Siauliai sports gymnasium is a school providing education for children talented in sport. It provides high-quality genenal secondary education combined with sport, which meets the child's natural abilities and educates a competitive personality, managing the integrity of knowledge, skills and values and being able to adapt to modern society. The majority of students come from different regions of Lithuania and live in a dormitory. They not only learn to combine educational process with training, but also to travel and to live in sports camps in our country and abroad.

Thus, in order to achieve optimal studying and living conditions for students we have to search ways to solve a variety of problems in studying and sport. To achieve this we have to look for innovative education solutions that would influence the student's success. Thus, teachers of our gymnasium try to improve their qualification in various improvement courses in our country and abroad and participate in international projects. Thanks to projects our school had the opportunity to visit schools and to share opinions on methods of teaching and learning.

One of the tasks and aims of school staff is to educate students to be environmentally friendly, to establish effective waste management systems in the dormitory, to help students’ families take action around reducing household waste. This is our motivation to participate in this project. Key staff has already been identified within school that are enthusiastic and ready to be involved in the projects. It is expected that 10 teachers/staff members will participate in project activities.Now at school a project preparation team is created which consists of 3 teachers and 1 representative of school administration which is responsible for ideas for future project.

If the project is approved more teachers and staff members will be added into this group. This team consists of people who have experience in project work, use educational innovations actively, speak English fluently, have skills of using ICT in educational process. These teachers are: Z. Guzienė has been working as an English teacher for more than 20 years. In 2010 m. she improved her teaching skills in Comenius qualification improvement courses in the UK, in 2011- in Malta. She was a coordinator of some Comenius and Grundtvig project, and also a coordinator of 6 Erasmus+ projects.

B.Mažonavičienė -a Headteacher Deputy, she was a member of the project team of Comenius/Erasmus+projects, she is responsible for organisation of various conferences and seminars at school, and for non-formal education at school. Teacher of English. V. Čėsnienė – teacher of Ethics,, a member of a project team of 2 Erasmus+ projects, an active organiser of school projects, republican conferences. V. Čėsnienė together with Z. Guzienė worked on the intellectual outputs of Erasmus+ projects, together with other partners they created methodological books.Speaks English fluently.

School's website: www.sportogimnazija.lt