Project
As cultivating environmental awareness seems imperative for the future generations we thought that a project that gains insight in the consumption of energy and the use of R.E.S. as well as recycling would make the future citizens of the European Union more active in school. School buildings should be transformed into sustainable ones and, although the progress will be rather slow, we need to find a starting point.We aim at promoting an understanding in depth of the crucial value of environmental education and how it will help students to become a more active citizen of the 21st century.
Objectives
- raising ecological awareness and forming eco communities of young people
- promoting inclusive eco-education through concrete trainings and innovative practices
- upgrading teaching methods in science, math, technology and other relevant subjects
- providing an opportunity for exposure of new researches and developments
- defining and sharing good practices, providing guidance and triggering new future initiatives to be pursued in each school building.
- motivating and enhancing the teachers’ skills in finding new ideas and suitable proposals and solutions through discussions and sharing.
- developing transversal, entrepreneurial and organizational skills such as problem solving and critical thinking and enhancing the ability to work as part of a team, develop ideas and so promote change.
Target groups
The main target groups of this project are students and teachers involved in the project. However, there are several other
target groups that will benefit indirectly. Among them is the whole school community and the rest of the staff ( teaching
and non-teaching). Even the families of the participants will be involved in the project in many ways, receiving and
promoting the goals of the project.
Results
- the production of an Energy Efficiency Certificate for each partner and the calculation of the ecological footprint
- the building of eco friendly smart bins in each school
- the implementation of STEM applications at the school laboratory suitably
- guidelines, best-practice examples, video records of the experiments/workshops
- an online learning platfom and project website
Partnership
The project “Eco STEM” is co-created with the international cooperation of four organizations. Get to know our goals, activities and contact details.
