Think Green, Go Green & Recycle for Life Erasmus Project

Project Title

Think Green, Go Green & Recycle for 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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Environment and climate change; Social/environmental responsibility of educational institutions

Project Summary

The globalizing world faces unconscious consumption and waste formation industrialization and urbanization. The issue of rapid waste formation has impacts on societies, families and individuals. Recycling, which is processing, reproducing and using the previously collected materials is considerably important in today’s world. In this project, we aim to draw attention to waste types, waste management and recycling. To achieve this aim, our main activity will be creating an organic garden in each partner school with organic fertilizer which we get from the red worms fed with household wastes.

With this project, we set our aims as follows.
Teachers will:
– have knowledge in-depth about the vermicompost, recycling and organic nutrition.
– develop creativity with getting new products from waste materials.
-increase their digital competences by making use of the ICT throughout the project activities.
– upgrade English language level because all the activities and communication will be English.
-develop collaboration and communication skills.
– share their knowledge and experiences creating a new communication network.
– meet with colleagues from different countries and create teachers’ network for the future collaborations.
– increase collaboration capacity in international level.
Students will:
-comprehend that wastes exist as a result of human activity and at this point, recycle is important.
– learn to separate wastes as organics and recyclables.
– enhance awareness about the contribution of recycling to the economy.
– realize organic nutrition by running their own organic garden.
– learn different methods of plantation, varied trees and plant types existing in nature.
– upgrade English language level because all the activities and communication will be English.
– increase skills in language, communication and collaboration.
– learn to be tolerant to other cultures via enhancing cultural awareness and intercultural competences.

Participant students are aged between 7 and 12. In students’ elections for LTT, disadvantaged students will have priority and be encouraged for participation to the project. Except for the first LTT, partner schools will choose 5 students for each mobility. Total number of participant students will be 125.
Participant teachers will have the characteristics as high environmental sensitivity, open to cooperation and positive contribution to the project. Each school will attend the activities with 2 teachers and total number for the transnational meeting will be 60 teachers.

The activities which will serve the project’s aims and targets will be:
LTT1: It will be for only teachers’ training and they will be trained about vermicomposting method by an expert from Provincial Directorate of Agriculture.
LTT2: El Vedat Environmental Center, Environmental Awareness and Renewable Energy Workshops.
LTT3: Exploration of Trees in Arboretum.
LTT4: Agriculture of Future ( Hydroponics, landless agriculture)
LTT5: Recycle Fashion Show and Musical Performance
LTT6: Compost and Recycling Facility Visit

The main methodology which will be used in implementation of the project is learning by doing. All the planned activities are developed for students to gain first-hand experiences. Besides, questionnaires to be applied, focus group meetings, exploration visits, classroom applications and evaluations will be the other methodologies to be used.

Impacts and the potential longer term benefits of the project will be as follows:
-Each school will have its own organic garden and thus, students will be able to develop healthy, proper and organic nutrition habits.
-Students will not regard the wastes as garbage, instead, they will think how to recycle which will increase their analytical thinking skills.
-Students will realize the beauties in the nature by changing their perspective for nature, they will grow up as individuals who protect the nature and use it in the most efficient way.
-Participants will feel not only a part of a class or school but also a European and develop European citizenship conscious.
-Teachers will develop thinking skills on different teaching processes and explore different ways in order to increase the use of ICT.
-Institutions will improve school management skills and project management skills. Management policies will serve for placing students in the center of the learning process.
-Foreign language competence will increase.
– Positive attitude against social, cultural, linguistic diversity will develop.

Project Website

http://recycle4life.eu/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 160736 Eur

Project Coordinator

Atasehir Ata Ilkokulu & Country: TR

Project Partners

• Szkola Podstawowa im.Gustawa Morcinka w Toszku
• CEIP El MOLÍ
• ISTITUTO COMPRENSIVO STATALE
• Colégio Atlântico