The 24 months’ project “Tomorrow Is In Our Hands” has been constructed with the French coordinator and the partnership of Spain, Czech R., Bulgaria and Turkey. The reason of the project is that industrialization, globalization efforts, climate change, pollution, rapid population growth and wars destroy the natural environment and genetic sources, this subject takes place in our curriculum superficially, and also students and the public do not make enough efforts for sustainable future. Our objectives are; to make students the individuals who research, query, are curious, think ciritically, focus on sustainable improvement adding scientific, geographical, mathematical and technological skills with biodiversity and environment into the science curriculum; to increase the sensitivity of the students and communities about saving the biodiversity and sustainable usage in order to divert ecological richness into economical; to make effort to secure the needs of the future generations, leave a livable natural, physical and social environment to them, to struggle against the threatenings that biological diversity is exposed to for life long; to provoke teachers and students to learn local biodiversity, know closely, appreciate ans support; to develop concrete action plans at our schools to save natural heritage and biodiversity. The target group of the project is the students who are 9-12 years old, whose science skills are low and who couldn’t develop enough attitude and habit to protect living species and the public groups.The total number of the mobilities at the end of 2 years is 71 students, 40 staff. Learning biodiversity of the schools in partner schools and of their own schools, developing active methods for sustainable usage of ecosystems, discovering different habitats, plants, bugs and other by seeing livings that feed them, writing experience and observation about science, environment and biodiversity in the blogs, making interviews with families who make a living of fishing, preparing biodiversity maps, creating Nature’ Superheroes Biodiversity Comic Book, organizing biodiversity campaigns, watching interaction of pets with natural life, restoration of habitats, and biodiversity of sea livings port interior, participating annuel photo contest and sharing best practices with partner schools are our project activities. Partner schools will act in accordance with 24 months’ work and dissemination plan. With this project; students will develop a deeper understanding and appreciate of the complex mechanism of the ecosystems that we are a part. Biodiversity knowledge will help students make positive selections for a sustainable future; Students will clutch how to use the sources sustainably better and develop a more positive attitude for the sources in the World. They will develop how daily small actions save our natural environment; Participant schools will include new action plan into their strategic plans; Participant schools will place practices about recognition of biodiversity, saving it and developing positive attitude with interdisciplines approach into science class curriculum and provoke students to be more conscious European cThe personnel of participant institutions develop international cooperation, examine the curriculum of each other, attend common activities, produce effective solutions to save our planet, observe good practices in place to increase biodiversity awareness, gain professional experience in European level and they will be more enthusiastic to build new cooperations in future. Students will develop transferable skills and enrich their knowledge of biodiversity. Participants will desire to develop cooperation with local, national or international institutions and play an active role to produce solutions against threatenings that destroy the living species of our planet.Good practices and activities will develop professional skills of participant personnel and they will provoke them to do better. Our schools will include an ecologic, economic and sustainable action plan into their strategic plans. Within planning, positive behaviour changes and ecologic life habit will be aimed by the way of activities. So active participation and taking place in environmental certificate programme, Unicef Walk, Eco-Schools programme can be thought. The process of related subjects in science will go on with students’ observation and research in nature.
The “Tomorrow is in our hands” project was built in collaboration between the French coordinator and the partnership of Spain, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria and Turkey. Due to the global Covid-19 health crisis, our project was extended and took place over 28 months. Our objectifs are: - make students individuals who research, question, are curious, think critically, focus on sustainable improvement. We wanted this work to be transversal by adding scientific, geographic, mathematical and technological skills in our approach around biodiversity and the environment; - increase the awareness of students and communities on the safeguard of biodiversity and sustainable use in order to divert ecological wealth into economic terms; - strive to guarantee the needs of future generations, leave them a natural, physical and social environment that is livable, fight against the threats to which biological diversity is exposed; - allow teachers and students to learn about their local biodiversity, get to know it up close; - develop concrete action plans in our schools to safeguard the natural heritage and biodiversity. The target group of the project is made up of pupils aged 9 to 12, whose scientific skills are weak and who have not been able to develop enough attitudes and habits to protect living species. Teachers and the community of each establishment are also targeted by the project. Our various actions have enabled everyone to learn about biodiversity and the ecosystems that surround them, but also about those of partner schools, to develop actions and gestures to preserve ecosystems, to discover different animals, plants, insects on the way. of disappearance or in danger, to write experiences and observations on the environment and biodiversity in blogs or school newspapers, to enrich the twinspace of the project through their actions, to create Nature 'Superheroes comics Biodiversity, organize biodiversity campaigns, participate in the annual photo competition and share best practices with partner schools in our project. Partner schools acted in accordance with a 28-month work and dissemination plan. We succeeded in maintaining the planned actions as well as the mobility. All the partners could not be present because of the pandemic, but we have developed more digital work by setting up virtual mobility and video-conferences when it is useful. Thanks to this project, the pupils were able to acquire a better knowledge of ecosystems and biodiversity. They have developed strategies and actions to preserve it and raise public awareness in this way. This now enables them to make positive choices for a sustainable future. . They know that their little daily actions can help preserve our natural environment. The pupils also acquired a better knowledge of the EU, they learned a lot about the partner countries and they feel close to each other. This project made it possible to develop fraternity between each of the partners. The participating schools have developed practices on the recognition of biodiversity throughout the project. The exchanges of practices between teachers within the framework of the project have also made it possible to make learning on these themes more effective. This has enabled good practices to be put in place to raise awareness of biodiversity and its conservation in the EU. They have thus acquired professional experience at European level and they are enthusiastic about the idea of building new cooperation in the future. This enthusiasm is shared by the local institutions that have been involved in the project. Our establishments will continue to include an ecological and sustainable action plan in their strategic plans. Because the results of the project are positive: the partnership worked well, each partner was able to collaborate and advance the project at its own level and together. The exchanges were rich between the pupils and the teachers. The actions brought about positive behavior changes and ecological lifestyles were developed through activities offered within the framework of the project. These actions are perpetuated within establishments: biodiversity photo competition, coastal cleaning, awareness-raising of the local community, sponsorship of endangered animals, implementation in sorting establishments, gardens, compost, etc. The partners want to renew the experience of an Erasmus + project, just like the pupils, their families and local institutions.