Terra Community and Ethics of the Future

Project summary

We have identified a common need with multiples effects on life quality and survival of human essence; it is- Outlining an optimistic future horizon regarding the soul retrieval and reducing the eco-system rupture. The target group which are mainly affected by this need it is the students group, but also we can consider teachers as a secondary target group. Direct beneficiaries of the project are our students (also, 24 students with economic obstacles), teachers and parents and indirect beneficiaries are minimum 800 representants of public and private school partners (NGO-s, Halls and County Councils, libraries, business environment, etc). The project aim it is:Learning to becoming together, activating individual and community moral conscience, in order to correct, re-connect and harmonize individual and communitarian Self at Bio-system. General and specific objectives of the project are:O1. Development of the spirit to belonging at Terra community, as global community of the Living. 1.1. Building a virtual Terra community, as space of human, friendly intersections, sharing experiences, opinions and information; 1.2. Identifying values, rules and characteristics of Terra Community membership, as community of Alive Future; 1.3. Determination of minimum 2 strategies for opening the moral community conscience, regarding Durable Development of Alive Community; 1.4. Creating a catalogue of popular cultural heritage-elements, as matrix for a Communitarian Culture of Alive Future, time connector and clue factor inter-generations.O2. Setting an Ethics of Alive Future, as deontological ethics of the Living and environmental literacy (obligation to respect the categorical imperative: Solidarity with Life!). 2.1.Identificating a set of values and ethical norms for an Alive Future; 2.2. Identificating the rights of the Living, as a new category of Future rights; 2.3. Analysing in a comparative way the translation and recovery of ethical norms of Alive, in legislative framework of partner countries (The Habitats Directive); 2.4. Inventory of the Living Heritage which it is in danger of extinction.O3.Increase the level of individual and community responsibility at each meeting with Alive-Another, through participatory education 3.1. Using information as basis for decisional process by production and consumption; 3.2. Identifying causal relationship between the consumer society and imbalance between human being and eco-system; 3.3. Understanding interdependencies between part and whole in bio- system and limits of human action in relation to it; 3.4. Proposal of minimum 4 open-participatory workshops which promote green entrepreneurship by reducing, reusing and recycling in a creative way.O4.Development of research competences 4.1. Formation/development of data analysis skills, including critical, systemic, global and globalizing thinking; 4.2. Formation/development of skills for writing articles. Key educational activities:*web page of the project-Newsletter, Face book group page, Twin-space, EcoPhylia Blog;*3 Interactive maps (Terra Community, Living Heritage in danger, EcoPhylia Clubs and Towns-Halls network);* 4 Free Mind! maps using a mapping soft where (1 per/country);* First Contest: Project LOGO and QR code;* Second Contest: Join and Learn!-52 educational virtual and printed cards with moral and motivational messages; * Virtual tour exposition by Posters;* Virtual tour exposition by Mandalas;* "FILES OF THE GIVING MEMORY BOOKS "-2 books for study: "The Giver", by Lois Lowry and "Kira Kira" , by Cynthia Kadohata; 4 critical essays and 12 paintings of Migrant Family;*2 On-line debates: Checking for Understanding, Understanding for Deciding! ;*8 Workshops for parents: Modalities to build the confidence ( 2 per country);* 4 open Workshops by participatory construction (1 per country)-FUTURE SCENARIOS , 4 Petitions for an Alive Future (1 per country) and one common final petition;*4 Workshops-Mental Map of my country (1 per country);*8 Flash mobs (2 per country) Solidarity with Life! on 26 April 2017, Day of Terra and 15 March 2018, Day of Consumer Rights. *4 EcoPhylia Clubs (Green Recycling Clubs-1 per country);* 8 EcoSophya Caravans- May 2017 and May 2018 (2 per country);* 8 EcoSophya Hunting for students, during May- June 2017 and May- June 2018 ( 2 per country);* 1 comparative study about the translation and recovery of ethical norms of Alive, in legislative framework of partner countries;*1 electronic catalogue with stylized elements of the nature from popular heritage;* 4 articles Nature in danger;* 8 Focus-group interviews with direct beneficiaries ( 2 per country) and 1 article with collected data. Other project activities:-2 transnational meetings;-4 short learning sessions.