Our Climate Our Future Erasmus Project

Project Title

Our Climate Our Future

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: Environment and climate change; Agriculture, forestry and fisheries

Project Summary

The coordinator of the project “Our Climate Our Future” is Slovakia, and its partners are Greece, Latvia, Turkey and Italy. The target group of the project is students and teachers aged 9-12 years. The duration of the project is 24 months. 1.5°C of heat has crucial importance for sustainable development and poverty prevention.

Currently, commitments under Paris Agreement are not sufficient enough to limit global warming to 1.5°C. The problem is that today’s students will be tasked with managing the impact of tomorrow’s climate change, and consequently jobs that require science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) skills will already have increased. At this point, in order to build a sustainable future, it is urgently necessary to take immediate action with international and local cooperation, include climate change education into the academic schedule, and develop climate change learning-teaching materials.

Our objectives are:

– Encourage innovative teaching approaches to integrate climate change education into schools and strengthen the climate change curriculum.

-Starting from an early age, preparing students for the reality of climate change and the world they will soon inherit.

-Raising awareness of climate change improvement through media, networking and partnerships, and in particular impacting on the wider community on the importance of 1.5 degrees.

-To became climate-friendly leading schools to combat the climate crisis through sustainable strategic actions and to spreas inspiring and practical learning experiences to other schools.

-To make students become responsible individuals who produce sustainable intelligent solutions and maket hem equipped with 21st century skills.

-To strengthen the Professional profiles of teachers with STEM practices, mutual knowledge flow and Project experiences that can make a difference on the young minds against the climate crisis.

4 students (9-12 years) and 2 teachers from each partner school will actively participate in each step of the 5-day LTT activities. At the end of two years, we planned a total of 80 students and 40 staff mobility.

The activities we plan to achieve the objectives are: Exchange of best practices, STEM workshops, prepaaring earth toast, visiting a natural resource specialists, preparing exhibiton space of the cartoon characters, observing to prevent freezing of seedlings, searching and presenting the impact of climate change, designing renewable cars, producing new papers with waste papers, comparing a 30-year temperature average graph, visiting to the meteorological station, learning through a carbon cycle game, to attract the attention of the local community by protesting climate change together with parents and environmental organizations, making simulations about the effects of the greenhouse, learning careers to fight global warming, visiting the Mersin Chamber of Agriculture and attending the seminar with subject “the impact of global climate change on the economy”, preparing a declaration against global warming, visiting a factory which runs by renewable energy, finding solutions to reduce food waste, creating a 3D life cycle, examining the compost production and usage area in the school yard of Greek school, organizing a “Climate Change Through STEM” fair, learning converted used cooking oil into biodiesel, finding solutions for the energy sustainability of school buildings, making environmentally friendly cleaning materials, participating in the kahoot quiz on global warming, World Day activities, online meetings between students of participating schools on Twin Space platform.

Project managers in partner schools from the implementation of the project; the project coordinator is responsible throughout the project. Project managers will follow the 24-month work schedule. he Project team of each partner school will meet one a month in order to avoid any problems in the Project. Project managers will send an evaluation report to the coordinator every 4 months via email. Collaboration and communication between partners will take place via Facebook Project group, whatsapp group and email. Therefore, everyone will follow these channels frequently. Communication between students will take place through Twin Space online meetings, communication and cooperation with stakeholders will take place through visits and telephone calls. In the Project process, the coordinator monitors the signs of risk with a “plan-apply-check-act” approach and applies the intervention plan when necessary.Expected results are;

-Schools will try to become more sustainable through actions to reduce climate change. The partner schools will improve their quality with a new curriculum that is flexible, up-to-date and supports STEM skills across the European dimension, with a more effective curriculum and better equipped staff. Teachers will strengthen their Professional profiles by observing examples of good practice, sharing knowledge

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 132180 Eur

Project Coordinator

Zakladna skola s materskou skolou Sarisske Michalany & Country: SK

Project Partners

• Osmaniye Ilkokulu
• DIREZIONE DIDATTICA “III CIRCOLO BALDO BONSIGNORE”
• Vergales pamatskola
• <> 2nd primary school of Giannitsa