About the project

ENERGY FOR TOMORROW

2010-2012

About the project

PROJECT OBJECTIVES

• To improve the students and teachers behavior concerning the problem of saving energy;
• To improve students and teachers knowledge about regenerating energy at a local, national and European level;
• To support the concept of long life learning;
• To strength the role of lifelong learning in developing active European citizenship based on understanding, respect, tolerance, participation, environmental responsibility;
• To improve the communication skills, both for students and teachers, including in foreign languages (especially English);

WE INTEND THESE OBJECTIVES WILL BE ACHIEVED THROUGH THE FOLLOWING ACTIVITIES:

• project meetings;
• seminars, conferences, information sessions, workshops;
• researches, studies;
• making promotional materials (the folder "Simple ways for saving energy", the poster "Save energy");
• publications (the booklet "Energy, lifestyles and climate");
• developing the project web-site;
• contests;
• linguistic preparation of the personnel involved in the project;
• activities of dissemination and valorization of the project;
• activities of monitoring and evaluation of the project;

IMPACT OF THE PROJECT


The project's impact on students:

• knowing the effects of using conventional sources of energy over the environment;
• improvement the knowledge concerning the renewable energy's potential at the local, national and European level;
• knowing the advantages of using renewable energies;
• production of some small changes concerning the saving of energy in daily life;
• growth of the learning motivation;
• improvement of the methodological, digital, social, linguistic abilities;
• improvement of the knowledge about partners' culture;
• awareness of European citizenship;

The project's impact on teachers:

• improvement of the knowledge about the project's theme;
• making some small changes concerning the saving of energy in the daily life;
• improvement of the organizational and managerial competencies;
• improvement of the teaching competencies at the subjects involved in the project;
• improvement of the linguistic, digital, social abilities;
• increasing the motivation to involve in new activities;
• development of the knowledge about the civilization and educational system of other European countries;

The project's impact on the partner schools:

• integration of the project in the school's developing plan;
• improvement of the connection with the local community;
• development and consolidation of European dimension of educational activity through promoting some European values as the concern towards the environment and the responsibilities for the future generations;
• improvement the cooperation between teachers and between teachers and students;
• improvement the participation of parents in the school's activities;
• increasing the school's prestige in the local community;
• increasing the quality of the educational act at the subjects involved in the project;

The project's impact on the local community:

• increasing the interest for the environment's problems as a result of the spreading of the right message according to which for a durable future it is necessary to save energy and renewable sources of energy to be used;
• production of some small changes concerning the saving of energy, among parents and the representatives of the local community;
• improvement of the cooperation with other schools and local institutions;

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.
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