The main objectives that we wanted to achieve were: - raising awareness on light pollution being a green issue that is relatively unknown to the public - improve students' scientific literacy by bringing science to the classroom - we wanted our students to act as researchers to study the dark side of light - being socially inclusive aur students had to develop ways for their community to reduce the harmful effect of light pollution - increasing interdisciplinary approach in our schools when developing the topic - cooperation of Physics, ICT, Biology, English departments - carrying out international hands-on activities to study LP in depth thus improving the European dimenson in our schools.
Artificial light has given the humankind endless opportunitiies but it has unintended yet harmful impacts on the world and we need to be aware of it to make reasonable decisions and use it appropriately. Unfortunately, the topic is still unknown and educational institutions rarely focus on it in their international partnerships nor is it thoroughly implemented in school curricula. Through our partnership our team of four secondary schools decided to address this growing problem and raise the participants' awareness on its sources, types and effects on fauna, flora, human health and energy consumption, hence ecology. In the course of our cooperation we aimed at involving our students in hands-out activities, carrying out experiments and observations that enable them to recognise light pollution and look for effective ways to minimise its negative affects on human organisms, ecosystems and sky observations. Moreover, we wanted our students to be involved in looking for nature-based solutions when dsigning and simulating urban and indoor lighting thus becoming responsible for their own and others' health and the environment.