Project content, objectives, expected results

As citied in European Commission website: "Becoming the world’s first climate-neutral continent by 2050 is the greatest challenge and opportunity of our times. To achieve this, the involvement and commitment of the public and of all stakeholders is crucial. Bearing in mind all the above-mentioned and considering the level of environmental pollution at our regions, we decided to develop an Erasmus+ KA2 project with the aim to promote environmental awareness and eco-friendly habits.

There are six organizations /primary and secondary schools/ that will contribute to the project. All of them have experience in promoting eco-awareness. Some of them have experience in Erasmus+ projects.

The project objectives are:

1.Raising eco-awareness and concern about the global climate changes among students and teachers from the participating schools, students' parents as well as among local communities;

2. Developing eco-culture and promoting its importance as a key European value at local, national and international level;

3. Reinforcing the development of digital competences, communication in foreign languages, learning to learn competence, social and civic competences, sense of initiative among the target groups;

4. Developing environmentally-friendly skills and habits that will be beneficial for the participants in the long-term

All the project activities are planned to raise eco-awareness and concern about global climate changes /eco-contests, quizzes, exhibitions, essays and compositions on ecology, song of ecology/. Some activities require the participation of parents, local authorities, recycling companies /charity events, eco-workshops, eco-surveys, concert, debate on environmental problems/ . Other project activities require different ICT tools /presentations, e-reports, videoconferences, photo contest/. One of the Learning, Training, Teaching activity is structured around eco-related ICT lessons design. The other three are structured around eco-related CLIL lessons design, inquiry-based eco-projects and the personal contribution to the environment. Moreover, the implementation of the activities will lead to the development of digital competences, communication in foreign languages, learning to learn competence, social and civic competences, sense of initiative among the target groups

The desired impact of the project could be described as follows:

1. Impact at the local and regional level -the activities are structured in such a way to include students, teachers, parents and local communities as target groups. Being involved in different eco-related activities monthly these target groups will develop consciousness toward eco-related problems as well as eco-friendly habits. The process of collaboration with local recycling companies, local university and city councils will result in development of positive eco attitude among the local communities living in the areas where participating schools are.

2. Impact on national, European and international level - the activities implementation will be shared via local and national medias, project website, project social medias pages/ Facebook/, eTwinning, Erasmus+ Project Result Platform. Articles related to the project topic and project activities implementation will be published and presented on national conferences. All the participating schools will share the experience gained during the project activities implementation via eTwinning with their partners. Moreover, the development of project website as well as social medias pages might result in the environmental awareness increase of all the people who will visit project's social medias pages and website.

Bearing in mind the fact that the project's topic has been set as an international priority by the European Commission justifies the demand this project to be carried out transnationally.

Furthermore, participating schools will be able to compare the impact their own countries could have on the ecology. Caring out the project at an international level will result in the development of sense of European citizenship among the students and teachers involved. Furthermore, the topic of the project is so universal, that by promoting these to our pupils on a regular basis, the effect will be local at first, then regional, European and International.

The most important assets of our project that can ensure its sustainability are the dataset of activities connected to environment and the videos with the examples of good practice.

Moreover, good practices in terms of developing eco-friendly attitudes among students, parents, local community will be enriched annually even after the project completion.

Consequently by the end of the project, each participating school will continue with the implementation of the eco-related activities and their dissemination at local, national and international level.