The superior social aspect of this project is to shape coordination skills among young children in order to achieve a combined aim, which is a nature protection and rational exploiting of it. The objective of the project ‘Europe takes a breath’ is to familiarize the children with the issue connected with a low emission not only in the local but also global area. The problem of clean air has no limits and touches a lot of European regions. We want to achieve our aims in international alliance with five countries: Poland, Macedonia, Greece, Italy and Spain. These countries (or their regions) are marked with red spots on the European map because it often happens that the acceptable norms of clean air are exceeded there. Due to this fact, these countries are highly located in the rankings of the most polluted areas in Europe. Most people don’t consider this problem as important one and we have little awareness of how much depends on us, primarily, on our withdrawal of certain comfort and on apparent savings. We want to fight with low emission and equally low awareness of what we do not only to the environment but also to our health. We say STOP to low emission through both the influence on local communities and schooling our pupils – these are the people who will become the most aware users of nature and it is them who will be in charge of the further fate of the Earth in the future. Task realization goes on pupils’ practical actions, their cognitive and creative activity, as well as educating the teaching staff, who is to be a leader for the pupil in order to show a better tomorrow. We have planned to act systematically and consistently in each of the partner country while working on this project. We will talk about civilization threats and the ways how to counteract them. We will show what threats and problems we tackle in our regions and what we do to solve these problems. Being ‘on the edge of a chasm’ we will show the vision of the future, an optimistic and a pessimistic one. We want to deliberate what to do to live a better life, what changes to implement and what actions to take to build the better future. We are planning to organize five mobile meetings in Greece, Macedonia, Italy, Spain and Poland. There are going to be five-day trainings for teachers and pupils during these meetings. The trainings will have practical and experimental aspect, mainly art lessons, competitions, trips and language lessons. The project participants will be able to talk to representatives of local authorities and people working in the institutions dealing with ecology. The main overall of student trainings will be cooperation, study through collaboration, relationship creation, triggering joint initiatives, building plans for the future. Partnership, fraternity and strength of common interactions are prior for us. Thanks to them learning from each other can be interesting and inspiring. We want to show how low emission influences on nature and monuments in a destructive way. Our aim is to awake positive emotions in pupils. They will be eager to work in an active and practical way for the green revolution. These efforts will be supported by the teachers, who will gain new experience in terms of taking lessons and researching the above issues. We are going to broadcast few video-conferences in order to exchange experience and evaluate our activities. There will be the final consequence of previous actions such as a bank of ideas known as ‘The book of good ideas’, a dictionary full of ecological definitions connected with the subject of the project, an original program written by the teachers connected with the subject of clean air together with lesson plans as well as presentations showing our actions. The presentations will be useful to train different teachers from other schools and to promote the project at conferences. All the materials will be available on Facebook page, eTwinning and websites of partner schools. Everybody who is interested in the subject of air pollution can have a look there. The final products of the project will include a logo of the project, promotion materials (leaflets, invitations, posters), participation certifications and Europass Mobility. We hope that the project participants will become aware users of nature resources who will take care of the place where they live in an effective way not only in the region but also globally. They will identify with the environment in a more aware and mature way. They will know environmental threats and they will be well prepared to solve ecological problems.
The superior social aspect of this project was to shape coordination skills among young children in order to achieve a combined aim, which is a protection of environment and its rational exploiting. The project ‘Europe takes a breath’d familiarize the children with the issue connected with a low emission not only in the local but also global area as the problem of clean air has no limits and touches a lot of European regions. We achieved our aims in international alliance with five countries: Poland, Macedonia, Greece, Italy and Spain. These countries (or their regions) are marked with red spots on the European map because it often happens that the anot cceptable norms of clean air are exceeded there. Due to this fact, these countries are highly located in the rankings of the most polluted areas in Europe. Most people don’t consider this problem as important one and we have little awareness of how much depends on us, primarily, on our withdrawal of certain comfort and on apparent savings. Addressing the issue of low emission we introduced participants of the project to the consequences not only for the natural environment but also for people. We said STOP to low emission through both the influence on local communities and schooling our pupils – these are the people who will become the most aware users of nature resources and it is them who will be responsible for the future of the Earth. Task realization was based on pupils’ practical actions, their cognitive and creative activity, as well as educating the teaching staff, who will become a leader for the pupil in order to show a better tomorrow. We undertook cohesive and systematic actions in each partner country while working on this project. We talked about civilization threats and the ways to counteract them. We showed what threats and problems we tackle in our regions and what we do to solve them. Being ‘on the edge of a chasm’ we showed the vision of the future, an optimistic and a pessimistic one. We deliberated what to do to live a better life, what changes to implement and what actions to take to build the better future. We organized five mobilities in Greece, Macedonia, Italy, Spain and Poland 9two of them were conducted online, the other two in a hybryd way). During these meetings five-day trainings for teachers and pupils were organized. The trainings had practical and experimental aspect including art lessons, competitions, trips and language lessons. The project participants were able to talk to representatives of local authorities and people working in the institutions dealing with ecology. The main assumption of student trainings was cooperation, study through collaboration, relationship creation, triggering joint initiatives, building plans for the future. Partnership, fraternity and strength of common interactions were prior for us. Thanks to them learning from each other was interesting and inspiring. Showing the beauty of the countries – the nature, monuments, we showed how low emission influences them in a destructive way. Our actions awoke positive emotions in pupils and made them eager to work in an active and practical way to protect the environment. The teachers gained new experience in terms of conducting lessons and researching the above mentioned issues. We made several video-conferences in order to exchange experience and evaluate our activities. The results of joint work were The Book of Good Ideas, Dictionary of Ecological Terms connected with the subject of the project, an original Ecological Education Program written by the teachers connected with the subject of clean air together with lesson plans as well as presentations showing our actions. The presentations are useful to train different teachers from other schools and to promote the project at conferences. All the materials are available on Facebook page, eTwinning and websites of partner schools. Everybody who is interested in the subject of air pollution can have a look there. The final products of the project include a logo of the project, promotion materials (leaflets, invitations, posters), participation certificates and Europass Mobility. We are convinced that the project participants have become aware users of nature resources who take care of place where they live in an effective way not only in the region but also globally, who identify with the environment in a more aware and mature way and who know how to solve ecological problems.