Students Against Extinction Erasmus Project

Project Title

Students Against Extinction

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: Agriculture, forestry and fisheries; Natural sciences; Energy and resources

Project Summary

This short term exchanges of groups of pupils project, “Students against extinction” will last two years.

The partners have been chosen from different types of secondary schools – vocational schools, general schools, public and private schools, from different geographical areas, diversity and colourfulness of their cultures, ways of life, ways of cooperation, school descriptions, experiences through eTwinning and some other partner search platforms as the biodiversity is needed for our project.

Therefore, the partnership consists of the secondary schools from Slovakia as the coordinator and Czech Republic, Latvia, Turkey, Greece, Spain as partners.

We will organise 6 LTT activities/mobilities. Every mobility will be 6 days + 1 day for travel and each school will be host once. There will be at least 4 pupils aged 14-19 years old and 2 responsible teachers from each school.

The project language will be English.

Distribution of the topics, tasks and workshops according to the SWOT analysis during the preparation phase is;

Slovakia; History of Beekeeping; Website; Bee Game
Czech Republic; Food, Agriculture and Food Waste; Social media accounts; Living in Erasmus+ world
Latvia; Consumerism and Waste; e-Twinning and video conferences; Effective communication, European Citizenship
Greece; Urban Agriculture; Multilingual Dictionary; Natural Disasters and protecting environment
Spain; Recycling and Renewable Sources; Brochures and photo-documentation; Gender issues, discrimination, Human rights, and multilingualism
Turkey; Ecologıcal Awareness and Protecting Environment; Newsletters; Breaking stereotypes

Although all pupils will have equal opportunity to participate in project activities regardless of gender, social or financial situation; selection of participants for mobilities will be done according to the pupils´ works on the project, willingness to participate in activities, host foreign pupils, attitudes, language skills and diligence with a gender balance.

Preparatory sessions before mobility to provide information about tasks, insurance, safety, partners’ culture, etc., and disseminating sessions after mobility will be conducted by contact teachers.

Project objectives are to develop the participants’ general and specific competences in order to widen their perspectives from local to the European sphere, to be more aware of the problems of the nature through the use of beekeeping as a cultural heritage, understand the value of being part of the European continent with a rich history, which will enable them to understand their similarities and historical connections with each other and to help them transfer their cultural heritages to future generations, to collaborative partnerships, to learn more about ecological awareness, protecting environment, history of civilization, to break down misconceptions of people from other cultures.

Our project will support the social and personal development of participants, work together in a multicultural environment, meet on common grounds in mutual understanding and organize activities to overcome language and culture challenges. This will improve participants’ feelings of self-confidence and the participants will start saying “I can do it now !”, which is one of our most expected aims.

The project offers a well defined controllable way for partners to take social issues from the curriculum and apply them into the running of the school as the strategy of our project is based on “Learning by experimenting”. This process helps students recognize the importance of social issues and take them more seriously in their lives. The tasks consist on dealing with content knowledge and problem-solving, thinking skills, analysing or evaluation with the help of methods such as meetings, workshops, discussions, sharing of educational materials and experiences, nonformal activities, excursions, competitions, role-plays, surveys, seminers, presentations, creating newsletters, DVDs and eTwinning network activities.

We will produce outputs such as booklets, cups, newsletters, DVDs, posters, T-shirts, flags, notebooks etc. and distribute free of charge. The programme and necessary logos will be emphasised on any kind of activities and materials.

Monitoring and assessment process will concentrate on if the project has reached its objectives and if the outputs are competent and are performed well enough to help us mirror on what extent we have complied with the main objectives of the project, what’s going well and what we should do to change or improve things.

As social networks will be effective multipliers, all partners will register to the eTwinning portal, will effectively use twinspace pages. And the project will be expanded through the use of eTwinning, websites, social media accounts.

With all disseminations, we aim to inform the community so that we will not leave anybody behind either not motivated to participate or not well-informed about the problems of nature.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 182712 Eur

Project Coordinator

Gymnázium Martina Hattalu & Country: SK

Project Partners

• Geniko Lykeio Agios Nikolaos,Sithonia,Halkidiki
• Ins Anna Gironella de Mundet
• Ozel Adalya Anadolu Lisesi
• Stredni odborna skola ochrany osob a majetku, s.r.o
• Adazu vidusskola