Objectives

  • Exchange innovative experiences on environmental education between different countries.
  • Implement and explore holistic environmental learning approaches.
  • Practice experiential methods that help understanding scientific knowledge, building bridges between formal , non formal and informal education.
  • Train new skills and competences that contribute to a healthy and sustainable life and community.
  • Share tools that support the understanding of European environmental and educational policies
  • Discuss and identify crucial factors that ensure the quality of non formal environmental education.
  • Encourage young trainers and participants to create their own environmental education programs.
  • Create an e-book on the content and process practiced in the course with the intention to give visibility to the project and share the results.

OBJECTIVES IN RELATION TO ERAMUS+

This project discloses and supports the implementation of the objectives included in the Erasmus+. In addition, brings special attention to the Strategy 2020 for Education (ET2020)

  • Putting in practice life long learning, becoming a reality; and offering learning mobilities through refenrence european tools like SALTO
  • Bringing quality and effective in education, also by integrating basic competences and science knowledge in environmental education activities, such as (mathematical competence and basic competences in science and technology, reading and writing)
  • Fostering equality, social cohesion and active citizenship through the education on life skills
  • Promoting creativity and innovation. A sense of entrepreneurship with new innovative learning methods.

Strategy 2020 for Education (ET2020) propose 3 priorities that reinforce and support the accomplishment of their 5 main objectives (Employment, development & Innovation, Climate Change, fight against poverty and social inclusion).

The way we plan to integrate these 3 priorities is by promoting learning methods based on 3 SENSES:

* A Sense of Self, that encourage intelligent growth, developing economies based on knowledge and innovation

* A Sense of Place that involves sustainable development, promoting an economy based on an efficient use of resources, and based on ecological principles.

* A Sense of Community with an inclusive development based on an economy with healthy lifestyles, social cohesion and territorial diversity.

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