Solutions for Environmental Polution Erasmus Project

Project Title

Solutions for Environmental Polution

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: Energy and resources; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; Social/environmental responsibility of educational institutions

Project Summary

CONTEXT
While the humans want to dominate the nature and lead a comfortable life, they sometimes end up destroying it involuntarily. Numerous dystopian films produced in the past decade are meant to give us a nightmarish insight into what the world of the future may look like unless we start taking care of it. Therefore, through this project, we want to raise students’ awareness about the environmental problems that are produced and perpetuated by human beings that have negative long-term effects on our planet. We want them to be responsible citizens and work towards the goal of leaving a safe and clean world for future generations. We want to turn our schools into green schools in which environmental policies are implemented and respected by everybody. Last but not least, we want to set a model for our communities and determine other schools to take action in the field of ecology.

OBJECTIVES
-To exchange ideas and practices with other European countries in terms of environmental issues
-To familiarize students with environmental issues and concepts like sustainable development, renewable sources of energy
-To raise students self-learning and autonomy by doing research, collecting and presenting data
-To improve students’ creativity, critical thinking and analytical thinking
-To improve students’ self-confidence in new environments, to foster their adaptability and flexibility
-To enable the development of participants’ intercultural competences, the awareness of shared European values
-To improve communication, interpersonal, social skills in multicultural contexts
-To promote social inclusion of students facing all kinds of difficulties
-To empower and determine students to get involved in their community life
-To enable teachers’ development through communication and practice sharing with their European peers

PARTICIPANTS
The project is aimed mainly at pupils, who will be involved in all the stages of the project – preparation, exchanges, dissemination and exploitation activities. The target group of pupils is made of 1000 students aged 14-18. They are a mixture of nationalities, social and economic backgrounds, religions, mixed abilities students, both high and low achievers, rural and urban areas, VET or general training students. This is what makes the project so interesting. The fact that we can observe one another and learn from each other about our problems, interests, career paths, opportunities.
Out of these, we will select 100 students to participate directly in the exchanges.

MAIN ACTIVITIES AND METHODOLOGY
C1 – Water is Life (transdisciplinary approach, water as a source of life, water shortage)
C2 – Keep our environment clean (recycling, waste management)
C3 – Breathe and Let Breathe (air pollution, air quality)
C4 – Global warming issues and renewable energy for sustainable development
C5 – Take action to build a clean future
In order to prepare for exchanges, students will do research, interview school mates, parents, acquaintances about the environmental issue addressed. Also, students talk to local authorities and local NGOs in order to see what the local and national policies are, how schools can get involved. These findings are shared with partners during exchanges. The exchanges include activities and presentations developed by students for students, but also teacher coordinated activities in which students work together in order to do topic-related STEM projects. For C5, sts implement and share environmental awareness campaigns.
RESULTS
Our results consist of initial and final evaluation documents, students’ surveys applied in the local community, online quizzes for other school students, brochures about environment issues, presentations of schools, countries and environment problems, statistics and reports, STEM projects, flyers about recycling and responsible use of water, campaign posters and methodology, videos, pictures, dissemination platforms and tools.
IMPACT
The project is expected to result in numerous positive changes at the level of all partner schools. First of all, the relationship between teachers and students will improve, and so will the relationship between the school and the parents. Parents will become more aware of the key role that the school plays in developing the future citizens that will contribute to the development of the community. Local authorities will see the schools involved as a dialogue partner and will support the students’ initiatives, both the ones in the project and the future ones, because we expect that students will develop new initiatives and will become active in their community. NGOs will become our partners and we will develop future projects with them.
Therefore, the schools will increase their collaboration with local institutions and will improve or boost their image in the community. It will benefit from more active students and teachers who will feel motivated by the participation.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 122785 Eur

Project Coordinator

Zespol Szkol Nr1 im. prof. B. Krupinskiego & Country: PL

Project Partners

• OOU Goce Delcev
• ILKADIM GUZEL SANATLAR LISESI
• Escola Secundária/3 Camilo Castelo Branco
• Liceo Statale Pascasino