« No Dump, No Dumb» is a collaboration project based on the environment at a local, national and European level. The partners are invited to think and to act on their environment at school, in their everyday living space and in Europe. How to handle at every level in order to produce less waste and to reduce its impact by recycling. What’s the schools’ strategy to limit their environmental footprint? What policies about ecology do the different countries implement at a local or national scale? How does Europe handle politically to solve the problem concerning waste? “No Dump, No Dumb” is a project based on three points: on the one hand, the aim is to exchange, to debate among partners in order to gather innovate and efficient ideas set up in the different countries. This would lead to create a sitography, a good-practice handbook, a digital guide for responsible citizens. On the other hand it consists in setting up real actions lead by our schools: cleaning actions on local sites, organizing advertising campaigns, visiting innovative recycling sites, crating artistic works thanks to recycling materials. Finally this project will help the students to extend their knowledge on how Europe works globally and what current actions about environment are put in place. “No Dump, No Dumb” is a project developing digital skills because many applications will be used to communicate, to exchange ideas or to transmit the actions results set up in the different schools. The e-Twinning platform, the social medias, the project or the partner schools websites will integrate the students in a modern digital world. The partner students will have to behave as responsible European citizens getting involved effectively for the climate challenge. They will also be able to debate and exchange good practice among the European Union inhabitants and at the same time they will get the opportunity to enlarge their knowledge on the European Institutions.
"No dump, no dumb" has involved Bulgarian, French, Portuguese, Italian and Belgian schools on the theme of environmental protection and citizenship. "No dump, no dumb" project enabled young people to reflect on the theme of ecology at European, national and local levels. Indeed, the European dimension has been approached through research on the history of European integration, knowledge of the European institutions and the environmental proposals of the MEPs of each country. The various virtual or physical activities carried out during the mobilities or in a local way have allowed young people to get involved in ecological reflection and action: participation in cleaning operations, carrying out exhibitions, advertising campaigns, Conferences, debates, reading and writing workshops on the environmental theme. In particular, a large-scale project was able to be carried out virtually and physically and integrate many skills. We wrote a collaborative puppet show scenario, made the puppets out of recycled materials, built the sets, Imagined the staging and performed the show by integrating all the participants allowing them to develop their practice of the French language. The digital component was not forgotten as we used many applications to collaborate and share the results of our research, especially through the eTwinning platform. We have created a digital guide for responsible citizens, a zero waste sitography. We also tried to integrate families, school staff and bodies outside schools by conducting surveys, developing canteen-related projects, Inviting speakers to organize debates or conferences in class. We tried in the different courses of the institutions to generate a reflection on the theme of ecology. We hope that this project will have enabled the young participants to evolve as responsible European citizens and will have offered them avenues of reflection and guides of good ecological practices. An ecological dynamic but above all an awareness has been engaged in our institutions that will continue to educate young people on the importance of environmental protection but especially on the daily ways to limit its environmental impact.