I In the current context where record-breaking meteorological phenomena are occurring, where we find that some scientists who associate climate change with the outbreak of pandemics, education is essential for students to grow aware that resources are limited and that everything we do has a direct impact on the planet. Our students are especially sensitive to these issues. Education is the critical element that allows awareness and evolution in all issues that affect climate change. For this reason, this project has been aligned with the 2030 Agenda, which sets the Sustainable Development Goals set in its goal 4.7, where it is intended that citizens acquire the theoretical and practical knowledge necessary to promote sustainable development, among others, through education for sustainable lifestyles. And also, its goal 13.3: Improve education, awareness and human and institutional capacity regarding climate change mitigation, adaptation, reduction of its effects and early warning. This project arose from the need to provide answers to new generations and to offer innovative training to our students. This need has been shared by all the participant partners. The consortium has been coordinated by Colegio Engeba (Spain), with the participation of Agrupamento de Escolas de Portela e Moscavide (Portugal), Instituto Compresivo Statale Padre Pino Puglisi (Italy), Vzgojno-Izobrazevalni Zavod Osnovna Sola Rogatec y la Asociacion de Investigacion de la Industria del Juguete, Conexas y Afines (Spain - better known as the Technological Institute for children's products & leisure). Four schools and a technology centre in four European countries. This project "We R the World" aimed to transform the educational centre into a sustainable place. A Guide with 20 topics has been created to explain climate change and the limitation of natural resources to students in the last grades of primary school. These topics has been completed with 40 practical activities and 40 revisions of these activities. On the other hand, a second intellectual product has been a gamified platform where the students themselves will create their animations, mini-video games and interactive activities using Scratch. This platform is guided by the main mission of “saving the planet”, where teachers have prepared 40 "missions" as templates for their students. The objectives overcame by the project are patent in aspects related to the application of the training received by the teachers in educating and raising their students about climate change, proposing sustainable practices at school and at home. Another aspect achieved is the compendium of intangible results obtained in the form of awareness amongst our students and, in general the whole educational community, in matters of energy saving, recycling, pollution, preservation of green spaces promoting a change in the model of society, improving their key competencies by adapting them to the needs of the XXI century. As for the immediate results of the project, we can find the two intellectual outputs developed and mentioned in the previous section: the Teaching Guide with 40 activities plus 40 activities revisions with 20 topics to explain climate change and the limitation of natural resources to students in the last grades of primary school, and the Gamified Platform with 40 mini-video games and interactive activities using Scratch, whose main mission is to “save the planet”. Intangible results were also obtained in the form of awareness about the sustainability necessary to promote a change in the model of society. Students learnt concepts such as diversity, solidarity, equality, equity, and the globalization of problems. All this faced consumerism and environmental exploitation. The objective for students was to build their own “learning by doing” project in activities that they will have to work collaboratively, promoting teamwork and inclusion. Gender considerations were addressed as well, since, traditionally, girls are less interested in STEM projects. We have achieved an awareness amongst our students and their families about energy saving, recycling, pollution, preservation of green spaces… In general, our students achieved a care for the planet, allowing them to develop critical thinking useful for their development.
By implementing this project, we wanted to achieve several aspects. Firstly, all the interested schools and teachers were able to apply their training in educating and raising their students about climate change, proposing sustainable practices at school and at home. Another aspect we wanted to achieve by putting this in practice, is the compendium of intangible results obtained in the form of awareness amongst our students and, in general the whole educational community, in matters of energy saving, recycling, pollution, preservation of green spaces... This is to say, the second achievement is to promote awareness to promote a change in the model of society, improving their key competencies by adapting them to the needs of the XXI century.
In the current context where record-breaking meteorological phenomena are constantly occurring, where we find that some scientists who associate climate change with the outbreak of pandemics, education is essential for students to grow well aware that resources are limited and that everything we do has a direct impact on the planet. Our students are especially sensitive to these issues and education should be the critical element that allows this awareness and evolution in all issues that affect climate change. This project, which is aligned with the 2030 Agenda in where the Sustainable Development Goals developed by the United Nations are settled, arises from the need to provide answers to new generations and to offer innovative training to our students. This need is shared by all project partners (four schools and a technology centre in four European countries). Thus, this project "We R the World" aims to transform the educational centre into a sustainable place.