Using our commitment to change our mindsets towards our individual responsibilities for the future, we raised awareness of green policies. The network of schools and educators helped to change people's attitudes as we need to connect in order to solve the problem on a large scale by learning from each other. We aimed to make our students: -Understand the biggest challenges the world has to face regarding its future - Develop critical thinking towards the environment and sustainability -Identify patterns and behaviours that put sustainability at risk; - Propose and create solutions for problems they observe around them; - Be the spokespeople for this change of mindset; - Take these changes to their homes and communities; - Embrace the commitment to create a better environment. In Portugal mobility the concept of a "circular economy" brought an emerging perspective on sustainability creating a new mindset. Slovakia introduced the topic of “Garbage collecting and recycling” and in the workshop, students made upcycled goods from collected garbage.Turkey provided a comprehensive overview of "Zero waste " with a focus on issues related to sustainability and Norway addressed how we can meet future demands for clean energy.
Our project "Make It Greener!" connected five schools spread across Europe using five mobilities to achieve one goal: bring about the transformation of our schools to make them "greener", i.e. more environmentally-friendly and more sustainable. We strongly believed that we could only bring about a change in environmental awareness together, as a network following the motto "Think globally, act locally". The Erasmus+ project thereby only was a starting point to get expertise, to trigger change. By carrying out this project students became sustainability experts and green ambassadors, and by establishing green teams in our schools we ensured the idea of this project to be taken to a wider audience. Within our mobilities we learnt about different aspects of sustainability using a different focus of methodology: Portugal provided an overview of the topic, zooming in on economic aspects and creating bonds within the community.Norway and Slovakia, labelled as Eco-schools, showed how to become a green school by providing best-practice examples and indicating a pathway towards that goal. Turkey already an expert on zero waste, used a creative and critical thinking approach to show where and how we can reduce waste and water usage.