Within the project, NTM aimed to strengthen and working-out on the components of outdoor environmental education, providing participants to: - become aware of key points related to outdoor education and teaching outside classrooms; - learn how to design, plan and deliver inspirational outdoor education activities; - experience environmental and outdoor education working methods and approaches; - experiment practical activities and group games to entice learners and hold attention; - learn how to use outdoor education to improve self.confidence, team building, leadership etc...; - share experiences and best practices about outdoor education with education staff on an international level. Achieved objectives: -Awareness and sensitivity to the environment and environmental challenges -Knowledge and understanding of the environment and environmental challenges -Attitudes of concern for the environment and motivation to improve or maintain environmental quality -Skills to identify and help resolve environmental challenges -Participation in activities that lead to the resolution of environmental challenges. Through the done mobilities, NTM considers these objectives achieved.
The Environment.Skills I project came from the success of the last project and was aiming to make stronger that EE is a broad concept implying so many different aspects of life (personal, professional, etc.). Supported and encouraged by the Maltese Ministry of Education, NTM applied to the Environment.Skills I, with the aim to create a pool of staff-teachers capable in providing best possibilities for shaping people’s value orientations, this both through formal education, non-formal education and indirect shaping (from child to parent, etc). The project planned to moulde a new way to implement EE, showing as sustainable development is a system of knowledge, skills, attitudes and value orientations, which enables to making people conscious of the relations of the natural, economic, and socio-cultural environment, focusing thereby on the idea of sustainable development: - providing participants with tools, ideas and best practices as well as practical experience and knowledge on how to integrate outdoor education in formal education. - fostering excellence and innovation in education by equipping teachers and education staff with knowledge and skills to integrate outdoor education activities in education programmes.