The main objectives of the Heal the Earth project were to raise awareness about climate change and help students, teachers, and local people gain green skills to live more sustainably. The project aimed to teach participants how human actions affect the environment and how they can take responsibility to protect it. Through four main modules—Earth, Water, Fire, and Air we worked on specific goals: Earth module: understand pollution types, promote recycling, and identify eco-friendly products. Water module: increase awareness about global water shortages, saving water, and preventing pollution Fire module: learn about renewable energy sources, reduce energy waste, and promote energy-saving habits. Air module: understand carbon emissions, calculate carbon footprints, and take action to reduce them. We wanted to create a generation that is aware of environmental problems, takes action to fight climate change, and uses green skills in everyday life. We also aimed to build cooperation between partner schools, improve students’ communication, digital, and cultural skills, and strengthen the role of schools as leaders in sustainability and environmental education. We also wanted multiply the effect of the project to other teachers.
We applied this project to increase awareness about climate change and help students, and teachers learn ways to protect the environment. We made surveys at schools before we begin that in all partner schools showed that students did not know enough about environmental problems or what they could do to help. For example, only about half of them were aware of the danger of the climate change. As daily habits—like wasting energy and water, not recycling, and not knowing about carbon emissions—cause harm to nature, we wanted to turn knowledge into real action through practical activities at schools, online and through mobilities. The project was created to make 11–14-year-old students gain awreness on environemntal topics in four themes: earth, water, fire, and air. Through this project, we wanted to help students care more about nature, encourage them to use eco-friendly habits in their life, and create a school culture that respects the environment. Our main goal was to raise a new generation that understands the problems of climate change and takes action to make the world a cleaner and better place.