The Project FALP aimed at raising awareness about light pollution which is adversely affecting environment, safety, energy consumption, climate change and health and researching, comparing and sharing the approaches and applications about interactive, creative and innovative methods for teaching scientific and environmental subjects in the partner schools, implementing these methods into our school curriculum and disseminating the results of the applications and workshops. The planned activities aimed to raise awareness and to try to find the answers and solutions for the themes: - What is light pollution? - How to measure the light pollution - Measuring and reducing the energy waste because of the wrong lightning - Research and suggestions for the smarter, cleaner and greener lightning systems for the energy sustainability and climate change as mentioned in the priorities of EUROPE 2020 strategy -Supporting the global awareness on light pollution, raising awareness about international dark sky parks, encouraging the brilliant students to study the light, optic, photonic or engineering as a profession and to be innovative and creative in this field.
The fact that the administrations have not yet put light pollution into a pollution class and not conducted a study on this issue yet shows that we cannot perceive the seriousness of the issue of light pollution. Light pollution is an international problem and is one of the least known but still has a major impact on our environment. People, students, teachers, local administration all are not aware of light pollution and its negative effects on nature. So we needed to increase awareness about this issue with our partner countries by combating light pollution locally, nationally and internationally. In addition to raising awareness of the issue of light pollution for the observation of the sky and for the overall natural environment, we would also like to draw attention to the waste of energy and the use of intelligent systems of lighting. The needs of partners were identified through the SWOT analysis described in their documents, the real analysis of activity reports, and teacher council meetings, which showed the need for intercultural education of students as a strategy to increase their awareness of light pollution and its negative effects on nature by working on this issue internationally to share good practices on it.