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European manual for active environmental protection

2020-1-DE03-KA229-0772522020School Exchange Partnershipsfinalized
Countries: DE|PL|HR|CZ · Grant: €114,530.2
Disabilities - special needsEnvironment and climate changeAccess for disadvantaged

Project summary

The basic idea of the future Erasmus-Partnership of an intercultural model to create inclusion and a special kind of participation in society for children and students with special needs arose during the current Erasmus mobility activity and was developed by teachers and students. It is a result of the good cooperation between the involved schools. The project focuses to strengthen the awareness for the environment of our students referring to their special needs. The new project will help the students to defend themselves against acts of exclusion, intolerance and xenophobia. The proposals are multi-layered and will help the students to develop their own personality, to improve their competences and skills, in addition to strengthen their responsibility for nature and the environment. The approach to natural resources, ecosystems and the protection against negative circumstances of a natural habitat are now central aspects for our students. Furthermore, the project will help to reduce the amount of early school leavers. The realisation that a good life now and in the future corresponds to an entire environment is the base line in every activity. The students participate actively in our society and help to implement the preservation of nature. The nature and the landscape are the baseline for our existence. Consequently, they need to be protected. In addition, we need to ensure sustainability to realise a balance between the current and future life. The project will be organised interdisciplinary and across forms and will involve the whole school. In the forefront, local clubs and organisations appear in the respective schools and present their environmental profile. During the activities multinational thinking and acting as well as sympathy and understanding for each other will be promoted. Every student does a workshop including local proposals which imply the resulting and inclusive ideas to document especially the social participation. Consequently, we have a selection of a European diversity in all partner regions, which gives an insight into the corresponding profiles. Lesnica (Poland) protection of forests and recycling Rudolstadt recycling and renewable energies Pula (Croatia) protection and preservation of the sea – Adria Stribro (Czech) the use of water as a source of energy Puck (Poland) environmentalism at the island Hel- Baltic Sea During each mobility every student has to create his or her individual certificate. They will be able to take photos and make short movies independently. These media skills will help to create their individual certificate of attendance including the logo which will be the basis and the result of the first meeting. The logo will be the badge of our project and each student will get a T-Shirt with our symbol. At the same time, we explore in companionship new ways of learning and learning methods, learn about specific and local activities. We also get to know special features of the European countries, work practice-oriented and achieve the opportunity of European conferencing. Collective practice-oriented working shall generate respect and acceptance for several impairments, together with other lifestyle habits accompanied by the national characteristics in regard of environmentalism, ecology, diversity of species and territory. Basic features of our project for sustainability are aspect of saving water and energy, recycling of material, nutrition and of course waiver of plastics and disposable products. These aspects are going to be established and developed during the two years of our project. Learn basis and learn cause generate the issue of an “European handbook for active environmentalism”. The handbook presents country specific core themes. The resulting handbook will be used as a basis for future students of each school to draw interest to a certain environmental issue. The experiences, which the traveling group (6 students/ 3 teachers) gathers in the partner school, can be passed on in a full to the other participants directly. A scorecard for active environmentalism and sustainability was created corporately and will be used by our corresponding firms and institutions in form of a pollution badge which was created by the students themselves. That will guarantee an intense cooperation. We will use our own homepage, European platforms and E-twinning to present our activities and to support the dissemination of our results. The participation in that project is an amazing advantage for our students and a chance to get to know parts of Europe. For most of them it is the only way to go abroad and get to know these activities, countries and traditions. The sustainability is granted throughout the media representation. Additionally, the project will be included into the conception of the respective schools.

Final report summary

The basic idea of the future Erasmus-Partnership of an intercultural model to create inclusion and a special kind of participation in society for children and students with special needs arose during the current Erasmus mobility activity and was developed by teachers and students. It has a result of the good cooperation between the involved schools. The project focused to strengthen the awareness for the environment of our students referring to their special needs. The new project helped the students to defend themselves against acts of exclusion, intolerance and xenophobia. The proposals were multi-layered and will help the students to develop their own personality, to improve their competences and skills, in addition to strengthen their responsibility for nature and the environment. The approach to natural resources, ecosystems and the protection against negative circumstances of a natural habitat were now central aspects for our students. Furthermore, the project helped to reduce the amount of early school leavers. The realisation that a good life now and in the future corresponds to an entire environment was the base line in every activity. The students participated actively in our society and helped to implement the preservation of nature. The nature and the landscape are the baseline for our existence. Consequently, they need to be protected. In addition, we need to ensure sustainability to realise a balance between the current and future life. The project was organised interdisciplinary and across forms and involved the whole school. In the forefront, local clubs and organisations appeared in the respective schools and presented their environmental profile. During the activities multinational thinking and acting as well as sympathy and understanding for each other wsd promoted. Every student did a workshop including local proposals which imply the resulting and inclusive ideas to document especially the social participation. Consequently, we had a selection of a European diversity in all partner regions, which gave an insight into the corresponding profiles. Lesnica (Poland) protection of forests and recycling Rudolstadt recycling and renewable energies Pula (Croatia) protection and preservation of the sea – Adria Stribro (Czech) the use of water as a source of energy Schweich environmental protection, recycling, sustainability ( school in Puck cancelled their participation ) During each mobility every student had to create his or her individual certificate. They were able to take photos and made short movies independently. These media skills helped to create their individual certificate of attendance including the logo which was the basis and the result of the first meeting. The logo was the badge of our project and each student got a T-Shirt with our symbol. We explored in companionship new ways of learning and learning methods, learn about specific and local activities. We also get to know special features of the European countries, work practice-oriented and achieve the opportunity of European conferencing. Collective practice-oriented working shall generate respect and acceptance for several impairments, together with other lifestyle habits accompanied by the national characteristics in regard of environmentalism, ecology, diversity of species and territory. Basic features of our project for sustainability are aspect of saving water and energy, recycling of material, nutrition and of course waiver of plastics and disposable products. These aspects are going to be established and developed during the two years of our project. Learn basis and learn cause generate the issue of an “European handbook for active environmentalism”. The handbook presents country specific core themes. The resulting handbook will be used as a basis for future students of each school to draw interest to a certain environmental issue. The experiences, which the traveling group (6 students/ 3 teachers) gathers in the partner school, can be passed on in a full to the other participants directly. A scorecard for active environmentalism and sustainability was created corporately and will be used by our corresponding firms and institutions in form of a pollution badge which was created by the students themselves. That will guarantee an intense cooperation. We will use our own homepage, European platforms and E-twinning to present our activities and to support the dissemination of our results. The participation in that project is an amazing advantage for our students and a chance to get to know parts of Europe. For most of them it is the only way to go abroad and get to know these activities, countries and traditions. The sustainability is granted throughout the media representation. Additionally, the project will be included into the conception of the respective schools.

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