Active kids for a better future
Results of Erasmus+ project
Active kids for a better future
The main achievement of our project is the transformation that took place among the students and teachers of the 6 partner schools through the awareness of values related to active citizenship, volunteering, human rights and social and environmental responsibility, developing social and civic skills, inclusion and non-discrimination, as well as the development of active citizenship among the students of the six partner countries.
The exchange of experience and best practices carried out in the 6 mobilities and the numerous local activities determined a better result than the one estimated in the writing phase of the project. Through the questionnaire applied before the implementation of the project as well as after its implementation, they showed an increase of over 50 percentage points in the involvement and the desire to involve the students in social-civic and voluntary issues. During the project, students and teachers participated in volunteer actions consisting of helping needy people, raising funds to support sick children, supporting and encouraging the elderly and involving them in the activities carried out in the school. Students and staff planted trees, sanitized forests and green spaces, actively campaigned for waste selection and recycling. The students of the partner schools had meetings and collaborations with NGOs and local authorities, thus realizing the importance and usefulness of their actions.
The mobility participants developed skills, learned methods and techniques necessary to train students and their families in social-civic activities, volunteering and environmental protection. These skills, methods and techniques were disseminated locally in the school, but also in the professional environment outside the school. Participants and management teams developed enhanced communication skills both in their own language and communication in foreign languages. Through this project, school students, parents and the communities they belong to have become aware of European values, but also the positive effect on children. As a result, pro-European attitudes were visibly and concretely expressed. The cultural exchanges carried out within the project allowed the development of cultural expression skills both among the students and among the staff of the schools involved. The pandemic period, an obstacle in the unfolding process, allowed the development of digital skills more than we intended through the project. Complementary to the activities in the project, the implementation teams from the schools shared their methods and applications used in online teaching activities, practically creating a partnership between schools whose beneficiaries were the students during the pandemic isolation period.
The tangible results were: Website, logo, brochures, Braille book, eBooks, plays performed by children, a guide to making vermicompost, toys made of recyclable materials, a model of a solar oven and clothes made of recyclable materials.
Our project results
Logo
This logo was designed by students from the partner schools. Each school organized a competition in which the students of the schools participated. During the first mobility, in Romania, the participants came up with the winning proposals from each school, and voted for the winning logo. They could not vote on the works from their schools.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PldbjGETdaPq7vAyLNYvUSwF7fdmq-Kk/view?usp=sharing
Brown bear story – eBook
This eBook is the result of the activities carried out within the C1 mobility in Romania and the local activities of children from partner schools. In stream C1, mobility participants watched a play performed by children with a text adapted from the story „Brown Bear” written by Vladimir Colin. Upon returning, each partner school organized a drawing competition made by the children after listening to this story. Each school selected drawings belonging to a chapter of the story. The book was made in StoryJumper and can be used by anyone in lessons about inclusion and combating discrimination.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fo9a15fG0WAAamd77Vv1JYE-0rLdyt8E/view?usp=sharing
Toys from recyclable materials
As a result of the exchange of experience carried out within the mobilities, with the theme of selective collection and recycling of waste, various methods were presented to develop in children the habit and motivation to reuse recyclable materials. One of the methods agreed upon by all partners was the creation of exhibitions with toys made from recyclable materials. In the last mobility, the participants presented the achievements of the children from their schools to their partners.
Vermicomposting
Students have learned how to prepare compost and recycle kitchen garbage.we growed some vegetables at school by using these composts.
In the C2 mobility in Turkey, it was shown how the students of the host school recycle various organic waste making compost which they then use to fertilizes the school’s flowers and garden. The students here made a video guide for making this compost. Upon returning to their schools, the participants, with the help of the guide, showed students and teachers how to make compost and use it for gardening.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GPpV9smX29hXId3Bw_nuXj7OHmk9fbo3/view?usp=sharing
Game „Save the ecosystem„
During the workshops that took place in C6 mobility, the participants developed a game for students to develop their skills to protect the environment.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XknY4xp4ShZ9AsL0xly-xNOlaNjymMNq/view?usp=sharing
Developing active citizenship skills, inclusive attitudes
Before starting the project, all partners applied a questionnaire to their students. It showed the need to develop social-civic skills and inclusive attitudes. At the end of the project, the same questionnaire was applied. It was found that as a result of the project’s activities, an increase of over 60 points in positive responses in all partner schools
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Intangible results
Social and civic abilities and competences, English and intercultural communication for both students and teachers.
Development of inclusive attitudes, tolerance and involvement in society Developing digital competences
Developing pro-European attitudes
PRODUCTION OF MATERIAL
-Braille book
-A model of a neighbourhood without architectonic barriers
-Short movies
-Ebooks and Ecomic books
-Theatrical plays written and directed by students
-Solar pannel and wind-turbines
-Planting trees
-Vermicompost
-Recycled toys
-Eco friendly clothes and accesories made by students for a fashion show
-Exposition about marine plastic pollution
-Exposition about local forests
-Lapbook about local species of birds