The goal of our activities was to make the project participants aware of the need for an ecological lifestyle, care for the environment, and care for the planet. Another goal of the project was to form a group of young people who in the future would take on the task of educating others in the areas they learned about during their mobility in Italy and Poland. The project participants were supposed to develop habits associated with ecological behavior, the goal of which is not only to reduce consumerism , which would lead to lowering the ecological footprint, but also to increase health awareness (microplastics in food, recycling, clean air).
We applied for the EcoAcademia project because of the relevance of the topic of ecology in the modern world and the desire to reduce the greenhouse effect, improve the livelihood of future generations and make our high school students aware of the importance of the topic of ecology in their lives. The project wanted to involve young people who associate their future with studying environmental fields and taking up professional work in companies aimed at environmental protection. Teachers applying for the project wanted to make students aware of the importance of the topic of ecology, and to take specific actions aimed at promoting ecological attitudes among high school students and people closest to them.