"The main objective of our Take care! Sustainable children - sustainable Earth -project is to educate children to become environmentally aware and caring, to live a sustainable life and develop our schools cultures in a more sustainable direction in order to slow down climate change. We see sustainability in a broad sense (Agenda 2030), but we focus mostly on the green and social goals in our project. Other goals of our project include developing both students’ and teachers’ social, intercultural, digital and language skills and teachers' pedagogical skills. To achieve the goals, we exchange and try good practices and we use experimental, student-activating and creative methods, especially outdoor education and project work. These methods, in turn, will affect on students’ initiative and encourage them to grow into active, responsible citizens.We are six countries, Finland, Belgium, Romania, Spain, Greece and Cyprus with altogether about 2700 mainly primary and preschool students, out of which about 2000 participate in the project directly. We are six different schools in eight units in different parts of Europe. Because we are different in size, location, greenness and cultural aspects, we can give a lot to each other: we can help each others to learn and open each other’s world views.The core activity of the project are four study projects, which concentrate on environmental topics going from the school and individual point of view to broader, community-developing perspective. The projects will be communicated and also partly realized in cross-cultural study groups, each consisting of about 20-25 pupils mostly aged 9-12, organized in eTwinning MySpace platform, where students work around certain green topics during each term. Students will give their own ideas to the topics and contents of their projects. The topics will be varied and practical, they could include for example improving school’s recycling system, studying students' water consumption, growing plants, making inventions or improving a community nature site. Teachers take care that outdoor education is used as a part of the study projects. Through active and outdoor learning methods we want to give the students deeper learning experiences and a chance to have impact on their surroundings and thus create hope in front of the big climate challenge.Learning takes place also in the whole school. Smaller pupils will take part in the project as a class and plan their own international study projects with the help of teachers. The whole school will also greet other schools through Skype, make nature trips, organize two Green seminars and participate in a ""Greenvision"" music contest. Schools will start working for an official green label, which will help them to improve their school culture in more sustainable direction in the long run.Social skills are learned through group work but also other social skills activities will be organized. Social cohesion activities will be organized in the beginning of the school year, anti-bullying campaigns and social skills activities and programmes will be applied during the school year.Some students and teachers will have a chance to participate in Learning, Training and Teaching weeks in participant countries. During these study weeks the participants will deepen their awareness and understanding of ecological issues, compare their schools’ green cultures, adopt good ideas to their own countries, develop their intercultural, language and social skills and broaden their world view. Teachers will also study different methods of outdoor education and digital skills during their Staff training week. There will be an international Skype meeting among the partner schools during each LTT-week, which give also other students the chance to benefit from the week.Assessment is a very important part of the project. There will be four different, repetitive questionnaires: for students, teachers and parents and a school evaluation. The expected results of the project in all participants include growing ecological awareness, willingness to protect nature, awareness of good social skills and readiness to influence on the community. For teachers, the expected results are broadened pedagogical skills and strengthened intercultural communication, language and digital skills.The end product will be a multilingual online book about tested and good activities for sustainable education, published on the project's webpage. All participant schools will take good care of sharing and dissemination. The communication inside and outside the school will be supported by school's and project's website, Erasmus Walls, Skype meetings, whole school meetings and Green seminars. Schools will invite representatives of neighbouring schools and make visits to inform them of and inspire them by the project. Students take part in sharing and dissemination. Local media will be invited to publish news and stories of the project."