The THEMIS project aims to promote ecological intelligence among young people, focusing on raising awareness among teachers and secondary school pupils. The main objective is to guide young people towards environmentally-friendly lifestyles, promote sustainable consumption patterns and raise their awareness of environmental issues. The specific objectives linked to this main objective are : - to disseminate the concept of ecological intelligence - to understand the impact of actions on the environment, - a change of attitude among pupils, - the acquisition of social values and a concern for the environment, - promoting active participation in environmental protection. The project seeks to develop cognitive and affective environmental skills through quality education using innovative methods to train a new generation committed to protecting nature and adopting sustainable behaviour to preserve our planet.
The THEMIS project was designed to explore innovative approaches to increase the involvement of teachers and pupils in environmental education. Our project is based on the concept of Ecological Intelligence (EI), defined as the ability to understand the environmental consequences of our everyday choices and to act in ways that reduce our ecological impact. Daniel Goleman (2009) defines environmental education as a lifelong learning process through which individuals and communities become aware of their environment and acquire the knowledge, values, skills, experience and determination to act individually and collectively to solve current and future environmental problems. THEMIS aimed to meet the following needs: - Develop ecological intelligence (EI) and young people's understanding of the ecological consequences of their everyday choices, as a necessity in the light of climate change. - To improve teacher training in order to equip them with new methods of environmental education to make pupils aware of their responsibility towards the environment.