Period: October 2020 – April 2023
Project scope:
PLASTEAM Project is aimed at educating pupils and staff from primary schools in responsibly using, consuming and recycling plastic items, informing about their environmental impact and providing didactical activities for promoting sustainable waste disposal and plastics management systems in primary schools.
Target groups:
The project directly addresses primary schools (teachers, students, headmasters etc.) but in the view of the whole-school approach, it also addresses other educational grades and institutions in order to promote cross-sectoral cooperation.
Project goals:
- Raise awareness among schools about the environmental impact of plastics
- Develop didactical activities for promoting good plastics management systems and practices for primary schools, targeting the reduction of single-use plastics items
- Provide pupils from a young age with the necessary skills to challenge existing production/consumption models, to improve them and to build new ones
- Transform pupils in environmental natives who hold “curiosity for the world and critical thinking”.
Activities and results:
- Plastic footprint APP: a plastic footprint APP will be developed to gather data on primary schools plastic behavior and investigate the waste disposal and recycling attitudes of primary schools.
- Recommendations & contest for plastic-free school: the project will develop a set of guidelines for school staff and students in order to implement sustainable practices using a top-down and bottom-up approach.
- STEAM Box & Lab: - a set of innovative didactical tools and activities will be designed and used within the STEAM fields to be easily integrated into structured curricula of primary schools.
Partners:
- Agora Roermond - Stichting Onderwijs Midden Limburg (Netherlands)
- National Center for Sustainable Production and Consumption Association (Romania)
- Gymnasium School no. 10 (Romania)
- MEDITERRANEAN INFORMATION OFFICE FOR ENVIRONMENT, CULTURE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION (Greece)
- ST MICHAEL SCHOOL (Malta)
- Finance & Banking, Associazione per lo Sviluppo Organizzativo e delle Risorse Umane (Italy)
- STICHTING NATIONAAL CENTRUM VOOR WETENSCHAPS EN TECHNOLOGIECOMMUNICATIE (Netherlands)
- PRIVATE SCHOOL THEMISTOKLIS (Greece)
