Our new project called „Clean Energy – green solution for Europe“ continue in previous project „ Save energy – energy for the future“. This project showed us that energy as the main condition for life is important. But more important is the sustainability of life so way how we take and effectively use the energy.The main aim of the project is strategical partnership of seven countries. By mean of this we would like create innovative methodical and educational material which will support dissemination of project idea - to show that the renewable sources of energy (clear energy, respectful for life) will be the mainstay of future energy for all of us. The aim we want to reach by partners reciprocal education and by exchange of good practice. Our cooperation will be based on active comparison of collective idea and creation of common concrete output. We will organize transnational meetings and short time educational activities for students. Throug these occasions we want to support synergy between educational, work and inovative activities and digitalization of educational content. We would like to support a use of IT technologies and improve literacy in natural sciences, mostly in mathematics and physics by using inovative educational methods as well as boost motivation of English language study of project participants. Project participants will be students of information and technical branches from each partners school and pedagogical stuff, particulary teachers of natural sciences, technical and IT subjects and teachers of English language. Number of participants with grant support in all its items is 230 teachers and 2800 students. Number of fellow participants is more than 7500. All project activities will be focused on creation of right environmental awareness of project participants and dissemination of project idea to raise publics awareness in partner countries. We will focus especially on topics: energy effectiveness, inteligent building, communities, villages, towns. Students and teachers will look for collective methods in solution of the problems during realization of activities. Within activities students of partner countries will create teaching aids based on topic about using a clear energy or saving energy in household. We will organize „ A low-energy day“ at school, which will be focused on saving electric power and transnational meeting „ Days of clear energy“, which will be focused on particular renewable source of energy ( water, light, air, warm). During short time educational activities students can improve their technical, environmental and communicative skills. Teachers will be able to exchange experiences and educational methods and create collectively new innovative educational attitudes throug project realization. Project success rate is based on four mainstays and we divided them into next working stages:1. Creation of project team on transnational level2. Determination of project aims3. Realization – transformation of project aims4. Dissemination and implementation of project idea and results In the project we will use following methods and practices: preparation and creation of methodical materials (Energy test,digitize play, energy effectiveness guide – Vademékum), educational excursions, workshops, logical construction set Arduino, CLIL methods ( making of protocol from measuring in Energy centre, plan of intelligent household, non traditional innovative educational methods („ A low-energy day“, „ Days of clear energy“) After finishing of the project we expect that participants of the project will change their attitude towards a use renewable sources of energy and will disseminate project ideas in their classes, families and in public through their websides. We improve communication skills in foreign languages throuh realization of the project activities. The exchange of experiences and good practices will make a contribution to increase in the expertness and general view of all project participants. The project will support preparation and realization of plans of strategical cooperation in the area of seeking of new solutions of production and use renewable sources of energy. Project will be instrumental in increase of creativity and competitiveness between students of various school systems and cultures, will significantly support mutual exchange of general and technical knowledges, practices and skills of students and teachers, use of modern technologies, educational methods and procedures and improving of communication skills in foreign language. We consider results and progress in mutual dialog and tolerance towards cultures very important.
Erasmus+ projects represent a significant part of life and educational process in our school. Particularly, the work on the previous project entitled “Safe energy – Energy for the future” absorbed and positively affected our students and teachers. Their attitude to the environment and the effective usage of electricity has been definitely changed. That was the reason why we have decided to develop this topic in the follow-up project “Pure energy- Green solution for Europe”. Through the project activities, project outputs and the dissemination of the project ideas we pointed out that energy is one of the basic prerequisites for life. After careful consideration, we emphasized mainly an effective usage and eco-friendly generation of electric energy. We decided to deal with this theme to make all project participants understand, that this is a global issue and it is necessary to be solved globally. The important goal was to unify seven countries into a functional strategic partnership. Project partners collaborated and carried out project activities and project outputs all together. Our cooperation was held in the friendly atmosphere. We shared the great ideas that immediately became common and we created the project outputs. We achieved this goal by the mutual peer to peer learning and the exchange of good practice. The comparison of diverse renewable energy resources and various potentials how to save energy, the change of participants’ attitude to renewables and their efficient consumption were a further project objectives.7 secondary schools from 7 countries were involved. Schools from the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Estonia and Slovakia are vocational schools and partner schools from Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece are comprehensive schools. Students, who participated in the project, studied mostly in the field of IT and electrical engineering. Teachers were experts in science, electrical subjects, English language and IT technologies. All project activities were realized with the aim to raise the environmental awareness of all participants and spread the project ideas throughout all partner countries to the wide public. Short-term training activities of pupils were carried out simultaneously with the transnational meetings. Through these occasions we wanted to support synergy in the field of education, occupation, innovations and digitization of schooling. We endorsed the usage of IT technologies and improved literacy in science and subjects like mathematics and physics. Moreover, we increased students’ motivation to study English language. Mainly we were focused on these topics:energy efficiency, intelligent buildings.Going through these activities students with their pedagogues were searching for a common approach to solve all issues mentioned before. Students, who participated in the short term activities, produced various interactive teaching aids on the usage of clean energy or how to save electrical energy in households. Each participated school arranged “Low energy” days. Within these days participants behaved ecologically and they exactly saved electric energy. On the transnational level were carried out “Days of clean energy”and the activities were focused on the certain renewable energy resource water, solar radiation, wind, geothermal energy.Finally, we prepared, realized and produced methodical materials, energy test, digitized game, the brief guide how to save energy, workshops, excursions, the design and realization of the intelligent-smart house by using the Arduino assembly kit. All these outputs are summarized in the final project output-Vademecum. During the short term student activities carried out in partner schools pupils improved their communication and language skills. Their mentors and teachers conducted these activities and applied method CLIL. Pedagogues put to good use the nontraditional teaching methods during Low energy days and Days of clean energy,and project teaching methods to elaborate measurements obtained in Energy centre.Teachers had opportunity to exchange their knowledge and experiences and they sat up new innovative approaches in tuition. From a long-term perspective participants changed their attitude towards renewables and disseminated project ideas. We improved communication skills through the project activities.The mutual exchange of knowledge advanced the proficiency and general overview of all who were participated.In addition,the project endorsed the preparation and realization of plans for strategic cooperation. Project contributed to the enhancement of creativity and competitiveness among pupils from different educational systems and cultures. Project contributed to the exchange of general and technical knowledge and skills among students and teachers.They got acquainted with modern technologies, new educational methods and approaches.The project had a significant impact on the development of mutual dialogue and tolerance between different cultures.