"This project helped raise awareness about climate issues, natureprotection and how to teach such significant and complicate themes topreschool children. Also, to exchange the good practice ideas aboutenvironmental education and sustainable development at preschools.The project title is ""Inside and out of the Beehive. What goes insidethe Beehive and outside is one of the most amazing stories in nature"".Beehive is also a comprehensive symbol for the preschool. The bees arepictured as children who are navigating in and outside of the building(beehive).During this project, teachers got more ideas about involving childrenand their parents in different activities. The main project goal was to raise the staff's professionaladvancement—improvement of the knowledge about sustainable developmentand environmental education. These priorities were linked to the preschool's curriculum and usedin the everyday learning process.We gave children the opportunity to share their insights. All partnerstogether had the same theme, e.g. growing plants, preparing veganfood.Turing the project, there were the following actions for the children:the honey-making process were introduced; children visited localfarmers and visited the Natural History Museum, where researchersexplore nature, including bees.- plant life circle, from seed to plant, fingers in the soil. Composting- recycling old material, making new toys and presents. Some partnersvisited a waste management station and exhibitions about recyclingmaterial.- water theme. Different type of experiments with water. Each partnerapproached it from a different angle.- climate issues. Akranes kindergarten made photos every week andafter compiled presentation how the weather has changed.- kindergartens participated all together in warm jumper day; loweringthe heat in the rooms.- teachers used digital learning tools; all partners merged film clipsinto one long movie.https://drive.google.com/file/d/19wiI4pg9aymfNHidX3muOhyK40rW4grC/view?fbclid=IwAR3lsexsHQY2tMMWkymoXZ01iVk8v6QlmjyvW2_1qlAqjE5poa3USQeRq6Q All participants disseminated project results in their preschools andneighbourhood kindergartens. https://twinspace.etwinning.net/79046/pages/page/515145"

"Things we do to live comfortably can affect the world around us, and the quantity of garbage we produce every day is something we should take more care of. Little actions and care from each individual can radically change humanity's impact on our planet. In order to reduce our continuous production of waste and to apply a real sustainable development, It is necessary that we make changes in our consumption habits, daily behavior, lifestyle and ways of doing things. And the sooner we learn how to make these changes, the better will be for our planet. That's why we want to start from very early childhood: kindergarten education.The seven partner kindergartens are from Iceland, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Poland, Norway and Turkey, all of them are already very active on environmental education and recycling activities, with a total of about 400 children and 150 school staff members involved in this project. We are the perfect team to identify, develop and test the 3Rs best practices (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) with children aged 2-7 years. In the 7 partner countries educators will engage children in opportunities to learn about environment, 3Rs and sustainability, involving families and local communities.Four leitmotivs will run throughout the whole project:-RUBBISH FAMILY: a family of waste bins composed by Father, Mother and Babies, that will contain all the waste of the school, so that children and staff can be aware of the quantity (and quality) of waste produced.-COMPOSTER, the King of Rubbish, where children can see first hand, that waste can turn in a valuable resource!-SCHOOL FLEA MARKET, open to children's families and to local community to ease the exchange of cloths, toys or any item that can still serve someone else.-ROSE OF JERICHO (also called Resurrection Plant), a desert plant that seems totally dry and dead, until it gets a little water to open and turn back to life, green and strong, to amaze children with the miracle of water.We have adapted the 3Rs to our little children, and they became 4 as follows :1. RECOGNIZE – children will learn about the different materials we use in our everyday life: plastic, glass, paper, organic, etc. through games, sport competitions, simple agricultural tasks and outdoor activities. Children will learn how to recognize natural and sustainable materials from those that are not.""We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors; we borrow it from our Children"" (anonymous) 2. REDUCE – we will all get acquainted to replace non-sustainable materials and products, with more sustainable ones, schools will help families organizing purchasing groups to get sustainable productions at a lower price. Experts will involve parents in easy lessons to learn how to produce simple every-day low-impact products at home.""Do not pretend that things will change if we always do the same"" (Albert Einstein)3. RECYCLE (and Reuse) – children will get used to separate garbage in the correct bins and reuse everything possible, making handcrafts, shopping bags and decorations for the school, using items in the bins.""The world has enough for everyone's needs, but not everyone's greed"" (Gandhi)4. ROOT – this part will be fully focused on teachers, who will share, discuss and consolidate the aims, activities, methods and results of the project, with other teachers (of local kindergarten and primary schools) and with University Professors. Every school will also apply for the ECO-SCHOOL certification of the worldwide Foundation for Environmental Education, in order to root the good habits learnt during the project and make it a permanent curriculum program.""Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world"" (Nelson Mandela)Our main aims and desired impacts in short:-connecting our children with the wonders of nature and create environmental awareness to respect and protect our planet,-improving competence and skills in environmental education of kindergarten teachers,-consolidating and disseminating the 3Rs best practices to kindergartens children and teachers, but also to their families and local communities,-exchanging good practices among different countries,-raising awareness in children and families about the impact that products we use have on environment, and become aware of how little changes in our lifestyle can help our planet to stay healthy,-rooting all good habits learnt during the project to make them a permanent lifestyle and curriculum program in our kindergartens,-improving, consolidating and disseminating new teaching methods for 3Rs best practices in kindergartens, -increasing the quality level in our kindergartens,-creating a stronger feeling of belonging to the European Community and therefore continue improving our performances as teachers and educators.""Those who are crazy enough to think they can change the world usually do"" (Steve Jobs)"