CASE stands for Consumption Awareness for Students in Europe. As this acronym communicates, the project will aim at creating further awareness among students, educators and other stakeholders for rational and educated consumption. Adopting a favorable behavior toward rational and educated consumption may be helpful on the individual basis. But we propose that this is also a necessary step toward creating awareness at the local, societal, national, and global levels. Our aims consist of providing our students with knowledge and skills to become rational consumers, informed service users, informed consumers of energy, water and other natural resources. The project therefore draws attention on the role of education in consumption and protecting the natural resources including the environment. Through education and motivation, they will learn to shoulder further responsibility for consuming the products in a rational and intelligible way as well as for protecting the natural resources and the environment. This does not mean that the students will spend less in the future or buy fewer products. This, however, means that they will purchase products in a way to better meet their needs in a much healthier way while also respecting the natural environment. They will also learn to appreciate the recycling and put the used items in a better use for individual and societal needs. Student exchanges and other activities in the project will also enhance an understanding toward diverse perspectives on European citizenship and help our students to develop an appreciation of the European cultural diversity and an empathy for different cultures. 6 institutions from 5 Program Countries (4 from member states, 1 from candidate countries) have come together to form the project CASE. Approximately more than 200 mobility (mainly student mobility) is planned for 2 years. It is widely agreed that the prosperity of our world’s future is closely connected to well-educated children. In our project we will make it clear that each student's voice is heard, because in a milieu of cultural diversity different views act as a catalyst for progress at each level of social life. The name “CASE” will play a dual role in this project; CASE as the acronym and the main headings of the activities. The activities are divided in 3 main sections; Case 1 studies will be raising awareness of consumption on the individual level, Case 2 studies will be developing common social attitudes toward consumption, and Case 3 studies will be raising awareness for a global outlook to world's limited and diminishing resources.The methodologies we will employ in carrying out this project are constructivist, collaborative, and multi-disciplinary while also respecting lifelong learning models.
CASE stands for Consumption Awareness for Students in Europe: the project aimed at creating further awareness among students, educators and other stakeholders for rational and educated consumption. During the project development, the partnership worked both on delivering proper knowledge on the topics addressed by the project – sustainability, as a word which ties together individual choices and global effects; healthy lifestyles, with regards to an ecosystemic perspective; awareness of the impact of consumption behaviours on the vast economic system of relationships – and questioning attitudes and beliefs regarding consumption and lifestyles, fostering visible learning through the promotion of a favorable attitude towards changing. From an individual point of view, the project architecture led progressively to the next steps, creating awareness at the local, societal, national, and global levels. The path was meant to provide our students with knowledge and skills to become rational consumers, informed service users, informed consumers of energy, water, and other natural resources. Student exchanges and other activities in the project also contributed to enhancing an understanding of diverse perspectives on European citizenship and helped our students to develop an appreciation of the European cultural diversity and an empathy for different cultures. 6 institutions from 5 Program Countries (4 from member states, 1 from candidate countries) have come together to form the project CASE. Approximately more than 200 mobilities (mainly student mobility) have been planned for 2 years. The activities have been divided in 3 main stages; CASE 1 studies aimed to raise awareness of consumption on the individual level: the main output for this stage has been the survey data analysis, on which all the further actions were set up; CASE 2 studies will be developing common social attitudes toward consumption: the main output has been an advertising campaign, built by the students, promoting awareness on a social level by using proper media tools; in the end, CASE 3 studies promoted a global outlook to world's limited and diminishing resources. The last project step was closed by delivering a curriculum, containing all the inputs and suggestion gathered through the 2-years project cycle in order to suggest activities, initiative and researches to any school willing to draw a similar experience for its students everywhere in EU and in the world. The methodologies employed in carrying out this project have been inspired by constructivism, cooperative learning methods, problem based learning and teaching, and multi-disciplinary approaches, promoting a positive attitude towards a lifelong learning perspective.