Everything can be recycled, except the Earth - it is the title of our project, which focuses on the current issue around us - recycling and environment protection. We are a project team of six countries from different corners of Europe. Our project is an answer to our pupils´ and teachers´ needs. The main aim of our project is to increase the awareness about environment protection and recycling among pupils and other school staff members through various creative and innovative activities, increasing participants’ knowledge about other countries and cultures, developing social and intercultural competencies, increasing competences in ICT and foreign languages. To get the project aims in all partners’ organizations, we will introduce methods of non-formal education by promoting equity and inclusion and reducing disparities in learning. We are going to introduce such activities that will address culture and social diversity, actions involving students with disadvantaged backgrounds(social and economic obstacles) and minorities. Taking part in the project activities and creating the common products, participants will become aware of the importance of recycling, reducing and reusing waste materials, moreover, they will become tolerant of other nationalities. They will better understand the differences and similarities between cultures and break stereotypes. The participants will get the knowledge but also practice about different educational systems and good practices in recycling around project team schools. With our project we would like to achieve for pupils and teachers: - raising an open debate on the benefits and risks of recycling and environmental protection - recognize the problem of recycling more efficiently and promote it more effectively - promoting critical, peer, initiative and experiential teaching and learning - closer involvement of laic and the professional public in school activities - more purposeful and conceptual involvement of interdisciplinary and cross-sectional relationships in innovative problem-solving - the return of natural elements to the local community - fight stereotypes and increase inclusion, tolerance, mutual understanding, and future international cooperation We intend to achieve the aims in cooperation with all project schools. We are sure that the project teams will exchange good practices and way know-how between all partners. The methods and techniques of working in the project are interesting and innovative both for pupils and teachers. The work in the project is provided through integrated approaches and is incorporated into the partners’ school programme, according to the project plan. The target group consists of pupils aged 10 - 14 where disadvantaged pupils are also included as well as learners and teachers who want to develop their personal and professional possibilities. Doing the project and creating outcomes, participants will increase their competences, motivation, and satisfaction in school work. Teachers and pupils who want to participate in project activities are not discriminated according to age or sex. They all have the same possibility to participate. What is necessary is their motivation to work on project tasks, fulfill the objectives of the project and their effort to implement and disseminate the project, and also to ensure the sustainability of the project by applying of gained know-how into the educational process in each project school. Working in international groups, leading multicultural dialogues and sharing ideas and knowledge will be the irreplaceable source of innovations, developing critical thinking, non-formal education, peer learning. The project's innovation lies mainly in its cross-sectional nature - across all subjects, methods, and ages - from direct teaching, field teaching, direct meetings with professionals to support active pupil access to self-interpretation of recycling and environmental issues through creative workshops and creative drama. These are activities that can be carried out in parallel in several subjects, not only within one subject, as in traditional teaching. In order to achieve these goals, there will be workshops that are focused on the pupils, enabling them to contribute ideas and put them to good use. For this purpose, we will use the following resources (input): -experts -questionnaires - informal meetings -presentations and reports -good examples of environment-friendly companies indicators and measurements: e.g. self-assessment, participants project diaries, questionnaires, successful implementation of the project activities into the curriculum, open lessons, different products: project logo, poem book with illustrations, e-booklet, slogans, worksheets, music CD, film, toys and other handmade objects, posters, postcards, video blogs, etc. The project of the topic is relevant to the priorities of the Erasmus + programme and Agenda 2030, it is cross-sectional, sustainable and participatory.
Everything can be recycled, except the Earth - it is the title of our project, which focused on the current issue around us - recycling and environment protection. We were a project team of six countries from different corners of Europe. The main aim of our project was to increase the awareness about environment protection and recycling among pupils and other school staff members through various creative and innovative activities, increasing participants’ knowledge about other countries and cultures, developing social and intercultural competencies, increasing competences in ICT and foreign languages. To get the project aims in all partners’ organizations, we introduced methods of non-formal education by promoting equity and inclusion and reducing disparities in learning. We introduced such activities that addressed culture and social diversity, actions involving students with disadvantaged backgrounds (social and economic obstacles) and minorities. Taking part in the project activities and creating the common products, participants became aware of the importance of recycling, reducing and reusing waste materials, moreover, they became tolerant of other nationalities. They better understood the differences and similarities between cultures and break stereotypes. The participants got the knowledge but also practice about different educational systems and good practices in recycling around project team schools. With our project we achieved for pupils and teachers: - raising an open debate on the benefits and risks of recycling and environmental protection - recognition of the problem of recycling more efficiently and more effective promotion - promoting critical, peer, initiative and experiential teaching and learning - closer involvement of laic and the professional public in school activities - more purposeful and conceptual involvement of interdisciplinary and cross-sectional relationships in innovative problem-solving - the return of natural elements to the local community - fighting stereotypes and increase inclusion, tolerance, mutual understanding, and future international cooperation We intended to achieve the aims in cooperation with all project schools. We achieved that the project teams exchanged good practices and way know-how between all partners. The methods and techniques of working in the project were interesting and innovative both for pupils and teachers. The work in the project was provided through integrated approaches and was incorporated into the partners’ school programme, according to the project plan. The target group consisted of pupils aged 10 - 14 where disadvantaged pupils were also included as well as learners and teachers who wanted to develop their personal and professional possibilities. Doing the project and creating outcomes, participants increased their competences, motivation, and satisfaction in school work. Teachers and pupils who wanted to participate in project activities were not discriminated according to age or sex. They all had the same possibility to participate. What was necessary was their motivation to work on project tasks, fulfil the objectives of the project and their effort to implement and disseminate the project, and also to ensure the sustainability of the project by applying of gained know-how into the educational process in each project school. Working in international groups, leading multicultural dialogues and sharing ideas and knowledge was the irreplaceable source of innovations, developing critical thinking, non-formal education, peer-learning. The project's innovation lied mainly in its cross-sectional nature - across all subjects, methods, and ages - from direct teaching, field teaching, direct meetings with professionals to support active pupil access to self-interpretation of recycling and environmental issues through creative workshops and creative drama. These were activities that could be carried out in parallel in several subjects, not only within one subject, as in traditional teaching. In order to achieve these goals, there were workshops that were focused on the pupils, enabling them to contribute ideas and put them to good use. For this purpose, we will use the following resources (input): -experts -questionnaires - informal meetings -presentations and reports -good examples of environment-friendly companies - indicators and measurements: self-assessment, participants project diaries, questionnaires, successful implementation of the project activities into the curriculum, open lessons, different products: project logo, illustrated poem book, instruction e-booklets, slogans, worksheets, video blogs, music clip, animated short film, toys and other handmade objects, posters, postcards, etc, December activities album, certificates from CODE WEEK, AI CODING, The project of the topic was relevant to the priorities of the Erasmus + program and Agenda 2030, it was cross-sectional, sustainable and participatory.