This short term exchanges of groups of pupils project, “Students against extinction” will last two years. The partners have been chosen from different types of secondary schools - vocational schools, general schools, public and private schools, from different geographical areas, diversity and colourfulness of their cultures, ways of life, ways of cooperation, school descriptions, experiences through eTwinning and some other partner search platforms as the biodiversity is needed for our project. Therefore, the partnership consists of the secondary schools from Slovakia as the coordinator and Czech Republic, Latvia, Turkey, Greece, Spain as partners. We will organise 6 LTT activities/mobilities. Every mobility will be 6 days + 1 day for travel and each school will be host once. There will be at least 4 pupils aged 14-19 years old and 2 responsible teachers from each school. The project language will be English. Distribution of the topics, tasks and workshops according to the SWOT analysis during the preparation phase is; Slovakia; History of Beekeeping; Website; Bee Game Czech Republic; Food, Agriculture and Food Waste; Social media accounts; Living in Erasmus+ world Latvia; Consumerism and Waste; e-Twinning and video conferences; Effective communication, European Citizenship Greece; Urban Agriculture; Multilingual Dictionary; Natural Disasters and protecting environment Spain; Recycling and Renewable Sources; Brochures and photo-documentation; Gender issues, discrimination, Human rights, and multilingualism Turkey; Ecologıcal Awareness and Protecting Environment; Newsletters; Breaking stereotypes Although all pupils will have equal opportunity to participate in project activities regardless of gender, social or financial situation; selection of participants for mobilities will be done according to the pupils´ works on the project, willingness to participate in activities, host foreign pupils, attitudes, language skills and diligence with a gender balance. Preparatory sessions before mobility to provide information about tasks, insurance, safety, partners’ culture, etc., and disseminating sessions after mobility will be conducted by contact teachers. Project objectives are to develop the participants’ general and specific competences in order to widen their perspectives from local to the European sphere, to be more aware of the problems of the nature through the use of beekeeping as a cultural heritage, understand the value of being part of the European continent with a rich history, which will enable them to understand their similarities and historical connections with each other and to help them transfer their cultural heritages to future generations, to collaborative partnerships, to learn more about ecological awareness, protecting environment, history of civilization, to break down misconceptions of people from other cultures. Our project will support the social and personal development of participants, work together in a multicultural environment, meet on common grounds in mutual understanding and organize activities to overcome language and culture challenges. This will improve participants' feelings of self-confidence and the participants will start saying "I can do it now !", which is one of our most expected aims. The project offers a well defined controllable way for partners to take social issues from the curriculum and apply them into the running of the school as the strategy of our project is based on “Learning by experimenting”. This process helps students recognize the importance of social issues and take them more seriously in their lives. The tasks consist on dealing with content knowledge and problem-solving, thinking skills, analysing or evaluation with the help of methods such as meetings, workshops, discussions, sharing of educational materials and experiences, nonformal activities, excursions, competitions, role-plays, surveys, seminers, presentations, creating newsletters, DVDs and eTwinning network activities. We will produce outputs such as booklets, cups, newsletters, DVDs, posters, T-shirts, flags, notebooks etc. and distribute free of charge. The programme and necessary logos will be emphasised on any kind of activities and materials. Monitoring and assessment process will concentrate on if the project has reached its objectives and if the outputs are competent and are performed well enough to help us mirror on what extent we have complied with the main objectives of the project, what’s going well and what we should do to change or improve things. As social networks will be effective multipliers, all partners will register to the eTwinning portal, will effectively use twinspace pages. And the project will be expanded through the use of eTwinning, websites, social media accounts. With all disseminations, we aim to inform the community so that we will not leave anybody behind either not motivated to participate or not well-informed about the problems of nature.
This short term exchanges of groups of pupils project, “Students against extinction” lasted two years. The partners were chosen from different types of secondary schools - vocational schools, general schools, public and private schools, from different geographical areas, diversity and colourfulness of their cultures, ways of life, ways of cooperation, school descriptions, experiences through eTwinning and some other partner search platforms as the biodiversity was needed for our project. The project of strategic partnership involved 6 schools Slovakia as the coordinator, Czech Republic, Latvia, Turkey, Greece, Spain as partners. We organised 7 LTT activities/mobilities. Every mobility was 6 days + 1 day for travel and each school was host once. There were at least 4 pupils aged 14-19 years old and 2 responsible teachers from each school. The project language was in English. Distribution of the topics, tasks and workshops according to the SWOT analysis during the preparation phase was: Slovakia - History of Beekeeping; Website; Bee Game Czech Republic - Food, Agriculture and Food Waste; Social media accounts; Living in Erasmus+ world Latvia - Consumerism and Waste; e-Twinning and video conferences; Effective communication, European Citizenship Greece - Urban Agriculture; Multilingual Dictionary; Natural Disasters and protecting environment Spain - Recycling and Renewable Sources; Brochures and photo-documentation; Gender issues, discrimination, Human rights, and multilingualism Turkey - Ecologıcal Awareness and Protecting Environment; Newsletters; Breaking stereotypes All pupils had equal opportunity to participate in project activities regardless of gender, social or financial situation; selection of participants for mobilities was done according to the pupils´ works on the project, willingness to participate in activities, host foreign pupils, attitudes, language skills and diligence with a gender balance. Preparatory sessions were conducted before mobility to provide information about tasks, insurance, safety, partners' culture, etc. Contact teachers conducted these sessions. Dissemination sessions were also conducted after mobility. By implementation of this project we achieved the following objectives and results: 1. The participants developed their key competences (above all communication, language, civic, social, and digital) 2. They extended their knowledge about beekeeping as a cultural heritage. They understood their similarities and historical connections with each other 3. They widened their perspectives from local to the Europan sphere. 4. They learned more about ecological awereness, protecting enviroment, history of civilization, to break down misconceptions of people from other cultures. Our project supported the social and personal development of participants. They worked together in a multicultural environment, found common ground in mutual understanding, and organized activities to overcome language and cultural challenges. This improved the participants' feelings of self-confidence, and they started saying "I can do it now!", which was one of our most expected aims. The project offered a well-defined, controllable way for partners to take social issues from the curriculum and apply them to the running of the school, as the strategy of our project was based on "Learning by experimenting." This process helped students recognize the importance of social issues and take them more seriously in their lives. The tasks consisted of dealing with content knowledge and problem-solving, thinking skills, analyzing or evaluation with the help of methods such as meetings, workshops, discussions, sharing of educational materials and experiences, non-formal activities, excursions, competitions, role-plays, surveys, seminars, presentations, creating newsletters, and eTwinning network activities. We produced outputs such as booklets, cups, newsletters, posters, T-shirts, flags, notebooks, etc. and distributed them free of charge. The programme and necessary logos were emphasized on any kind of activities and materials. The monitoring and assessment process concentrated on whether the project had reached its objectives and whether the outputs were competent and performed well enough to help us reflect on the extent to which we had complied with the main objectives of the project. We evaluated what was going well and what we should do to change or improve things. As social networks were effective multipliers, all partners registered to the eTwinning portal and effectively used Twinspace pages. The project was expanded through the use of eTwinning, websites, and social media accounts. The project objectives and outcomes were also published on all partners school websites, in the local newspapers. With all disseminations, we informed the community so that we did not leave anybody behind who was either not motivated to participate or not well-informed about the problems of nature.