The world population and the pollution created by consumption threaten our living spaces. Moreover, throwing away products that are usable is economic waste. With the aim of bringing these insights to our students, we teach environmental protection throughout curriculum in majority of our subjects and every year we organize The Earth Day. We also repeatedly recycle paper, plastic and dangerous waste. Our school also took part in the national competition of young fashion designers "Make New out of Old" (using recycled materials to make clothes and accessories). We have based our project to be more progressive and innovative on an international scale. Thus, to educate individuals with world citizen consciousness so that they will not be indifferent to the problems of the world they live in. Other contributions will be that the participants will become aware of tolerance, harmony and democracy by recognizing different cultures of our participants. Moreover, one of the economic outputs of our project will contribute to the family budget and the economy (they will reuse the old materials and not spend much money on new things. In this way, in long term the project will contribute to their savings) We plan the project to include 125 participants in total. We expect our participants to become predominantly students. So we aim they will achieve sustainable experiences. Our project will have 100 mobilities plus the participants of host schools. Participants are expected to be interested in recycling, with the ability to speak English on a basic level, team-oriented, and open to intercultural dialogue. The selection of participants will be based on clear, transparent, fair and gender equality principles. In order to reach the goals we have stated, we find it extremely important for the continuity of the goals of our project to make it easier for our participants to achieve and gain internalized achievements. Therefore, we plan a 5-day 5 Learning / Teaching / Training activities in which our participants will experience and learn from their peers, which will be the main methodology for peer learning. Each of these activities will be held in 5 different partner countries, with 3 students and 2 teachers from each partner school, and the subject of our project will be handled in a different way in each activity so that recycling awareness can be settled in different areas of life. Planned mobilities and issues; 1)Czech Republic: Recyling of Fashion 2)Bulgaria : Creating Decorations from Waste Materials 3)Latvia: You Can Save a Tree 4)Turkey: Recyling of Solid Waste 5) Romania: Creative Recyling Furthermore, Participants will develop tolerance, harmony and understanding of democracy towards different cultures, foreign language proficiency will rise, and progress will be made in digital skills. In this regard, our project will contribute to the development of participants´ lifelong learning skills. It is planned to spread all activities through social networks with the website, Facebook account and YouTube channel account which will be established in the process of reaching the wider project outputs to the wider masses. In addition, informative meetings will be held after the mobility within the institution and shared on an institutional basis via school boards. Workshop-based student, teacher, and parent project information meetings will be held in different schools on different levels to influence the project at local level. All work done will be made available at the local press, and dissemination on a local basis will be strengthened. Nevertheless, a flash-mob in a central public area will be made to promote recycling awareness at the national level during the first and second years of the project, an e-Book will be formed in which the main activities of the project will be included. E-book wil be formed in two parts. It will be shared on all social media tools, especially websites. Access to this book will be open to everyone even after the project is finished. In addition, each partner institution will hold the "April 22 Earth Day" celebrations every year in our project, the importance of recycling for the world will be emphasized and so awareness of recycling will be created. The institutions will continue to celebrate this day after the end of the project, which will contribute to the sustainability of this project. Short-term project impacts on participants : Being individuals who have a high level of awareness about recycling, who are aware of their individual responsibilities in this respect and who take the world, environment, family and country economy into account . Foreign language, digital and communicative skills will be improved. Long-term project effects on participants: They will be developed to become world citizens who are sensitive to the problems of the world they live in, respectful of different cultures, and tolerant of the world. Lifelong learning processes will be supported.
The world population and the pollution created by consumption threaten our living spaces. Moreover, throwing away products that are usable is economic waste. With the aim of bringing these insights to our students, we teach environmental protection throughout the curriculum in the majority of our subjects and every year we organize The Earth Day. We also repeatedly recycle paper, plastic and dangerous waste. Our school also took part in the national competition of young fashion designers "Make New out of Old" (using recycled materials to make clothes and accessories). We based our project to be more progressive and innovative on an international scale. Thus, to educate individuals with world citizen consciousness so that they would not be indifferent to the problems of the world they live in. Another contribution was that the participants have become aware of tolerance, harmony and democracy by recognizing different cultures of our participants. Moreover, one of the economic outputs of our project somehow contributed to the family budget and the economy (they learnt to reuse old materials and not spend much money on new things. In this way, in the long term the project contributed to their savings). 371 participants (273 students, 98 teachers) took part in the project activities during mobilities (LTT) and we can proudly say they have achieved sustainable experience. Moreover, about 4000 pupils, teachers and parents were addressed during dissemination activities. We chose the participants who were interested in recycling, with the ability to speak English on a basic level, team-oriented, and open to intercultural dialogue. The selection of participants was based on clear, transparent, fair and gender equality principles. We organised 5 Learning / Teaching / Training activities in which our participants experienced and learned from their peers, which was the main methodology for peer learning. Three of these activities were held in 3 different partner countries (Czechia, Bulgaria, Latvia) with 3 - 5 students and 2 - 3 teachers from each partner school. Two LTT organised by Turkey and Romania – covid affected - had to be done online via ZOOM. The subject of our project was handled in a different way in each activity so that recycling awareness was settled in different areas of life: Physical: 1)Czech Republic: Recycling of Fashion 2)Bulgaria : Creating Decorations from Waste Materials 3)Latvia: You Can Save a Tree Virtual: 4)Turkey: Recycling of Solid Waste 5) Romania: Creative Recycling Participants have developed tolerance, harmony and understanding of democracy towards different cultures; foreign language proficiency aroused and they improved digital skills. In this regard, our project contributed to the development of participants´ lifelong learning skills. We spread all activities through social networks with the website, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube channel accounts which were established in the process of reaching the wider project outputs to the wider masses. In addition, informative meetings were held after the mobility within the institution and shared on an institutional basis via school boards. Workshop-based student, teacher, and parent project information meetings were held in different schools on different levels to influence the project at local level. All our activities were published in the local press, and dissemination on a local basis was done by all schools. Moreover, a flash-mob in a central public area was made to promote recycling awareness at the national level during the first and second years of the project. We have also created an e-Book which contains the main activities of the project. E-book is shared on all social media tools, especially websites. Access to this book is open to everyone even after the project is finished. In addition, each partner institution held the "April 22 Earth Day" celebrations every year in our project, the importance of recycling for the world was emphasized and so awareness of recycling was created. The institutions will continue to celebrate this day after the end of the project, which will contribute to the sustainability of this project. Short-term project impacts on participants : The participants have become individuals who have a high level of awareness about recycling, who are aware of their individual responsibilities in this respect and who take the world, environment, family and country economy into account. Moreover, they improved foreign language, digital and communicative skills. Long-term project effects on participants: They have become world citizens who are sensitive to the ecological problems of the world they live in, respectful and tolerant of different cultures.