The main achievement of the project will be students equipped with necessary knowledge and tools to find real solutions to climate change, and to make contributions towards the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals, on a local, regional, national and European level. The specific aims we set for this project are the following: OBJECTIVES FOR STUDENTS: 1. To develop awareness of global issues. 2. To explore the environment in non-formal areas. 3. To respect and protect nature and the living environments. 4. To stimulate the children’ motivation for environmental protection. 5. To learn how to protect the living environments. 6. To develop the children’s inquiry skills. 7. To reduce the negative impacts of the periods of lockdown. FOR TEACHERS: 1. To develop environmental education lessons outside the classroom. 2. To increase the number of outdoors lessons taught. 3. To develop interdisciplinary collaborations. 4. To make an exchange of good practices. 5. To increase the amount of time teachers get actively involved in outdoor environmental learning. 6. To design and use materials for environmental education. 7. To promote the internationalization.
Living sustainably means living within the capacity of the natural environment to support life and ensuring our current lifestyle has minimal impact on generations to come. As the need for greater sustainability becomes more apparent globally, so does the importance of embedding sustainability in children’s programs. The NEEDS can be summarised as follows: For STUDENTS - to adopt a sustainable way of life and to fight against climate change, - to understand what sustainability is, - to spend more time outdoors and to explore the nature. For TEACHERS - to share experiences about Early Childhood Environmental based Education, and to increase their teaching skills in this field, - to get to know different approaches to outdoors environmental education, - to improve their language skills. For INSTITUTIONS - to set up school policies for sustainability, - to gain experience in implementing Erasmus+ projects, - to become eTwinning schools, - to support the internationalization of their institution, and to take it out of the local isolation, - to build long term collaborations with other European schools.