Researching from the school library to improve the environment. Erasmus Project

Project Title

Researching from the school library to improve the environment.

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 Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Energy and resources; Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development); Teaching and learning of foreign languages

Project Summary

Project “Researching from the school library to improve the environment” has been based on the cooperation and innovation for Good Practices takeover. The project has involved 7 educational institutions from different countries (Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Spain and Turkey) with around 2000 participants, including 200 children with special needs, aged 3-15 and 110 experienced teachers of these seven schools.
The priorities of this Project were:
Developing basic and transversal skills using innovative methods.
Reducing disparities in learning outcomes affecting disadvantaged learners.
High quality learning opportunities
The main objectives were:
1) To use the school libraries as educational stable resources to create environments in which English language was used in an easier and motivational way.
2) To obtain the improvement of the communicative skills of our students working on ecological issues.
3) To achieve the utilization of the English language as a working language in scope of a multicultural society.
4) To improve our educational practices in order to get better the four basic skills (speaking, reading, listening and writing) in English incorporating them into the Linguistic Project.
This project was addressed to the following topics:
– Energy and resources.
– Teaching and learning of foreign languages.
– Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development).
We chose this subject because we believed that English is one of the most important subjects to teach, because our students must live in a global world. We also thought that teaching English cannot be done in an isolated way: it must be related to important subjects in that global world such as ecology. We thought as well, that this way of working, sharing good practices from different countries, could lead teachers to improve their professional skills and the ability to introduce a variety of unconventional methods and ways to teach. In adittion to this, Ecology and Library could involve all curriculum subjects and promote the participation of all schools Staff.
Our aim was to achieve the objectives of the Project by cooperating and working actively together with local institutions, teachers, parents, families and children.
The teachers attended four workshops where they shared good practices and enhanced the knowledge about the ecological issues as following:
1. Protected Ecosystems- Italy.
2. Recycling- Romania.
3. Responsible water consumption-.Hungary
4. Renewable Energies-.Italy
We also attended to three transnational project meetings in Spain, Croatia and Czech Republic.
New methodological materials for learning/teaching in this area have been innovated and they have encouraged the environmental awaraness.
The materials have been widely disseminated so they were available to the general public and specially to teachers across Europe.
The main activities carried on were:
– Surveys and questionnaires.
– Little creature creation.
– Presentations by experts.
– Different visits to interesting places related to all the topics.
– World “Important Day” Celebrations.
– Making different manual works. (Terrarium, models, water filter…)
– Dissemination Days.
– Common webpage to upload and download materials .
– Using different ways to evaluate the project results and its impact on the school communities.
With this project we wanted to offer our students the opportunity of having a qualified education, improving our methods of teaching, sharing good practises, developed by different partners of this project.
Therefore, we are completely sure we have been able to get environmentally responsible citizens who are going to use different formats and ways to get to the information and this will be very useful for the future.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 127600 Eur

Project Coordinator

C.E.I.P. SANTA JULIANA & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Zakladni skola a Materska skola Stara Ves nad Ondrejnici, prispevkova organizace
• Kossuth Lajos Gimnázium és Általános Iskola
• Osnovna skola Hugo Badalic
• GRADINITA CU PROGRAM PRELUNGIT NR.2
• YAHYALAR DURALI BEZCI ILKOKULU
• Istituto Comprensivo Gioacchino Rossini