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"Climate change is perhaps the biggest challenge which affects the whole planet, from poles to the tropics and from mountains to oceans. People and nature are already feeling the effects: water resources are shrinking, extreme weather events are increasing, forests are burning and damaging the ecosystem.The FINAL COUNTDOWN has begun in terms of the danger of environmental degradation from human activities. As conscious and responsible European citizens, we feel obliged to reverse this event before it is too late. With the right will and efforts, we can find better ways to live to keep the Earth as a thriving green planet.With this in mind, we have come together as 6 schools from Iceland, Turkey, Greece, Spain, Portugal and Italy and decided to implement this project. ""The Final Countdown"" project addresses the students who are 11-15 years old and 36 teachers from the participant schools.The objectives are to:-increase the awareness of climate change;-integrate climate change relevant themes sustainably into education in schools;-foster the exchange and share of experiences and good practices on climate change education among schools, -identify learning materials, on climate change education -increase the creation of and access to information and innovative solutions for education on climate change and sustainable development;-promote closer linkages between European schools -streghten the teaching competences of the teachers -improve the participants' ICT and language skills which are very important for their future careers.-increase the participants' tolerance to different cultures.-improve the participant's creative thinking and problem solving skills;90 students (15 from each partner school) will be directly involved in the project. 124 more students will take place in local activities of the project.36 teachers from various branches will improve their teaching competences by being trained on ESD to help their students understand the danger of climate change and how to mitigate and adopt it.Other students and teachers of the schools, parents and local institutions will be affected directly by being informed about the project.3 joint staff meeting events will be held throughout the project, in Turkey, Iceland and Portugal.Through staff training events participants will exhange good practice models to create new approaches in environmental education and give guidance for mainstreaming climate change education into school curricula by preparing teaching materials to use in classrooms.3 transnational pupils' exchanges will be organized in 3 partner schools, in Spain, Greece and Italy. During the exchanges the participants will work in groups and communicate in English which help them improve their linguistic skills develop their ICT skills using Web2 Tools, preparing presentations, videos, animations and using diagrams. They will do researches to get the knowledge. The activities will enhance the participants' creative thinking and problem solving abilities. They will also be aware of the climate change problem other countries face and learn to tolarate dfferent cultures by taking places in these exchanges.We will organize various events such as workshops, webinars, training days, contests, campaigns, national and European conferences etc.Thus we will increase the awareness of our target groups' on environmental problems. Through those activities our target people will acquire the necessary behaviors to reverse climate change.A mobile phone application about ecological footprint and climate change, a photogallery of the project activities, a brochure, the project website, a YouTube channel,18 teaching materials on environmental education, an eTwinning Project, 6 Surveys conveyed after each mobility and reports of their results, 2 booklets about global warming and experiments on it, a short film are the tangible results.The intangible results are raised awareness of climate change and its effects, improved teaching competences and exchanged good practices of the participant teachers,developed language and IT skills, raised tolerance towards different cultures, improved creative thinking and problem solving ability, a network between partner schools for next collaborations.Each school will organize conferences for other teaching staff in their regions to share their gainings through this project. Partner schools will keep contact to support each other with necessary materials created with the gainings of the “The Final countdown” Project. The teaching materials prepared by the participant teachers will be integrated in the school curriculum and will be used even after the project. They will also be downloadable on eTwinning and Erasmus+ project results platfom. The project social media channels will be active after the project ends. We believe this project will raise awareness among our target audience on combating climate change in order to become concious citizens to take action."
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