Through this project, we wanted to achieve several educational and developmental goals focused on raising environmental awareness and building key competences for sustainable living. Our cognitive objectives were to: -Enhance awareness about climate change, global warming, and their effects on the planet. -Increase knowledge of greener and more sustainable lifestyles, including eco-friendly transportation, energy use, and smarter consumer choices in areas such as food, clothing, and cleaning products. -Develop consciousness in waste management, energy saving, plastic reduction, recycling, and the responsible use of natural resources. -Improve interpersonal, intercultural, and social skills, as well as students’ communication abilities in English. -Strengthen ICT skills, especially in creating promotional materials and managing an online learning platform. -Enhance green and entrepreneurial skills, preparing students for future “green jobs.” -Support teachers in integrating non-formal and informal educational methods into formal teaching contexts. -Improve students’ attitudes towards environmental and social issues affecting both local and European communities.
We applied for this project because we wanted to raise students’ awareness about the negative impact of human activity and the fast pace of development on the environment. Major issues such as pollution, depletion of natural resources, deforestation, and climate change are increasingly threatening our planet, making environmental education a priority. The main needs we have addressed are the lack of awareness regarding climate change, the world’s unpreparedness for global crises (as shown by the Covid-19 pandemic), the loss of biodiversity, and the need to develop green skills among the future workforce. The project aimed to help students adopt a responsible attitude towards nature, prepare them for an environmentally friendly lifestyle, and empower them to become future “green entrepreneurs” capable of finding ecological solutions to global problems. Our main goal has been to create educational tools that promote sustainability, eco-friendly entrepreneurship, and the integration of climate change topics into school curricula, including through a free e-learning platform accessible to everyone.