This project will provide training scheme and will create an awareness among schools from Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey about the risks caused by emergency situations and environmental disasters. A dedicated training material will be provided to school principals and teachers which will further extend their qualification to react in such situations. Students/children are one of the most vulnerable target groups, especially children with disadvantages (people with disabilities) and for those from underprivileged backgrounds (refugees, roma, immigrants, socio-economic problems, etc). Activities will include the running of a training course, a school project competition, activities conducted by experts from the fire brigades, hospitals, scientists, etc. The participation of the parents, families, school staff and the local communities will also be promoted. At the end of the project the children would not only have gained a better understanding about preventing and reacting in case of a emergency, but will have also improved their social and civic skills. They will feel more confident and responsible towards the society that they live in. By participating in this project, the school establishments will open themselves to new teaching and learning actors and to the local community. They will provide the students a nice, fun and welcoming environment. As such, the project objectives are, among others: - Improve the skills of students/young children, their teachers and their families in: o Recognize risk situations o Transform a risk situation into a safe situation o Identify sources of danger o How to act, evacuate and leave in a fast manner o Provide good advice in case of accidents - Provide opportunities for schools to open up to their local community, its local organisations (NGOs, fire brigades, hospitals, public authorities, police forces, etc) - Bring those external stakeholders to the school establishments so that they also contribute to bringing up the future generation of responsible Europeans. - Empower young children so that they feel more confident and responsible towards the society where they live. - Facilitate the integration of students from communities at risk of exclusion by providing them with the skills and tools that they need to live in a secured environment. - Make the school environment more attractive and avoid early school drop outs. - Promote school visits from one partner country to another and though confronting the students with a different language and cultural environment. - Create an informal network of schools that will exchange experiences, teaching and learning methods and good practices that will continue to exist once the EU funding is over. - Indirectly, students will also receive employment and career advice from the experts that will participate in the SOS Fire! Week (doctors, nurses, policemen, fire brigades, counselors, consultants, social workers, etc) Target groups: - Students from primary and secondary schools - School staff: teachers, head teachers, administrative staff, pedagogues, etc. - Parents and families - Local communities: local authorities, fire brigades, hospitals, social workers, NGOs working with deprived communities, etc - European community Project Duration: 24 months. The calendar of activities takes into account the school academic year. Expected outputs: IO1: SOS SCHOOL Training programme for teachers, children and school personnel IO2: A mobile and online wizard training application for emergency response training in various situations (incl. videos), and a self-assessment stress test (level of preparedness) Partnership: P1: Leading educational directorate from Greece (project coordinator) P2: Voluntary unit 112 - a municipality founded NGO who is responsible to support in cases of environmental disasters P3: Ecology driven SME who is developing ICT-based solutions towards ecology training realisation P4: Ecology consultancy body providing local non-formal courses P5: The biggest educational directorate from Istanbul, Turkey
By implementing the project, we aimed to: - Improve the social and civic skills of young children, their teachers and their families in: Identifying sources of danger Transforming a risk situation into a safe situation Recognizing risk situations How to act, evacuate and leave in a fast manner Providing good advice in case of accidents - Provide opportunities for schools to open up to their local community, its local organisations and work together with them in the implementation of the SOS school programme - Bring external stakeholders to the school establishments so that they also contribute to bringing up the future generation of responsible Europeans - Empower young children so that they feel more confident and responsible towards the society where they live - Facilitate the integration of students from communities at risk of exclusion by providing them with the skills and tools that they need to live in a secured environment - Make the school environment more attractive and avoid early school drop outs - Create an informal network of schools that will exchange experiences, teaching and learning methods and good practices that will continue to exist once the EU funding is over.
This project wanted to create awareness among European school children about the risks caused by disasters and emergencies, their prevention and the most important measures to put in place. Children are one of the most vulnerable target groups, especially children from underprivileged backgrounds (roma, immigrants, socio-economic problems, etc.). Through this project, a training course for school children that runs in the context of an SOS school campaign has been organised in Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey. Thereby, children not only have gained a better understanding about preventing and reacting in case of a emergency, but have also improved social and civic skills, feel more confident and responsible towards the society they live in. By participating in this project, the school opened themselves to new teaching and learning practices, providing the students a nice, fun and welcoming environment. The prorject addresses: - School staff: Teachers Headmasters Administrative staff Pedagogists, etc. - Local communities: Local authorities Fire brigades Hospitals Social workers NGOs working with deprived communities, etc. - Beneficiaries: Students from primary and secondary schools Parents and families European community as a whole