Plastic – no thanks! – Plastic in our everyday life Erasmus Project

Project Title

Plastic – no thanks! – Plastic in our everyday life

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: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Environment and climate change; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

Today environmental awareness can no longer only be important for individuals. With increasing pollution, it is our duty to raise everyone’s awareness and to improve the situation. Today plastic is a material that is used in a variety of ways in industry and in everyday life. This project aims to inform students about the production, use, reuse and difficult disposal of plastic and at the same time to make them aware of the often senseless use of plastic in their own environment in families and schools. They will become motivated to be careful and critical with polluting substances in general and with plastic in a special way and to learn to avoid them to a large extent.
At the same time they work together with students from other European countries, learn to communicate and to understand the differences between themselves and the others. They improve their language and their ICT skills, become self-confident and train their team spirit.
Schools from Sweden, Spain, the Czech Republic and Germany are involved in the project. Students are between 13 and 16 years old and English is their communication language.
Five international meetings are planned. The first will serve as a kick-off meeting for teachers. All relevant dates, agreements, forms and the exact project schedule will be drawn up. In addition, all teachers involved will be instructed in eTwinning and its platform. eTwinning is used as a communication platform and at the same time as a source of materials and resources.
The four further international meetings are planned with students. They will present their previously developed work to the partner students and receive new impulses from them. In preparation for the international meetings, the students will work on the project topic at home, collect material, develop plans, gather new impulses on excursions and meetings with experts and process them into presentations, which they will show to their partners in English when they visit a school abroad.
Together, all schools will design a brochure that provides information on the use and disposal of plastic and has an attachment to ideas and addresses, where to buy plastic-free and what options for upcycling are available.
The project is expected to raise awareness among all involved, i.e. students, teachers, families, friends, of the fact where, how often and why we use plastic and where it can be replaced by other substances. This awareness will also change the students’ and families’ consumer behavior and lead to plastic-free or reduced shopping. In the long run this project will expand the environmental awareness of students, families, teachers and friends. This awareness will then extend to other areas of environmental problems and will have its positive effects far beyond school. The students will become self-confident, open-minded and tolerant citizens and future voters.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 125803 Eur

Project Coordinator

Kastell-Realschule & Country: DE

Project Partners

• IES SAN MATÍAS
• Skiftingehus
• Zakladni skola Trebic Benesova 585