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Reduce! Reuse! Recycle!

2020-1-IT02-KA229-0798272020School Exchange Partnershipsfinalized
Countries: IT|PT|EL|FR · Grant: €91,443
Health and wellbeingEnergy and resourcesICT - new technologies - digital competences

Project summary

Liceo Pascasino of Marsala (Italy) is the school coordinator of RRR project. The partners schools are -Escola Básica e Secundária de Santa Cruz, in Madeira (Portugal) -Collège Aimé Césaire, in Etang Sale, La Reunion (France) -1st EPAL of PSACHNA inDIrfys Messapion, Evia island (Greece). 4 schools are set in islands. The project will be focused on Sustainable Goals, in particular "Energy and resources", "Health and wellbeing", also considering the importance of "ICT - new technologies - digital competences". The most relevant horizontal priority is "Environmental and climate Goals", but also "Sustainable investment, quality and efficiency of education, training and youth systems", in order to make signs at schools and at home, at our territories, to urge others to take action, to engage students in pollution experiments. The SDGs we will focus on are 4 Quality Education 6 Clean Water and Sanitation 7 Affordable and Clean Energy 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth 9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities 12 Responsible Consumption and Production 13 Climate Action 14 Life Below Water 15 Life on Land The main objectives we would like to achieve and concrete results we would like to produce are -personal and public awareness of environmental issues, including the benefit of reducing, re-using and recycling of materials -to increase the number of students involved in recycling in our islands -to provide an effective voice and focal point for our communities recycling -to work towards a shared zero waste future -to increase education relating to REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE -to minimize environmental impact -to learn about citizenship competencies and the ability to act as responsible citizens and fully participate in civic and social life -to use creativity, critical thinking and problem solving to work collaboratively and transform ideas on the planet’s protection into action. Environmental education is a process aimed at improving the quality of life by empowering people with the tools they need to solve and prevent environmental problems. Environmental education can help people gain the knowledge, skills, motivation, values, and commitment they'll need to manage the earth's resources sustainably and to take responsibility for maintaining environmental quality. We can define Sustainability as the practice of meeting the needs of the current generation without degrading and destroying the natural resources: water, soil, biodiversity, oil, minerals and natural services as flood control, air purification, pollination. Future generations will need it. Our lives and economies are dependent on natural capital, which is made up of these natural resources and natural services, and the energy provided by the sun. There are so many easy ways to become more sustainable. We are all creatures of habit, and changing our behavior takes some time. As educators, small steps can be shown in order to find solutions and to make a positive difference in protecting our environment for our communities and your planet. We would take care of sustainable beaches and waterways, building and develolpment, energy and resources, landscapes, mobility and transportation, waste reduction and recycling, water and wildlife in our islands!. The project will accomplish its objectives by conducting activities in 5 main areas: 1- Project management that includes observing and assessment, risk management, financial management, cooperation and communication strategy that will be exercised for the whole duration of the project. 2- Implementation of activities throught the selection of participants, preparatory training sessions, participation in exchanges. 3- Elaboration of lessons, videos, practical activities, interviews, tasks, exercises, educational games, multimedia presentations, interactive maps, online quizzes, online collaborative groups, interactive images with music, sounds, texts, and photographs, learning methodologies that awaken the curiosity of students through interactive contents that can expand their knowledge, storytelling, interactive and artistic books, audiovisual contents about Sustainability Goals. Also, we will use different tools and software to realize our activities, video presentations, posters, brochures, cards, advertising manifestos, interviews, questionarries, digital story tellings, excercises, educational games: ANIMOTO FLIPGRID GOOGLE FORMS & CLASSROOM KAHOOT PADLET PEERGRADE QUIZLET SOCRATIVE EDMODO POWTON PREZI PINTEREST CANVA PENPALSCHOOL 4. Dissemination, uninterrupted process that includes sharing of both touchable and abstract results at local, regional, national and international levels, employing a series of channels and addressing school audiences. 5. Follow-up and sustainability: every school designates a group of teachers to apply the new methods. The project is designed to target 12-18 year-olds. We intend to design a a project account on the e Twinning platform

