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Green Youth in Action

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2021-1-IT02-KA220-SCH-000024262
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Partnerships for cooperation and exchanges of practices | Cooperation partnerships in school education Funder Contribution: 216,940 EUR

Green Youth in Action

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"<< Background >>Each invididual does not choose in which country to be born, but we were all born with the same opportunities, and how we respect nature depends only on us. From our desire for a better and clean life, from the effort to leave traces in our life path, which show the development of our personal qualities, but also the growth of our spirit through voluntary act .Through this project we want to teach our students that we will achieve this only if we have self-knowledge and a tendency to experiment - you need to know who you are, what you are good at, what your values ​​are, what are your powers on nature, on our common earth. 2019 and 2020 were among the warmest years ever recorded and carbon dioxide levels and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere continue increasing despite Coronavirus demanded a stop in many polluting activities.Climate changes due to pollution are affecting every country on every continent. They are disrupting national economies and affecting people's lives. Although the big powers of the world meet to take decisions in order to lower greenhouse gas emissions, their resolutions are far from being realized now and are only temporary. Climate changes are not on pause.The UN proposed six climate-positive actions for governments to take:Green transition: Investments must accelerate the decarbonization of our economy.Green jobs and sustainable and inclusive growth.Green economy through a transition that is fair to all and leaves no one behind.Invest in sustainable solutions: fossil fuel subsidies must end and polluters must pay for their pollution.Confront all climate risks.Cooperation: no country can succeed alone.The target group will consist of teachers and students from our schools and other schools, local communities and wider communities who will participate in the dissemination activities.Through this project, we will make our students take the first step not only towards their own clean future, but also towards the well-being of the community, and to do so with faith and conviction. ""Take the first step in faith. It's not important to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step"", Martin Luther King.<< Objectives >>All partner countries are touched by a common emergency: climate changes.The state of the environment depends on each one of us and directly affects our life and health. Most people deal superficially with this aspect of their lives, which increases the process of pollution and destruction of the environment, which means destroying the health of each one of us. Our purpose is to educate students to respect the environment, to develop a desire to live in a clean, healthy environment. Finding solutions to solve environmental problems and improve environmental quality are increasingly difficult goals to achieve.The latest EU environmental legislation is the 7th Environment Action Programme (EAP). But are we sure all of us are following rules?In this project, we will attract around 300 students between the ages of 14 and 19 and 25 teachers from European secondary schools to give them the opportunity to get to know each other, play, work and collaborate as an international team. Our priority is to ensure that no young person is abandoned and that everyone enjoys equal opportunities, the right to a clean world and air, equally, without discrimination or barriers and that everybody follows rules: the rules given by nature and the rules given by common sense.Our main objectives are directly related to the following pre-defined Erasmus + axes: -Inclusion and diversity in all fields of education-Addressing digital transformation through the development of digital readinesssustainability and capacity-Development of key competencesThe objectives of the project:•To use digital resources and create learning products•To learn good practices•To talk and communicate with people, trying to show them good practices with the enthusiasm and joy of youth•To create opportunities for young people to learn what trust, communication, successful leadership, problem solving and self-confidence are, things that cannot be learnt from textbooks•To accumulate life experience through contact with partners, with European material and cultural phenomena.•To disseminate project results at local, regional, national, international level to inspire the others. Participation in this project is a great opportunity for our students and teachers, because they will share experiences, learnt from each other and together, will exchange ideas and good practises, will overcome language barriers, will develop skills and competences, they will meet people from other cultures and religions and they will be better adapted.Students will develop critical and analytical thinking skills, will develop interpersonal and communication skills, teamwork, negotiation and organizational skills.They will learn values such as tolerance, respect and acceptance of people from different countries and of people who have a different culture. If they develop their social and personal skills, increase their self-confidence and self-esteem, our goals will be achieved.Teachers will have the opportunity to exchange good practices, ideas and teaching methods.The institutions will strengthen their cooperation with other European schools and gain more experience in carrying out Erasmus + projects.Schools will benefit from better relationships between teachers and students, between teachers and parents and are likely to lead to better coherence within the organization and will continue to cooperate with partner institutions through other projects that will be inspired from our project.Based on the questionnaires at the beginning and end of the project, surveys and evaluation of project activities before and after each LTT, we will assess whether the project objectives have been met. We will compare the results of the two questionnaires to obtain feedback on the achievement of our project objectives, to evaluate the involvement, interest and satisfaction of students.The questionnaires will be analyzed and discussed by the participating students and teachers.