“Better environment better tomorrow” as environmental care is the most profitable investment for a safer future for the next generations. This is core of the project and it is time to act before too late just protect the earth from today so Let’s work together for a safe earth because we can protect environment better together. This is the source of the motivation that brings project partners together. Our project is “All Equal, All Different, All Europeans, Taking Eco Friendly Actions”Among the Project priorities there are: Making contribution into implementation of targets of Environment Policy of EU Acting in accordance with the objectives of the 7th Environment Action Program in force.Making all project stakeholders conscious of the reasons of climate change on account of human as stated in EU Climate Change Conference 4th Evaluation results. Contributing into EU 7th Environment Action Program through the main constituents of the project as conversation and rehabilitation of nature and natural sources ; and reduction of the effects caused environmentally reasons. Realizing the objective “resource efficient Europe” within the EU 2020 Strategy via educating individuals using energy resources efficiently, taking the action immediately in order to prevent global warming and climate change. Reinforcing consciousness of the Active European citizenship among participants via the atmosphere created by cooperation of the partners from diverse cultural backgrounds. Development of the participants digital skills among the European Priorities via the web tools used during the project. Number and profile of the participants :We conduct the project together with 6 partners: Turkey as the coordinator country and Estonia, Lithuania, Romania, Turkey, Czech Republic. Eco friendly actions divided in to project subtitles according to expertise area and previous experiences of the partners. Project partners have the competencies as conducting many local projects efficiently, being awarded in e-twinning projects, communicating easily, having digital competencies and language proficiency in English. Drawing the inspiration from the objective of stimulating participants to take greater efforts to live eco friendly life, we are going to share good practices via LLT activities on site. Why we conduct this project, what is the background and what is the most distinguishing feature is that we conducted eco friendly actions project in e-twinning portal for one year. The project won many awards and had well equipped background during this process. Aims of the project: Via sharing good practices; raising awareness and making all participants and stakeholders conscious of global warming, environmental pollution, recycling and reusing of wastes, protection of the natural life and alternative energy sources ; and stimulating participants to take greater efforts. Contributing into EU’s aims of developing effective approaches for the matter of international environment and climate change. Making participants conscious of importance of carbon footprint Contributing into the aim of forming European Community and cultural exchange via developing idea of cultural diversity and mutual acceptance among participants. There will be 3 LTT and 2 TNMs. TNM will be hold with the participation of two teachers from coordinator school and one from partner schools responsible for project management from each school. The ultimate aim of TPMs is to manage, control of the process ; evaluate LTTs, activities, reports qualitatively and quantitatively. The total number of the participants in LTT activities is 80. In the first year, there will be Ltt activity in Estonia, February 2016, about sharing of the good practices of saving energy and natural sources and alternative energy sources. In the second year, second LTT activity will be held in Czech Republic, September 2017, protection of the nature and reforestation. Third LTT activity will be held in Lithuania, April 2018, protection of environment and natural sources.Project activities and results:There will be questionnaire studies, project website, e-twinning project platform, project corridor, flag, emblem, slogans, posters, reducing carbon footprint at schools , application for eco schools green flag award, project magazine, e-book for recycle of wastes, photograph and video competitions, organic garden activities, project calendar, quality control and financial reports during and after the project. Management of the project Each project will set up budget keeping, time management, audit and coordination committees; and a common project executive board. The whole process will be under control via quality control plan.Effects and the results of the project:In the long run, Project website, magazine,Implementation of Environment Education Curricular at schools, School Environment Protection Strategy, Eco Schools Green Flag award, Eno Treelympics.
“Better environment better tomorrow” as environmental care is the most profitable investment for a safer future for the next generations. This was the core of the project and the source of the motivation that brought project partners together. The ground of the project was being conducted as eTwinning project for one year in eTwinning platform as “All Equal, All Different, All Europeans, Taking Eco Friendly Actions” by different partners and 266 pupils and awarded with national and European quality labels. Project targets were contributing into EU 7th Environment Action Program, Achieving the objective “resource-efficient Europe” within the EU 2020 Strategy thanks to educating the pupils using energy resources efficiently, taking immediate actions towards deforestation, environmental pollution, recycling and reuse of wastes, protection of nature and environment, global warming. Additionally, developing consciousness of the Active European citizenship among participants via the atmosphere created by cooperation of the partners from diverse cultural background, improving participants digital skills among the European Priorities via the web tools used in activities. We conducted the project together with 5 secondary partner schools: Turkey (Konya) as the coordinator country, Estonia, Lithuania, Romania, Turkey (Izmir). Eco friendly actions were divided into project subtitles according to expertise area and previous experiences of the partners that partner schools had already experienced in. All the participants were stimulated to take greater efforts to live eco-friendly life through sharing good practices in LTTs. There were 3 LTT (Estonia, Sauga; Turkey, Konya; Lithuania, Kaunas) and 2 TPM (Romania, Amara; Turkey Izmir) meetings, as it was planned in the application form. The ultimate aim of TPMs was to manage, control of the process; evaluate LTTs, activities, reports qualitatively and quantitatively. In the first year, there was the LTT activity in Estonia, April 2017, about sharing of the good practices of saving energy and natural sources and alternative energy sources. In the second year, the second LTT activity was held in Turkey, Konya, November 2017; protection of nature, reforestation and alternative energy source solar-energy. The third LTT activity was held in Lithuania, May 2018; protection of environment and natural sources&areas; as the host countries had good practices in those areas to share with other participants. Management of the project: partners set up budget keeping, time management, audit and coordination committees; and a common project executive board. The whole process was under control via Quality Control Plan. Project activities and results: There were several questionnaires as expectation and satisfaction, project website created (www.ecofriendlyactions.net) , working on e-twinning project platform for two years (https://twinspace.etwinning.net/44402/home) , Final Products (available online in order to have a short look) (https://padlet.com/ceren35/9dryk3fak5jx), project corridor and room with the activities information on them, the contests of project emblem, slogan, posters; counting carbon footprint at schools and giving the suggestions for reducing it; conducting Eco Schools activities for two years (http://www.ecoschools.global/) and applying for green flag award and getting it; creating the project e-magazine, project calendar, e-book for recycle of wastes; organizing photographs and video competitions, organic garden activities; conducting quality control and financial reports during and after the project. Four partners; Tr Konya and İzmir, Lithuania, Estonia got green flag award for the 2018-2020 period thanks to Action plans conducted for two years. Also Tr Konya and İzmir partners awarded with eTwinning School Label by the European Commission, the eTwinning Central Support Service (CSS) Brussels. Also, Romanian partner was awarded with ROMANIA / PREMIUL II - Creative Usage of Technologies with Eco Friendly Actions Project. Our project was chosen as the 2nd best project in terms of technology use in 2017-2018. Further Effects and results of the project: the students not only got the better understanding of the environmental problems and their own role in protecting nature but were also urged to learn English better as the main communication language in the project was English. Students also improved in ICT skills, became more creative and started using entirely new ICT tools for their studies and project matters. Schools curriculum also overcame some changes. Partners created Environment Education Curriculum and School Environment Protection Strategy for the sustainability of the project. In the long run, Project website, magazine and booklets, Implementation of Environment Education Curricular at schools, integrating School Environment Protection Strategy into School Strategy, Eco Schools Green Flag award and contributing into Eno Treelympics platform.