We wanted to raise students awareness of environmental and climate change challenges, change students behavior towards the consumption habits and lifestyle, to aware them about the environment they live in and to learn how to prevent the environmental problems and what they are, to gain high-level thinking skills, find solutions to environmental problems, improve foreign languages, gain international learning experience, become Europeans, strengthen cultural exchange. What is more, we wanted to work out some teaching /learning material which would be useful in the future when teaching ecology, biology, physics or IT and could be shared on local, national and international level via European Project Results Platform.
The main idea of the project was to raise awareness of the main environmental issues and call for action to protect nature so people could have healthy, happy and sustainable lives. Although most of the participants had general knowledge of the environmental dangers and claimed to be eco-friendly, we felt the lack of actions held at homes and in hometowns and we wanted to change the passive attitude into the active approach and to learn from each other their steps, what they have done and we can make students be environmentally active. To be more active means that we need to be more aware. At schools we saw the need to broaden the environmental horizons in its interdisciplinary dimensions, at homes to change the family habits concerning eco-friendly behavior, at local society to increase ecological awareness of citizens and their eco activity and at national and international level to show the results and share them and show how we can learn and teach environmental issues.