Erasmus – Ação – Chave 2

The project joins six schools from six countries: Czech Republic, France, Portugal, Iceland, Romania, Greece. They are joined by an interest in environmental issues. They are experienced in international cooperation, in Erasmus+. All schools are of a similar character – smaller schools active in international cooperation and project work. The partner schools are extended to extreme positions of the territory of the European Union. From the north of Iceland to the ocean surrounding the Azores. From the inland position of the Czech Republic and Romania to coastal France and Greece. This offers a unique opportunity to compare their environment.
     Our project deals with the idea of water, its importance, and the necessity to protect it. Our objective is to promote students’ awareness of this issue that is becoming more and more important in our life. We want to reach this objective by implementing activities focused on this topic. By working on the theme of water we will learn about it from different points of view: its characteristics, its occurrence, its importance for life, its role in the countryside, the ways to protect it, etc. We will learn the facts and work with them in a creative way.
     The project will develop a positive attitude toward science, experiments, exploring.
     The students will learn about the relationship between humans and nature and develop a better understanding of their personal power to influence things. The project will not include just theory but also very concrete activities helping the environment.
     The other very important objective of the project is international cooperation. Children will experience cooperation and communication with people from different countries. The project will also improve communication skills in real situations. It will show the importance of the English language as an international language and raise the motivation for learning English.
     Mobilities make a very important part of the project. The experience of contact with a foreign country as a guest as well as a host is irreplaceable. The meetings will take place in each partner school. Some meetings will consist of student exchanges together with teacher training events, some of them just of student exchanges. During the meetings, we will implement the project activities. Teacher training events will be focused on experiments, implementing environmental education, sharing the experience with methodology, experiencing different climates, environment, and environmental issues.
     Children will have the opportunity to feel team spirit, cooperate. Even if not all pupils can take part in the student exchanges they will profit from hosting children from partner schools. The project work will increase the ICT knowledge and skills. Children will use a blog and e-Twinning for their communication. Children will experience group work, project work.
     The cooperation will also involve the families and the local community in school life. It will help to fight xenophobia. It will raise tolerance through learning about other cultures.
     The project will help the involved teachers not only to increase their qualifications but also to raise their motivation for work and fight against burnout.