MED Educ – European network for marine environment education in the Mediterranean Erasmus Project

Project Title

MED Educ – European network for marine environment education in the Mediterranean

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: Environment and climate change; Agriculture, forestry and fisheries; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

The MED EDUC project is the result of transnational and multidisciplinary cooperation between 7 organizations active in the field of education for sustainable development in the Mediterranean. It aims the creation of a series of European educational resources for colleges and high schools focused on the discovery of the coastal and marine environment in the Mediterranean: an educational reference system for teachers, an activity guide for teachers and students, and an online resource center capitalizing the activities, providing additional educational materials based on experience feedback covering the entire Mediterranean Basin.

The project is primarily focused on pupils, middle and high school teachers, and environmental educators from Europe-Mediterranean working in schools. It brings them new educational tools focused on the specific issues of environmental protection in the Mediterranean Sea (pollution and waste, mass tourism, over fishing, biodiversity loss, coastal erosion, climate change …) helping to understand the phenomena, to identify the challenges for the future and to contribute to the collective search for solutions.
The project is based on the recognition of a lack of environmental education resources specifically focused on the Mediterranean Sea and analyzing the issues and environmental problems under the prism of human/nature cohabitation.

The MED EDUC educational resources will be produced in the frame of a high valued transnational, intercultural and multidisciplinary cooperation, combining multiple expertise from the world of formal and non-formal education and the economic and social world. These resources will address the issue of environmental education skills and competencies from multiple focus:
– With the creation of a MED EDUC reference system for middle and high school teachers in all disciplines, the project will reinforce the integration of environmental education, focused on the Mediterranean Sea, in the fundamental disciplines, with proposals for activities and content for all age groups from high school to high school and for all subject areas (science, humanities, literary, artistic, physical education, civic education),
– This reference system, and the MED EDUC activity guide associated with it, will also contribute to reinforcing the emergence of multidisciplinary educational projects, one of the flagship issue of formal education, by proposing activities integrating different themes and different pedagogical approaches,
– By dealing with environmental issues from the perspective of sustainable development, human / nature coexistence in the Mediterranean basin, and combining both the analytical approach (understanding of phenomena) and the invitation to action and projects by and for young people, MED EDUC will also contribute to enrich the field of citizenship education for young Europeans,
– By focusing on Euro-Mediterranean cooperation and the intercultural approach to understanding and acting on environmental issues, and promoting exchanges and cooperation (the Mediterranean Sea), MED EDUC will contribute to the emergence of a Mediterranean citizenship of young people based on exchange and mutual understanding, while the Mediterranean basin is today a major subject of social, ethnic and religious tensions.

The project also supports the idea of “opening values and open-mindedness”:
– Opening of middle schools and colleges on their environment: to get to know one’s place of life, to bring into harmony school disciplines and everyday life
– Opening of institutions to their environment: the project partnership includes schools, environmental education centers, environmental and cultural private companies, local authorities and research centers, and the MED EDUC educational activities will be based to a large extent on mobilization of resources and local partners around schools
– International openness with intercultural educational tools, reflecting the diversity of problems, contexts, approaches all around the Mediterranean basin and highlighting common features and territorial specificities
– International openness always with the emergence of a MED EDUC Mediterranean educational community that will bring together project partners, associated partners, and all those who wish to do so at the end of the project.

Project Website

https://mededuc.eu/en/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 278814,02 Eur

Project Coordinator

U Marinu & Country: FR

Project Partners

• CONSELL INSULAR DE MALLORCA
• CDE Petra Patrimonia
• Istituto di Istruzione Superiore “G. Garibaldi”
• Med.O.R.O. scarl
• Osnovna skola Pucisca
• HELLENIC CENTRE FOR MARINE RESEARCH