The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is an action plan for people’s prosperity, world peace, sustainable management and development. Those universal goals and targets inspired six schools from six countries (Turkey as the project coordinator, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Romania and Spain) whose students (aged 6-12) and teachers mutually agreed and decided to implement this plan and to embark on a great collective journey. An educational journey in which all countries and all stakeholders act in collaborative partnership and focus on the need to recycle and on the unprecedented significance of environmental preservation and sustainability. A project that puts into practice European values and priorities and sets out to profoundly transform the world for the better so that everyone’s life will be improved. A project that spreads the word that protecting our planet is our responsibility and education has a key role in the establishment of European values based on sustainable development. The European Project “Recycle today for a better tomorrow” puts forward as its main purpose, to bring multiple meaningful changes to the behaviour and attitudes of all the educational communities of all participating countries. Changes that will form a new, environmentally friendly mindset with commonly shared goals and aims across nations, languages and cultures. All participants have pledged to raise awareness about environmental issues and in particular to follow the 8Rs: Reduce, Replace, Reuse, Recycle, Recover, Refuse and Reject, Rethink, and decrease the use of non-biodegradable materials. The project will help all participants to explore the use of ICT as a communication tool, exchange cultural information, improve their communicative skills in English, learn some basic greetings and acquire some basic communicative skills in the 6 foreign languages of the 6 participating countries. By favouring respect and acceptance of diversity it will bring all cultures closer, fostering democracy and pluralism. It will facilitate the internationalization of our schools, the promotion of our European conscience, sense of citizenship and identity. Students will feel part of a large group of countries united by the same goals, needs and values. The project’s activities aim to reveal the multiple, often irreversible, catastrophic consequences of people’s indifference towards environmental problems. They urge the students, their families and the general public to envisage the world as we would like it to be: free of pollution and waste. Their ultimate goal is to raise students’ awareness so that they will be responsible citizens who do their best to protect the environment. The activities planned range from teaching sessions and workshops for making recycled paper and building a Solar oven for cooking to literary endeavours such as writing short stories, little poems and mottos. From contests among the final educational products of the participants, such as, songs, paintings, logos and posters to educational games and singing. Recycling workshops are arranged. Students and teachers will visit recycling plants, landfill sites, factories and waste management facilities. During the whole project, students will gather paper, plastic, aluminium and other recyclable materials to send and sell them to recycling factories. Profits earned will be donated to a charity organisation. Sport tournaments will be arranged to promote our motto“zero waste”. Students will participate in meetings on recycling and will create digital products as a result of the knowledge acquired (digital presentations, video-promo, infographics etc.) using ICT. The e-Twinning platform will be used as a means of communication, collaboration and diffusion among the participating schools. The activities planned in our project will be developed through an active, experimental, experiential and cooperative methodology, fostering CLIL approach in order to improve the pupils’ communicative and cross curricular competence. Students will work in mixed groups consisting of all countries, so that European citizenship, democratic values and respect among different cultures are actively enhanced. The project is planned and organized in order to educate students and help them develop positive behaviours and attitudes towards environmental respect. It aims at ensuring everyone’s active participation in the improvement of our world by collaborating for its maintenance and conservation. It sets out to raise awareness about the urgent need to recycle, reuse and reduce the use of non-biodegradable materials. To offer knowledge and data that will persuade all participants that we must all contribute if we want to reach the ultimate goal: sustainability. To guide students to form a global citizenship awareness of their personal responsibility and a sense of their common European identity. To make them realise that they are part of a family united by the same goals.
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was an action plan for people’s prosperity, world peace, sustainable management and development. Those universal goals and targets inspired six schools from six countries (Turkey as the project coordinator, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Romania and Spain) whose students (aged 6-12) and teachers mutually agreed and decided to implement this plan and to embark on a great collective journey. An educational journey in which all countries and all stakeholders acted in collaborative partnership and focused on the need to recycle and on the unprecedented significance of environmental preservation and sustainability. A project that put into practice European values and priorities and sets out to profoundly transform the world for the better so that everyone’s life were been improved. A project that spread the word that protecting our planet was our responsibility and education had a key role in the establishment of European values based on sustainable development. The European Project “Recycle today for a better tomorrow” put forward as its main purpose, to bring multiple meaningful changes to the behaviour and attitudes of all the educational communities of all participating countries. Changes that formed a new, environmentally friendly mindset with commonly shared goals and aims across nations, languages and cultures. All participants had pledged to raise awareness about environmental issues and in particular to follow the 8Rs: Reduce, Replace, Reuse, Recycle, Recover, Refuse and Reject, Rethink, and decrease the use of non-biodegradable materials. The project helped all participants to explore the use of ICT as a communication tool, exchange cultural information, improve their communicative skills in English, learn some basic greetings and acquire some basic communicative skills in the 6 foreign languages of the 6 participating countries. By favouring respect and acceptance of diversity it brought all cultures closer, fostering democracy and pluralism. It facilitated the internationalization of our schools, the promotion of our European conscience, sense of citizenship and identity. Students felt part of a large group of countries united by the same goals, needs and values. The project’s activities aimed to reveal the multiple, often irreversible, catastrophic consequences of people’s indifference towards environmental problems. They urged the students, their families and the general public to envisage the world as we would like it to be: free of pollution and waste. Their ultimate goal was to raise students’ awareness so that they will be responsible citizens who did their best to protect the environment. The activities planned range from teaching sessions and workshops for making recycled paper and building a Solar oven for cooking to literary endeavours such as writing short stories, little poems and mottos. From contests among the final educational products of the participants, such as, songs, paintings, logos and posters to educational games and singing. Recycling workshops were arranged. Students and teachers visited recycling plants, landfill sites, factories and waste management facilities. During the whole project, students gathered paper, plastic, aluminium and other recyclable materials. Sport tournaments were be arranged to promote our motto“zero waste”. Students participated in meetings on recycling and created digital products as a result of the knowledge acquired (digital presentations, video-promo, infographics etc.) using ICT. The e-Twinning platform was used as a means of communication, collaboration and diffusion among the participating schools. The activities planned in our project will be developed through an active, experimental, experiential and cooperative methodology, fostering CLIL approach in order to improve the pupils’ communicative and cross curricular competence. Students worked in mixed groups consisting of all countries, so that European citizenship, democratic values and respect among different cultures were actively enhanced. The project was planned and organized in order to educate students and help them develop positive behaviours and attitudes towards environmental respect. It aimed at ensuring everyone’s active participation in the improvement of our world by collaborating for its maintenance and conservation. It set out to raise awareness about the urgent need to recycle, reuse and reduce the use of non-biodegradable materials. To offer knowledge and data that persuaded all participants that we must all contribute if we want to reach the ultimate goal: sustainability. To guide students to form a global citizenship awareness of their personal responsibility and a sense of their common European identity. To make them realise that they are part of a family united by the same goals.