We wanted to achieve by means of the project the following objectives: increasing teachers and students’ awareness of forest fires and ways of preventing them; disseminating information concerning forest fires and the measures that can be taken in everyday life to prevent them; contributing in fulfilling the EU’s overarching objective to halt the loss of biodiversity by raising people’s awareness of the gravity of the forest fires problem ; creating an information and dissemination campaign for preventing deforestation and climate changes; - learning to collaborate both virtually and face-to-face with students and teachers from different EU countries ; Improving the participants’ communication skills in foreign languages for both students and teachers and increasing intercultural awareness ; - integrating ICTs, open virtual learning and digital contents during the process teaching in order to develop digital skills for all the participants; - promoting the students' involvement, commitment, democratic participation and active citizenship; ensuring inclusion and equal opportunities to everyone breaking down any cultural, economic, geographical or educational obstacles.
The project aimed at making the students aware of environmental issues such as forest fires, climate changes, global warming, deforestation and focusing the richness of ecosystems biodiversity in Europe and beyond. We applied for dealing with these issues at a transnational level since all the countries involved in this partnership have lived every year the dramatic experience of forest fires in order to compare ideas, studies, proposals and solutions and develop in our students an environmental responsibility for building a more sustainable future for young generations. At the same time we (teachers) wanted to explore and experiment more creative and innovative methodologies (Debate, Project Based Learning, Inquiry Based Learning, Flipped Classroom, Game Based Learning etc.), breaking the boundaries among the disciplines: Biology, Science, Chemistry, Literature, Art, Technology, Computer Science, Civic Education and so on. Associated partners like Universities and local associations and Institutions could help us in this educational path. All the participant countries involved in the project had got the same needs, facing every year .the problem of forest fires in their territory.