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Environment as a culture of education

2020-2-UK01-KA105-0795372020Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: UK|UA|EL|SK|MD|GE|AM|BY · Grant: €18,183
Social/environmental responsibility of educational institutionsEnvironment and climate changeHealth and wellbeing

Objectives

The program aims to identify and create effective means to make the environment and nature protection one of the most important components of education. Protecting the environment as a culture of education must be effective in both formal and non-formal education, aimed at increasing the love and responsibility for the environment, especially among young people. The program also aims to offer solutions to a number of environmental issues, including Loss of Biodiversity, Fight against ozone depletion, greenhouse effect and global warming proposed by young people, Air pollution, Water pollution, Population Growth. Environmental education can help the nation to cultivate knowledge, capacity, attitudes, values, etc. It is necessary for preserving and improving the environment and putting such knowledge into practice, with the purpose of contributing to the sustainable development of the state and the local communities. Environmental education refers to organized efforts to teach how natural environments function and particularly, how a human can manage behavior and ecosystems to live sustainably. It is a multi-disciplinary field integrating disciplines such as biology, chemistry, physics, ecology, earth science, atmospheric science, mathematics and geography. There are also sources that environmental education is taught outside the traditional classroom. Aquariums, zoos, parks and nature centres have the ways of teaching the public about the environment. The objective of environmental education is broad in sense of nature. The systematic knowledge about the care should be taken in the explanation and utilization of natural resources for the development and progress of mankind is given through environmental education. The goals of environmental education are: to provide every person with opportunities to acquire the knowledge, values, attitudes, commitment and skills needed to protect and improve the environment; to create new patterns of behavior of individuals, groups, and society as a whole towards the environment.

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