This project follows a Comenius Regio project which was realized in the years 2012-2014. The project partners wish to continue successful cooperation which was started thanks to that project and want to develop European dimension of their work and education. Both regions are located in structurally weak areas and suffer from low infrastructure. This project should help to improve the image of local educational institution as well as the conditions of community life. The topic of this project is Water as a phenomenon in the life of mankind and a common component of European pre-primary and primary education. Water plays an important role in both regions and its uniqueness, scarcity, insularity as well as danger or utility in everyday life and educational concepts are subject of this project. The project has three main products including a childrens´ book with pictures and poems, a set of methodology worksheets and colouring worksheets related to water and finally an educational foot-path around the local water areas. The project has about 2500 direct and indirect participants. The direct participants include workers of municipal authorities of both regions, elementary schools and kindergartens, fire fighter associations and associations active in the branch of environmental protection. The indirect participants are citizens from local communities in both participating regions and other indirect participants at whom the dissemination is aimed. The project is based on methods of experiential teaching, non-formal learning and transition pedagogy and long-life learning. A specific topic of this project is inclusion, as both regions have citizens from disadvantaged social classes and this project should lead to their better integration into community life. The project activities include educational activities aimed at water as a phenomenon, during these activities, partial results will arise and will be presented on the project web-site or on the E-twinning platform. Educational institution will prepare their own materials and worksheets and finally all material will be collected to form the above mentioned final products. An important project activity is creating an educational foot path, which will represent a long-term result of the project and will enhance the attractiveness of both regions for tourists. A final local conference in both participating regions with the aim to inform about the results of this project and promote the programme Erasmus+ will be held. The audience of the conference will be public, local citizens, teachers from all types of schools in the region and local political representatives. During the conference the outputs of the project and its methodology will be presented to the visitors. All results and outcomes will be used to refresh, update and modify the school curricula to suit the needs of todays pupils growing up in the European background. The experience and skills gained during further education courses will be reflected in the educational programmes of all participating kindergartens and schools. Long term benefits of this project include improving the level of key competences and professional skills of all participants, enhancing transnational cooperation and the dissemination of good practice.
This project followed a Comenius Regio project which was realized in the years 2012-2014. The project partners wanted to continue successful cooperation which was started thanks to that project and wanted to develop European dimension of their work and education. Both regions are located in structurally weak areas and suffer from low infrastructure. This project helped to innovated educational methods in local schools and kindergartens as well as the cooperation in community life. The topic of this project was Water as a phenomenon in the life of mankind and a common component of European pre-primary and primary education. Water plays an important role in both regions and its uniqueness, scarcity, insularity as well as danger or utility in everyday life and educational concepts were subjects of this project. The project had ten partner organisations, five at each side, in every participating country, there was one municipality office, two educational organisations and two non-school organisation active in education. Compared to the previous project, there was one new partner organisation in Germany as well as in the Czech Republic. The project had about 2500 direct and indirect participants. The direct participants included workers of partner organisations, the indirect participants were citizens from local communities in both participating regions and other indirect participants at whom the dissemination was aimed. The project activities included educational activities aimed at water as a phenomenon, during these activities, partial results came into existence and were presented on the project website and on the E-twinning platform. Educational institution prepared their own materials and worksheets and finally all materials were collected to form the final products of this project. An important project activity represents creating an educational footpath, which is also considered as a long-term result of this project and will enhance the attractiveness of both regions for tourists in the future. Besides that six transnational meetings were realised during the project life cycle. The project had three main products - a children book with pictures and poems, a set of methodology worksheets and colouring worksheets related to water and finally an educational foot-path around the local water areas. The project was based on methods of experiential teaching, non-formal learning and transition pedagogy and long-life learning. A specific topic of this project was also inclusion, as both regions have citizens from disadvantaged social classes and this project was aimed at better integration of these social groups into community life. All results and outcomes were used to refresh, update and modify the school curricula to suit the needs of today pupils growing up in the European background. The experience and skills gained during further education courses were reflected in the educational programmes of all participating kindergartens and schools. Long-term benefits of this project also include improving the level of key competences and professional skills of all participants, enhancing transnational cooperation and the dissemination of good practice.