No Need For Another Toy, Water is Our Essential Joy ! Erasmus Project

Project Title

No Need For Another Toy, Water is Our Essential Joy !

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Environment and climate change; Access for disadvantaged; Social/environmental responsibility of educational institutions

Project Summary

Water scarcity, the world will face with in near future, is the basic study of our project.
2020 Europe’s Growth Strategy lays a great emphasis on efficient use of the sources,so, our target is raising awareness of our environmental sensivity and efficiency on protection of water sources.(https://ec.europa.eu/info/business-economy-euro/economic-and-fiscal-policy-coordination/eu-economic-governance-monitoring-prevention-correction/european-semester/framework/europe-2020-strategy_en)
Word Water Foundation (WWF)declares Turkey as under water stress and it will have been called as water poor country before 2030.
Especially Konya,known as the granary of Turkey, has lost the level 1 to 15m in 2007 and 14.3m in last 33 years.(http://d2hawiim0tjbd8.cloudfront.net/downloads/turkiyenin_ekolojik_ayak_izi_raporu.pdf)
Not only our country, but also some European countries are worried about lack of water and water resources pollution.47% of the participants (almost the half of them) in the survey of EU25 by Eurobarometer have emphasized their worry about water pollution and this rate may increase to 71% for individual countries.Water problem is one of the five basic environment problem for them. This is one of the reasons of EU’s priorities to save water. EU’s New European Water Policy is an action plan for recleaning the dirty water, consuming reasonably and saving clean water by including public.
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/water/water-framework/info/intro_en.htm
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/water/participation/notes_en.htm
Within the scope of these motivation elements,we have started an E-Twinning project on water consumption theme internationally.(https://twinspace.etwinning.net/51900/home)
However, we aim to imply this project in real by including students and teachers, especially in disadvantaged areas, to show the importance of education at early ages and to tackle with the negative effects of early school leaving such as antisocial behaviours,negative viewpoints towards schools, illiteracy on theoric, social or environmental subjects etc. by the methodologies of learning with entertaining implementations, multilateral learning strategies, learning on dramas/role-plays/simple simulations, learning based on problem/implementation etc.
ALL PARTNERS’ SURVEY RESULTS: (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1xCemlE099fHDcG6T-L5cm96WzGCez7ug)
We aim to create the awareness about that ‘water resources are not endless’ and we follow the motto that ‘Water is the Common Property of All the World!’
All choosing criterias/qualities of the participants and meetings have been mentioned on section ‘LTT’ and ‘Timetable’ in details.
If we summarize our activities; various visual,musical, cultural activities, planting and watering at school, Creating a website and a project page on E-Twinning,Facebook,Moodle, Erasmus+ Projects Results platforms,designing logo, posters and slogans, creating a team of water in every school “Water Watchers”, various water games, seminars about reasonable water consumption and lack of water, dissemination(exhibitions, newsletters, a short film for public awareness etc),analysing the water quality and the researches for solutions, writing postcards among students and parents abroad collaboratively for sharing experiences and ideas about saving water, Using educational Internet programmes for implementing activities, Creating a simple Pedia, E-book on water theme, Observational trips to natural water resources etc. A carnival on water theme,Making models etc.
For process management; all coordinators will use Planning, Configuration,Preparing process calendar, Project Coordination, Documantation, Quality, Procurement, Reporting Methods.
For measurement; all partner school teachers will use competitions,quizes,surveys,rubrics, observations, absolute and relative evaluations, level defining evaluation, ordering and classifying evaluations.
Impact; we will plan to power up social clubs about natural resources. According to the efficiency of the club activities and reports in behavioral change about the usage of water, we will present our concrete outputs to relevant institutions to make a new point of view on education at an early age.
We are also combating with obligatory drop-outs because of traditional agriculture practices in disadvantaged places. As it is highlighted in Europe 2020 Strategies, we need decreasing the rate of students who leave schools early under %10. Moreover, we will try to accomplish our aims and priorities by;
* Cooperation with other schools abroad and transparency,
* Stronger relationships of participants,
* Better teamwork between management, administration departments, teachers, students,
* Improvement of support and participation of parents to school life,
* Participation of local stakeholders to education (local and regional authorities,companies, etc)
* Developing digital skills of all participants,
* Understanding the concept of EU,
* Tolerance to different cultures.

Project Website

http://www.needforwater.net/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 133818,22 Eur

Project Coordinator

Kizoren Somuncu Baba Imam Hatip Ortaokulu & Country: TR

Project Partners

• Agrupamento de Escolas António Correia Oliveira
• Gymnasio Gastounis
• Stredni zdravotnicka skola a Vyssi odborna skola zdravotnicka, Plzen, Karlovarska 99
• Istituto Comprensivo Pascoli/CTP
• Osnovno Uchilishte “Hristo Botev”