CONTEXT Waste material is an issue that influences us all. We all create these materials: normally, each one of the five hundred million individuals living within the EU tosses about half a ton of rubbish from household each year. It is on top of tremendous sums of waste material produced from actions like fabricating and construction, whereas water supply and energy generation create another 95 million tons. Jointly, the European Union creates approximately 3 billion tons of waste material every year. This association is going to incorporate 3 basic ways: 1. Making a neutral examination of the current principles and circumstance with respect to waste material administration in each nation, hence being able to determine common and separating angles, which is going to empower us to arrange the project actions and adjust the techniques in conclusion. 2. Actions with pupils to encourage decreasing of rubbish, re-use of existing items and evasion of overconsumption, and reusing materials to change them into beneficial or stylish items. 3. Throughout the project, we are going to work on a direction to waste material administration in schools and family units which our schools could perform and exchange at the conclusion of the project. OBJECTIVES The project points out a common issue which has been centred on at the level of EU, yet that has not discovered all the way-outs. Whereas we are not going to illuminate all the issues related to waste material administration or dispose of its impacts on the surroundings, we plan to create a mindful exertion to teach young individuals into becoming more ecologically liable citizens. The particular goals of the project are: 1. to foster accountable and dynamic citizenship among pupils 2. to create the pupils’ ecological awareness 3. to provide pupils and instructors the opportunity to examine current applications in waste material administration and create beneficial adjustments ACTIVITIES So as to accomplish these objectives, we organize 5 multinational activities, intertwined with native actions on particular subjects: C1 – Waste material administration principles – statistics, regulatory acts, laws (joint-personnel training) C2 – REDUCE – Impacts on the nature of negative disposal techniques C3 – REUSE – Campaign to foster reusage of materials C4 – RECYCLE and RECREATE – Find out the mine in the waste material C5 – Improvement and execution of school-based waste material administration methods PARTICIPANTS We are going to have a total number of 120 pupils within the association that will join all the 3 pupil interchanges (C2-C5). For the 1 joint-personnel preparing activities, we are going to choose from every school 2 individuals with the related involvement for the subjects, other than the facilitator that is going to go to both gatherings. By and large, we are going to have 40 mobility of instructor in C1 and C5. OUTCOMES Our project is meant to create an arrangement of impalpable outcomes, which comprise of recipients’ learned information, aptitudes, approaches and ecological mindfulness; we are going to foster a culture of care for the nature which all partners are going to grasp and conform to. A few of the concrete outcomes incorporate: first and last assessment forms finished by target teams, investigate and introductions concerning native and nationwide principles with respect to waste material administration, an e-journal of natural projects from the schools, pupils’ eco-diaries, studies of native society individuals, craftsmanship establishments, e-brochure having DIY crafts and arts from reused materials, Stop Waste Campaigns, Waste Management (WM) Programme for schools EFFECT For all the partner organisations, this Erasmus+ project is planning to bring gains at all levels. For project members with past Erasmus+ involvement, this project is going to proceed to cultivate the European and international property of the schools. By utilizing eTwinning extensively in the project, we are going to determine modern chances for cooperation on the corresponding subjects and to amplify our system of European schools, as well. Unpractised partners are going to enhance their project administration potential, in this way developing their interchange administration and organizational aptitudes. Our schools are going to be more eco-friendly, centring on techniques to develop waste material administration. Providing that it is carried out appropriately, at that point the project is going to create adjustments in pupils’ states of mind to the surrounding in the medium and long period. This is going to be conveyed into their individual lives and we hope to create changes within the society as well. So, schools we are going to affirm their key part in the instruction of future generations of grown-ups.
The project was aimed at supporting responsible and dynamic citizenship among students and creating ecological awareness. To achieve the goals, we implemented various activities, including educational workshops and excursions focused on waste management, green energy and waste prevention. Pupils and teachers had the opportunity to explore current trends in this area. Thanks to these activities, we observed an increased interest of students in ecological issues and waste management and an initiative on their part to organize environmental events. Their awareness of environmental issues has increased significantly. In addition, we created an environment where students could engage in practical projects related to recycling and sustainability. GOALS The goals of the project were fulfilled thanks to the active involvement of the participants in the project and their interest in the events in the society in which they live. The main goal was to increase students' ecological awareness, to support responsible and dynamic coexistence among them. We managed to fulfill another goal - to develop students' own sense of responsibility for the environment of which they are a part. Thanks to the participation in the project, the students get involved in environmental initiatives, thus showing respect and responsibility for the environment in which they live. They show interest in challenges that are connected with social responsibility for the environment. The project greatly increased cultural awareness and contributed to the improvement of students' communication and language competences, as well as to the improvement of critical thinking and time management. Thanks to the excursions, lectures and activities in the project, the students were enriched and gained a lot of valuable information in an experiential way. We also consider the fact that several households started sorting waste based on education about waste management as a success. We consider this step to be sustainable with a positive impact on society. ACTIVITIES In the project, we organized 5 transnational activities that helped us fulfill the project's goals. Each exchange was structured around three main aspects: a brief presentation of environmental challenges in each local community, presentation of examples of good practice and the initiation and implementation of a selected eco-activity aimed at reducing waste, preventing waste with the visiting students. In addition to these aspects, at each educational activity we developed social, cultural and environmental responsibility in students through their relationship with their peers from other countries and at the same time through their relationship with the environment in which the given activity took place. A total of more than 120 pupils and 18 educators were involved in the project. THE RESULTS We consider the following to be tangible outputs from the project: - a questionnaire for students upon entering the project, in which we mapped the students' relationship to responsibility for the environment, - ecodiaries, which students kept for one month, in order to be able to identify the amount of waste created/energy consumed, - an electronic brochure, which is a catalog of eco products created by partner schools, - eJournal, - Campaigns to reduce waste generation, - Waste management program for schools - a document that is methodological material for schools Intangible results in the project are the skills acquired by the participants of the educational activities, the improvement of social responsibility in the field of ecology and environmental protection, the improvement of the students' relationship with nature as such and, last but not least, the awakening of students' interest in being an active citizen in the field of environmental challenges. For all partner organizations, this project brought benefits on several levels. The project offered every participating partner school the possibility of implementing environmental topics into the school's educational program. Thanks to the project, the students improved their language skills, the project and the activities implemented in it aroused the students' interest in environmental topics in society, which we consider to be the greatest benefit. Accompanying teachers, inspired by other schools involved in the project, brought best practices to their environment, be it for the organization of the classroom and the school, the use of technology or topics for extracurricular initiatives and projects in the field of ecology. The teachers spread the knowledge gained in the project among their colleagues in their work groups and thereby contributed to the dissemination of the project and the application of some of the acquired procedures in their school.