Our project 21st century EARTH guardians was designed to promote the importance of environmental protection with a special emphasis on the protection of aquatic ecosystems to which our three countries, Romania, Serbia and Italy, and our three cities have been enriched. Our goal was to discover new methods and ways of working with students of our schools, in order to point to this problem that we encounter daily. Two teachers from each country would participate in mobility with five students, when activities will be organized, with the implementation of Lab camps. First of all, at the first meeting, two professors from every country will come to Serbia, where they would discuss in detail the activities and ways of preparing the Lab camp. Through interesting activities and the organization of Lab Camps, students would have a clearer approach to this topic and would pay more attention to the environment. Students would become nature guardians, as well as peer educators, who would further spread their knowledge. Teachers of this project would show new ways and methods of working with students, and how to enrich their practical work. Schools would expand their acquaintances and become partners with whom they could continue to cooperate and exchange ideas and experiences. The school would spread tolerance and continue to nurture interculturality. At the end of the realization of all mobilities, we will prepare results about the state of the environment and aquatic ecosystems in our country, ie in Italy, Romania and Serbia. We will present the results on the school website, the presentations that we organize for the public, and the development of a teacher handbook on how to build a Lab camp for students.
With the realization of this project, we wanted to improve our knowledge and skills and to unite all this through one specific tool, which is our manual that will serve all other colleagues as a good example of work.Teachers will be able to apply new methods of work and learning in this way, thus checking the performance of new methods, and improving their knowledge. It is particularly important to exchange experiences that we have already developed. In this way, schools will be able to create cooperation and strengthen their capacities based on the experience of other schools and countries from abroad. Together we will get some new and better working methods. Classes will become more innovative and, therefore, students will be more interested in science and learning. We will meet with colleagues from other countries and exchange experiences with examples of good practice, as well as through practical work to show. Students will get acquainted with other cultures and will have the opportunity to get to know each other and find out how their peers are similar or different. They will exchange their knowledge and may come up with some interesting ideas that could be realized at school.
We applied for this project in order to expand our horizons, improve our competencies, professionally improve, but also find new methods and ways of working. We realized that this is an ideal opportunity for teachers and students to get involved, learn something new, exchange experiences with colleagues and peers from other EU countries. Learning and finding new ways of working were our main goals, which we succeeded in doing by teaching in nature. For students, the classic way of working is very monotonous and this was an ideal opportunity for them to see how teaching takes place in other countries to help teachers come to a solution together. To dedicate themselves to the natural sciences, and to transfer their knowledge to other peers from their environment.We would like to join this project because we think that our students are not enough interested in this precious resource and , for this reason, we would like to make them more responsible for a better use of water. Participation in such projects is to learn and benefit at the same time. International projects bring new knowledge, new capabilities, exchange of ideas, transfer of creative practices, access to new teaching materials, language training and language development in real contexts. This project is of particular importance to us because it enables us to exchange our ideas and knowledge interchangeably, and to apply new methods and modes of operation.