Let’s save the paradise gardens of Europe.

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: Natural sciences; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

The main tasks of the project are to: influence on students’ behavior using an art therapy method and develop cooperation among the schools, enrich teaching innovative skills, get to know natural, cultural diversity of the project countries, get acquainted with bio- diversity of natural eco -systems, improve ITC and communicative skills, strengthen self-esteem, create an active European citizenship, develop a sense of empathy, respect , include students with special education needs. In the project an emphasis is put on getting to know natural eco-systems and undertaking actions to protect them. We ask a question ‘’What can I do?! ‘’Students at the age 10 -14 and the teachers from the partner schools will take part in the project. We are going to engage also pupils at the age 7-9, preschoolers and the local communities connected with the project schools.The project subject is a protection of natural ecosystems and applying parts of art therapy that will influence on mental, social and emotional pupils’ development. It will also allow, to influence on a change of unacceptable students’ behaviours. Taking part in the project enables the participants to develop their linguistic and communicative competences. Participating in the project is a chance for students with variety of intellectual and emotional disability. It will enable them to be successful, present their abilities among local and school community. The project “Let us save the paradise gardens of Europe” is aimed at the pupils, also the disabled ones, the teachers from European schools and the local communities connected with them. The subject of this enterprise is to get familiar and present primeval landscapes, their protection and nature’s influence on a human being’s emotional development. Nature with its richness of sounds, colours ,flora and fauna is a safe place soothing negative emotions and ideal to influence on the students’ behavior. We will show the beauty of nature and its impact on our emotions, in the same way we will try to affect our students in order to limit socially unacceptable behaviours, raise their ecological awareness and show that the changes should start from themselves. We want the project participants to show their creativity and creative interpretation in this field. The project participants will be acquainted with the beauty of nature in the partner countries and its positive influence. We will hand over a message:’’ Let us save the paradise gardens of Europe”. The beauty of the places crucial for us in terms of cultural, cognitive and emotional value will be presented. We will focus on discovering and getting familiar with those places as well as showing their role in a human being emotional development and nature’s impact on eliminating unacceptable behaviors,We will also propose ways of protecting these areas . We will carry out educational classes with applying parts of the art therapy with a participation of the teachers and students from the partner countries. The teachers will exchange their experiences, prepare innovative lesson summaries, also for disabled students ,which will be mutually carried out. The students will improve their English skills owing to individual contacts with the peers and ICT devices. Art- literary activities, vernissages, happenings, educational projects, workshops, educational trips, ecological and language activities, will be held in order to get information relating to nature ‘s impact on our emotions and get acquainted with the ways of the nature protection. We will aspire to develop abilities to recognize endemic and introduced species, express and recognize emotions by using nature’s colours and sounds. The participants will also get to know the most outstanding artistic and musical works referring to nature beauty. Art will be used to express ourselves emotionally. A mutual dependence of a human being and the nature will be shown as well. During the project task realization we will focus on improving the competences that are crucial for getting to know and understanding the surrounding reality. The project participants will be got acquainted with the art therapy method and using it as a therapeutic tool in order to limit students’ behaviors that are not acceptable in societies. Using the richness of nature, combining it with the methods of the art therapy will allow the project participants not only to recognise, control their emotions, raise their ecological awareness but also act better in the environment and among the society that will contribute to better knowledge acquisition. The project tasks realization will be simultaneously performed in the project schools. Each partner will enrich the project of their own ideas that will contribute to realising project assumptions in a better way.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 150370 Eur

Project Coordinator

Szkola Podstawowa Nr 23 im. Marii Dabrowskiej w Elblagu & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Agrupamento de Escolas Gomes Teixeira, Armamar
• Liceul Teoretic ELF
• Istituto Comprensivo Battipaglia Salvemini
• Opshtinsko Osnovno Uchilishte Dimkata Angelov Gaberot s. Vatasha, Macedonia
• Ventspils 2,pamatskola