Save your environment, save your future Erasmus Project

Project Title

Save your environment, save your 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; Early childhood education and care; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills

Project Summary

MOTIVATION
Since reading an essay entitled biophilia, the idea of the project arose: that people are naturally attracted against their natural world. However, numerous parents in the 21st century will challenge this hypothesis, when they witness their children show a strong preference for sitting in front of a television in a sofa over playing outdoors. It is estimated that the typical European child spends 4 to 7 minutes every day in unorganized outdoor play, and more than 7 hours per day in front of a computer.
The project includes two key activities in its core; on one side, it will take children outside and on the other side it will teach them specific responsibility toward nature and the world beyond.
Based on all these reasons and goals, as Europe’s primary school teachers, we have come together and created this study to implement a comprehensive curriculum to connect our children with nature, to make them excited in the outdoors, to create and implement easy and realistic entertaining practices within the school systems.
We’ve established 50 specific outdoor plays (10 for each LTTA), as primary school teachers would come together in 5 LTTAs and organize workshops with their techniques, strategies, resources and formulation to create such plays appropriate for schools. They will introduce and apply these plays in their schools upon returning home from the mobility and they will integrate them into their curriculum of our schools.
OBJECTIVES
O1. To share experiences and practices related to teaching of outdoor games between primarylevel teachers from various European countries
O2. To promote the production of outdoor playing teaching resources appropriate for schools
O3. To develop the environmental awareness among children
O4. To provide children with individual and social commitment and responsibility
O5. To enhance the role and position of the school inside the local communities
O6. To popularize an active citizenship and social/civic responsibility
The project events and activities will allow the children to play outdoors and show the children individual responsibilities for nature and hence the environment. Therefore, they are going to be more aware of preserving nature.
PARTICIPANTS
The project firstly addresses kids/children aged between 4-11 as main beneficiaries via their teachers who will study and work out the practical activities in the LTTAs, which will then be implemented locally. Teachers will be the second beneficiaries and they will be the main actors for running the activities at first hand as instructors. 5 teachers from each partner school will take part in each LTTA. 50 teachers will benefit as direct participants and minimum 150 teachers as indirect ones. Altogether, the dissemination events will affect around 500 teachers. 150 aged between 4-11 are actively and directly involved in the activities
ACTIVITIES AND METHODOLOGY
We’ve established 50 specific outdoor plays (10 for each LTTA), as primary school teachers would come together in 5 LTTAs and organize workshops with their techniques, strategies, resources and formulation to create such plays appropriate for schools. They will introduce and apply these plays in their schools upon returning home from the mobility and they will integrate them into their curriculum.
RESULTS AND IMPACT
The outdoor plays created and uploaded to the virtual platforms during project events and will be used by all partners after completion – this will increase the schools ‘resource base. New courses for pupils may be created further on, such as using the materials produced in the project.
The project also involves the growth of the human resources, which is both useful in the short and long term. Project builds partnerships between teachers and their colleagues in Europe and offers them the ability to create potential ideas for future project. All participating teachers improve their knowledge of other systems of education and can use the best practices in their own regional contexts.
There will be increased cooperation among teachers within the same school and this would increase the intensity of intra-institutional ties. It will establish an optimistic atmosphere and greater collaboration and will help all of the school’s actors.
Once outdoor activities are used, the lessons will become more appealing to pupils. That means children will feel more inspired to study. They will also grow a sense of responsibility and continue to take a more active role within their culture, supporting themselves, the identity of the school and the society itself. In coming years, students and their instructors will plan environmental education programs. They may also arrange after-school activities for pupils and allow the involved citizenship normal activity at school level.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 144500 Eur

Project Coordinator

Szkola Podstawowa nr 23 im. gen. J. Bema & Country: PL

Project Partners

• SCOALA GIMNAZIALA NICOLAE IORGA GRINDU
• CEIP El Rubial
• Kauno lopšelis – darželis “Pagrandukas”
• ATA ILKOKULU