Final report summary

The project has been designed to target 12-18 year-olds. We have designed it on the e Twinning platform, making use of many digital tools about SDGs. Liceo Pascasino of Marsala (Italy) is the school coordinator of RRR project. The partners schools are: -Collège Aimé Césaire, in Etang Sale, La Reunion (France) -1st EPAL of PSACHNA inDIrfys Messapion, Evia island (Greece). The school "Escola Básica e Secundária de Santa Cruz",in Madeira (Portugal) decided to go out of the project because of the pandemy. The project has been focused on Sustainable Goals, in particular "Energy and resources", "Health and wellbeing", also considering the importance of "ICT - new technologies - digital competences". Our horizontal priority has been "Environmental and climate Goals", but we also concentrated our work on "Sustainable investment, quality and efficiency of education, training and youth systems". The language, teaching and training activities have been characterised by a series of workshops, laboratory activities, practical educational and teaching experiments, but also theoretical, applied, exploratory, descriptive, explanatory, qualitative and quantitative researches and studies on some of the SDGs Goals of Agenda 2030 N.4 Quality Education N.6 Clean Water and Sanitation N.7 Affordable and Clean Energy N.8 Decent Work and Economic Growth N.9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure N.11 Sustainable Cities and Communities N.12 Responsible Consumption and Production N.13 Climate Action N.14 Life Below Water N.15 Life on Land. We have fostered a collaborative work environment through various team-bonding initiatives,planning educational and entertaining sustainability activities for students between ages 14 and 18. The study and the research on SDGs Goals and targets have stimulated actions in areas of critical importance for humanity and the planet: we have spoken about PEOPLE, PLANET, PROSPERITY, PEACE and PARTNERSHIPS. We have worked in order to give our contribution to answer to the "call for action to change our world". All the physical meetings have seen the participation of students, teachers, parents, school staff, stakeholders of each partner's country discussing, working, reflecting on personal and public awareness of environmental issues, the benefits of reducing, re-using and recycling of materials, the willing to increase the number of people involved in recycling in our islands in order to: - provide an effective voice and focal point for our communities recycling - work towards a shared zero waste future - increase education relating to REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE - minimise environmental impact - learn about citizenship competencies and the ability to act as responsible citizens and fully participate in civic and social life - use creativity, critical thinking and problem solving to work collaboratively and transform ideas on the the protection of the planet into action. The basic outline of our project plan can be summarised in these six steps 1.definition of our project’s stakeholders, the scopes, the quality baseline, the deliverables, the milestones, the possible success criteria and the requirements. We have created a project charter, a work breakdown structure and a statement of work and activities in accordance with our partners countries. 2.identification of risks and assignment of deliverables to our team members who have performed the required tasks and monitored the risks associated with them. 3.organization of our project team (teachers, students, accompanying persons, families, school staff, experts, customers, stakeholders, teams, ad hoc members, and so on), and definition of their roles and responsibilities 4.planning of all the necessary project resources, such as personnel, equipment, materials, then estimating their cost 5.by developing a change management procedures and forms 6.by creating a communication plan, schedule, budget and other guiding documents for the project (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Y2MPz_BoL4jo55frEnK6NGlz1CJhswAv?usp=share_link) Wehave included lessons, videos, practical activities, interviews, tasks, exercises, educational games, multimedia presentations, interactive maps, online quizzes, online collaborative groups, interactive images with music, sounds, texts, and photographs, learning methodologies that awaken the curiosity of students through interactive contents that can expand their knowledge, storytelling, interactive and artistic books, audiovisual contents about Sustainability Goals. Also, we used different tools and software to realise our activities, video presentations, posters, brochures, cards, advertising manifestos, interviews, questionnaires, digital story tellings, exercises, educational games, using ANIMOTO, FLIPGRID, GOOGLE FORMS & CLASSROOM, KAHOOT, PADLET, PEERGRADE, QUIZLET, POWTOON, PREZI, PINTEREST, CANVA and PENPAL SCHOOL. Outputs and results are disseminated employing a series of channels and addressing school audiences.

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