<< Implementation >>All the activities are shown in the Timetable. In particular, Turkey will show how to make a wholly recycled material dress, which will be recorded in the third part of our common video; Italy, will realize a documentary video showing consequences of unlawful common actions and show how to practically work together to help the planet and will make the final part of the video with subtitles in 6 languages.Germany will realize a booklet with instructions on methods to produce renewable energy in 6 languages. Bulgaria will realize a fashion show gathering all the dresses made by all the partners' students.Spain will realize a recipe book in 6 languages.Romania will realize a virtual album with photos of nature with captions in 6 languages.During all the LTT, students will be shown how to fill in a Europass cv. They will follow workshops on renewable energy and visit a wind mill in Germany. Tney will visit a waste to energy plant in Italy. They wil learn how to do organic meals in Romania and Spain. How to collect materials and separate them and how to create fashion dresses in Turkey and Bulgaria.In order to achieve the goals of the project, we established 1 transnational meeting for associates-coordinators and directors and 6 international meetings / LTT / 6 subprojects, which will be implemented by all the participants, communication sessions, evaluations, disseminations. The activities will take place both at home and in an international environment. Thus, the participants will acquire skills, knowledge and attitudes, which they will use both in their countries and abroad, because they will have a better understanding and awareness of both contexts, on the topics covered by our project.Students will develop critical and analytical thinking skills, will develop interpersonal and communication skills, teamwork, negotiation and organizational skills.They will learn values such as tolerance, respect and acceptance of people from different countries and of people who have a different culture.Teachers will have the opportunity to exchange good practices, ideas and teaching methods.The institutions will strengthen their cooperation with other European schools and gain more experience in carrying out Erasmus + projects.We aspect the project to produce both tangible and intangible results.Tangible results: Our main outcomes will be e-book. An e-book with all teaching materials is the final product that can be used as teaching or reference material by partner schools in the future. It will be created throughout the project, in different phases and will be a coherent unit of our work. The e-book will include: 1. Project logo -link2. Project Website -link3. The e-Twinning project 4. collection of teaching materials used during the project, students from each country 5. collection of videos containing the results of the activities. each school will upload them to their school's YouTube channel 6. collection of lesson plans prepared according to the innovative lesson plan model that develops different forms of learning outcomes 7. collection of questionnaires and evaluation / evaluation forms 8. Promotional posters, brochures, videos made throughout the project 9. Analysis of the surveys that will be completed by the participating students after each mobility 10. Webinars and online meetings 11. Online articles after each LTTA 12. Students videos in You TubeIntangible results:- communication and language results: a passage for English from a B1 to B2 level QCER in relation to the initial level- development of skills in the field of ecological volunteering- several languages on eTwinning- to facilitate the intercultural dialogue between the participating schools<< Results >>The impact envisaged is showing that a smart and conscious use of resources at local level can make the change at international level.Students and teachers will communicate using eTwinning platform before the planned visit and schedule all important details for the meeting. They will preparePowerPoint presentations, tutorials and material needed for making a calendar. Such way of communication will also improve digital competence of students andteachers.Teachers will also hold video conferences via eTwinning, Skype or Google + in order to organise all activities before the meeting takes place.In the school we will try to fulfil all planned activities from our Module using different teaching methods and learning skills. Through our planned activities studentswill broaden their horizons, develop intercultural understanding, discover cultural heritage of the country they visited and partner schools. Since all students willhave to speak in English they will also strengthen their communication skills and develop confidence in oral and written form performances. They will have tocollaborate with other students on different tasks (workshop, practical tasks, tutorials, performances) and in such way develop interpersonal skills andcompetences.Teachers will gain insight in different teaching and learning techniques as well as strategies that might be implemented in schools and awoke student’s interest innon-formal education.The students will get to know other countries, their culture, improve their language skills and maybe develop friendships for a whole life. Some of the studentsmight get involved in researching more about different cultures. Students will have more respect not just for their own culture but also for the others. The project will help students broaden their horizons not just on cultural level but also awake social awareness to people in needed. Students will exchange experiences and effective teaching techniques. They will become responsible European citizens and get actively involved in the society. Through participating in this project students will:- improve language skills and communication competence- improve their digital competence and ESL proficiency- improve their capacity of working in team- improve knowledge of social needs and cultural differences among EU countries- improve their social awareness for people in need- promote inclusion and dissemination"

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