SEAL project was designed to serve for the visions of European Environment Policy for 2020, ‘Towards a greener and more sustainable Europe’ and set its project objectives in line: 1. protect, conserve and enhance the nature, 2. turn into eco-schools which are resource-efficient, green and adopts low-carbon school practices, 3. safeguard students and teachers from environment-related risks to health and wellbeing. SEAL also supported ‘Environmental and Climate Goals’ of Erasmus+ program, which declared projects aiming to “support awareness-raising about environmental and climate-change challenges”, would be prioritized. SEAL project aimed to prepare students to “become true factors of change (e.g. save resources, reduce energy use and waste, compensate carbon footprint emissions) and cover education and sport activities to enable changes for consumption habits and lifestyles” SEAL also established circumstances in which project participants would develop their cultural, social, innovative, multilingual and ICT skills and improve knowledge of respect and responsibility for others.
SEAL partners believed it was crucial that the young people understood their actions and larger mechanisms that pollute the earth and everybody had to take responsibility in order to reduce pollution and even prevent it. In SEAL, schools were actively encouraged to focus on environmental problems, conduct campaigns for the preservation and restoration of the nature and develop long-lasting solutions. SEAL provided participants with environmental knowledge and equipped them with sustainable green skills necessary for their daily lives. Students were exposed to real life cases to better acquire environmental learning. Teachers were trained to teach environmental topics using non-formal and experiential methodology. The overall aim of SEAL project was to bring a social learning approach into education in which students and teachers would learn, understand and interpret the world around them. This was realized through experiential learning workshops, educational and cultural visits, seminars, sport events and youth campaigns for environment to raise awareness of sustainable ways of recycling, finding new energy sources and gain an understanding about a more sustainable environment.