Joint Environmental Training

"The main objective of the project, entitled Joint Environmental Training, is to raise awareness of young people to a responsible attitude towards environmental protection and preservation , through education for sustainable development. The partnership is made by four secondary schools which have similar needs and still different enough to help each other effectively and are able to motivate each other too.In ITE Feliciano Scarpellini they observe a high percentage of students who aren’t aware about environmental problems and where it is very important to re- think the traditional way of educating and teaching. With this project they intend to stimulate student's critical thinking and guide behaviour to reach environmental awareness in Umbria ""the green heart of Italy"". The school is a really experienced project coordinator with IT and tourism courses.The French school needs this project to make a contribution to the price of the conscience of the students of today, who are the citizens of tomorrow. In their school they have a few specific actions to save the environment but teachers feel that students still have no account and do not change their behavior. It therefore seems important to them through this project, not only to make them aware of the issue but above all to initiate postures that will lead them to adopt best practices. In addition, during the review of their school project this year, all the family partners, teachers and the students themselves highlighted the urgency and the need to address the problem.The Croatian partners want to show their students how other European countries respect the socio-cultural authenticity of host communities, conserve their built and living cultural heritage and traditional values. They think this project would contribute to inter-cultural understanding and tolerance. As a touristic school they want to emphasise the optimal use of environmental resources that constitute a key element in tourism development, maintaining essential ecological processes and helping to conserve natural heritage and biodiversity.The Hungarian school is in an average town but has commuting students from 30 villages from around the school. They live in disadvantaged villages where sustainable agriculture and tourism could be students' future. They should see good practices in other countries, that are more developed in this field, to learn how to use their natural values and knowledge in their studies and in their future life.The main topics of the project in the first year will be: 1. saving energy in school, at home and with traffic, 2. shopping with purpose, shopping in an environmentally friendly way, 3. getting to know local products, 4. preserving, cleaning, renewing school items. In the second year we will concentrate on: 1. examining the constitution and effects of computing tools, 2. flora and fauna and local products of the participating countries, 3. biomimicry. We want to show our students that the optimal use of environmental resources constitute a key element in maintaining essential ecological processes, helping to conserve natural heritage and biodiversity. We would like to deal with environmental issues in many subjects on special lessons to motivate both our students and teachers to be more active. We expect our students and teachers to use - especially their scientific - studies in really enjoyable yet very useful new ways to experience the topic of our project and to become motivated in the long run to take care of the environment.The four institutes should aim to develop in students the basic elements of their rights and duties as global citizens, with a special attention to the productive world and enterprises . We would like to focus our attention on the sustainable industrial development at a national and International level. The teams will work with the support of new technologies trying to make the acquisition of the environmental new competences more attractive and in line with the attitudes of the new generations . The students should learn to critically assess individual and collective behaviour, and thus to know and appreciate virtuous experiences from institutions, businesses, citizens, know the operational tools to contribute and acquire the basis to become the professionals of sustainable development, green economy and circular tomorrow."