Motivated? Definitely YES!
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Considering that environment and climate action are key priorities for the EU and that the “European Green Deal Communication” highlights the role of schools, training institutions and universities in the eco-transition to be completed by 2050, being inspired by the sustainable goals of Agenda 2030 (in particular 13 and 15), based on the protection of our planet’s natural resources and climate for future generations, and the importance of forests for human existence, stated by the SOFO report 2018, issued by the United Nations . |
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the project “Forest Fire Prevention” aims at making the students aware of environmental issues such as forest fires, climate changes, global warming, deforestation and focusing the richness of ecosystems biodiversity in Europe and beyond.
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Forests are the “lungs” of our planet and host more than 75% of the biodiversity on the Earth (according to 2018 FAO report), their value for human beings is priceless. Millions of people, animals and plants are in danger, depending on the future of forested areas. That’s why all the countries in this partnership, living every year the dramatic experience of forest fires inside their own territories, want to carry out this project at a transnational way in order to compare ideas, studies, proposals and solutions from each partner school and prepare all together prevention campaigns for protecting our natural environments. Taking inspiration from the e-Twinning project "Forest Fire Prevention", started in January 2021 and carried out very successfully and awarded by National and European Quality Labels, Italy, Turkey and Poland had the idea of transforming this e-Twinning project in an Erasmus one in order to deal with environmental issues at a larger scale adding new partner schools. Portugal, Greece and Spain were added to this partnership.
Mobilities will add a European value and will permit to compare our results in face-to-face meetings, by both Transnational Meetings and Learning Teaching Training Activities, after a first period of virtual meetings only by means of e-Twinning platform. Although all of us have already carried out other school projects about environmental issues, we believe that these initiatives are not enough, that they need to be focused and analyzed from different perspectives, explored by different methodologies and implemented through creative and innovative activities where the students/learners have a central role and they could be able to build their own learning.
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Another great conquest we want to get is the breaking of the boundaries between the disciplines. Forests will be the common thread able to connect all the subjects inside our curricula: Biology, Science, Chemistry, Literature, Art, Technology, Computer Science, Civic Education and others. Associated persons will help in this educational path, in particular the University of Messina (Italy, Sicily) and the University of Life Sciences in Lublin (Poland).
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The more definite the goals,
the stronger the project
The project aims at achieving the following objectives: increasing teachers and students’ awareness of forest fires and ways of preventing them; disseminating information concerning forest fires and the measures that can be taken in everyday life to prevent them; contributing in fulfilling the EU’s overarching objective to halt the loss of biodiversity by raising people’s awareness of the gravity of the forest fires problem ; creating an information and dissemination campaign for preventing deforestation and climate changes; - learning to collaborate both virtually and face-to-face with students and teachers from different EU countries ;
the stronger the project
The project aims at achieving the following objectives: increasing teachers and students’ awareness of forest fires and ways of preventing them; disseminating information concerning forest fires and the measures that can be taken in everyday life to prevent them; contributing in fulfilling the EU’s overarching objective to halt the loss of biodiversity by raising people’s awareness of the gravity of the forest fires problem ; creating an information and dissemination campaign for preventing deforestation and climate changes; - learning to collaborate both virtually and face-to-face with students and teachers from different EU countries ;
- improving the participants’ communication skills in foreign languages for both students and teachers and increasing intercultural awareness ;
- integrating ICTs, open virtual learning and digital contents during the process teaching in order to develop digital skills for all the participants;
- promoting the students' involvement, commitment, democratic participation and active citizenship;
- ensuring inclusion and equal opportunities to everyone breaking down any cultural, economic, geographical or educational obstacle;
- developing practices aimed at bridging the gap in education resulting from different locations, social backgrounds or economic status;
- strengthening the relationship between schools and territory (institutions) for common action and environment responsibility and sustainability;
- developing non-formal education methods in addition to the formal ones and improving the level of key competences;
- promoting the EU idea of Lifelong Learning; raising students’ awareness of the European Union, its policies and importance in shaping young people’s futures;
- supporting the development of a high-performing digital education system;
- exchanging professional experience, teaching methods and techniques;
- improving teachers’ qualifications and enhancing creativity and innovation at school.
Our priority is to strengthen the level of key competences for both teachers and students in particular linguistic and digital skills in order to foster the quality, the innovation and internationalization of education system in each participant country. The promotion of language learning and linguistic diversity will lead all the activities inside the partnership being aware that the lack of language competences is a real obstacle for social integration, European citizenship and labor market for the future citizens.
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Concrete results are expected during the project both tangible and not tangible such as analysis, reports, spots, videos, digital banners for the prevention campaigns and also digital collections of poems about forests, paintings and drawings about forestry and nature inside national and European competitions, study cases and articles for the Scientific Magazine. About the intangible results, we will expect the improvement of skills, the development of critical thinking and environmental responsibility.