Green Alliance project refers to the development of relevant and high-quality skills and competences in students and schools. The project aims to exchange good practices in the field of education-related activities concentrated on active environmental involvement. We will support Students and families and work to counteract social exclusion developing educational values of European Natural Cultural Heritage. The project will be implemented through the collaboration of five partner schools, Italy, Romania, Spain and Turkey, being the polish school the coordinator. The objective of the project is to attract our students’ attention on environmental issues, to foster awareness of social, political and economic interdependence at local, regional, national and international/global levels. Throughout the project participants will have opportunities to acquire the knowledge, values, attitudes, commitment and skills needed to protect and improve the environment. Environmental issues and project tasks will be implemented in the activities at schools and in cooperation with local authorities, other local schools and universities, and environmental associations. We will organise activities and workshops connected to environment as setting up school Green Clubs and Green Gardens, organizing logo competition and ecological day and parade, collecting eco waste, presentations, designs, texts, articles, games, slogans, forums, art and acts. Special care and steps will be taken to attend student in risk of social inclusion such as creating a mentoring programme of ambassadors as a joining encouragement towards inclusion for the refugee and population in risk of exclusion. We will take part in lectures and practical activities at university, visit Natural Heritage sites in each country, as well as work and experiment recycling plants. Our students will learn the EU legislation acts about environmental quality protection and actively create, take part in actions in their local communities and initiate work at their schools to be followed up in years to come. Project participants will benefit of the practice and improvement of the English language during the visits and collaborative work on ICT tools and through the use of the digital platform eTwinning, School Education Gateway. ICT training will be provided for students and teachers on new technologies and innovative practices. We will create concrete products such as: green gardens, a photo booklet about pollution forms, a green monopoly environmental game, a legend digital book, teaching materials, a dictionary of environmental terms with photo definitions, a photo album of beautiful landscapes of participants countries and video reports of all activities. All the developed materials will be issued in English and disseminated using the latest information technologies. Activities and products will be published on school Project Corners, leaflets, photos, local newspapers and local TV channels. For dissemination of our results and products we have planned: an international Green website, a Facebook page, a green You tube channel and updating newsletters for local and regional network contacts of each associate After completion of the project especially participants, families, and local people will develop and reinforce new patterns of environmentally sensitive behaviour and they will become aware of the problems of environment. In long term, partner countries will have memorial school Green Gardens and greener and cleaner environment, responsible individuals, a good friendship and they will work together for further partnerships. The expected effect will be the consolidation of cooperation between partner schools, which after cooperation within the eTwinning platform since February 2016, will maintain and consolidate a line of common work in their European schools implementing environmental awareness, Cultural Heritage together with social inclusion strategies as priorities of associates ‘schools as Educational Values and development.
Green Alliance project has referred to the development of relevant and high-quality skills and competences in students and schools. The project aimed to exchange good practices in the field of education-related activities concentrated on active environmental involvement. We have supported students and families and work to counteract social exclusion, developing educational values of European Natural Cultural Heritage. The project has been implemented through the collaboration of five partner schools: Italy, Romania, Spain and Turkey, being the Polish school the coordinator. The objective of the project was to attract our students’ attention on environmental issues, to foster awareness of social, political and economic interdependence at local, regional, national and international / global levels. Throughout the project participants have had opportunities to acquire the knowledge, values, attitudes, commitment and skills needed to protect and improve the environment. Environmental issues and project tasks have been implemented in the activities at schools and in cooperation with local authorities, other local schools and universities, and environmental associations and institutions. We have organised activities and workshops connected to environment as setting up school Green Clubs and Green Gardens, organizing logo competition and an ecological day and parade, collecting eco waste, presentations, designs, texts, articles, games, slogans, forums, art and acts. Special care and steps have been taken to include student in risk of social inclusion such as creating a mentoring programme of ambassadors as a joining encouragement towards inclusion for the refugee and population in risk of exclusion. We have taken part in lectures and practical activities at universities, visited Natural Heritage sites in each country, as well as recycling plants. Our students have learnt the EU legislation acts about environmental quality protection and actively have taken part in actions in their local communities and initiated work at their schools to be followed up in years to come. Project participants have benefited of the practice and improvement of the English language during the visits and collaborative work on ICT tools and through the use of the digital platform eTwinning. ICT training have been provided for students and teachers on new technologies and innovative practices. We have created permament products such as: school Green Gardens, Environmental Dictionary with photo definitions, Green Monopoly - a board game and its computer version, the Legend Book, Fauna and Flora Cards, Green Videos with territories and school Green Gardens, Photo Gallery of landscapes and project meetings, Air Pollution Sensor. All of them can be used as teaching materials for many years to come. All the developed materials have been issued in English and disseminated using the latest information technologies. Activities and products have been published on school Project Corners, leaflets, social media, eTwinning, school websites, photos, local newspapers and local TV channels. For dissemination of our results and products we have planned: an international website, a Facebook page, a green Youtube channel and updating newsletters for local and regional network contacts of each involved school. Participation in the project has had a great impact on its direct participants (students and teachers) as well as on people involved in some project tasks (parents, local residents) as they have developed and reinforced new patterns of environmentally sensitive behaviour and they have become aware of the problems of environment. In long term, partner countries will have memorial school Green Gardens and greener and cleaner environment, responsible individuals, a good friendship and they will work together for further partnerships. We are satisfied with the extent of our results as can be seen in evaluation survey results and analysis. 96% of our Project particpants declared that their environmental awareness has risen and particpants are now attracted towards being involved in activities concerning climate change, environment pollution measures, and the protection of the Natural Spaces of their territories. The expected effect will be the further cooperation between partner schools, which after cooperation within the eTwinning platform since February 2016, will maintain and consolidate a line of common work in their European schools implementing environmental awareness, Cultural Heritage together with social inclusion strategies as priorities of associates ‘schools as Educational Values and development.