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The TrEE project aims to develop a European network of environmental educators and recycling practitioners to improve environmental education programs. It will provide training tools and facilitate an exchange of experiences and practices between partner countries. Activities will include researching policies and programs, identifying best practices, and organizing local exhibitions of artifacts produced through workshops. The results will be documented in instructional videos and a photo catalogue to spread awareness of recycling methods and promote sustainable development.

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1 TrEE Teaching recycling and Environmental Education Newsletter 1 November 2013 TrEE Newsletter 1 TrEE Newsletter 1 dedicated to the project TrEE Teaching recycling and Environmental Education, a Grundtvig Learning Partnership promoted by: Ulixes scs (IT) - coordinator Association "Social center Burgas" (BG) The Environmental Academy Ltd (UK) MONTE, Desenvolvimento Alentejo Central ACE (PT) Scoala cu calsele I-VIII Nicolae VeleaCepari (RO) NORTH MATRA ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ASSOCIATION (HU) Syddansk Erhvervsskole (DK) Malatya Province Directorate of National Education (TR) Index Program 1 Summary 2 Objectvies 2 Partners 3 Work Plan 5 kick-off meeting 6 Next Steps 7 FINANCING PROGRAMME Grundtvig Learning Partnership is a reference project for cooperation activities on a small scale among institutions that deal with adult education, in its widest meaning. In a Grundtvig Learning Partnership, trainers and trainees, at least from three of the countries that join the LLP Programme, work together on one or more topics of common interest. Through the exchange of experiences, practices and methods, this project contributes to increase sensibility, in all the subjects involved, to European culture, society and economy. Furthermore, it fosters a better comprehension of the areas of common interest in adult education. This line of financing is included into Grundtvig, which is the EU-funding programme focused on teaching and on the learning needs of people involved in adult education and alternative forms of education. This programme does not include formal teaching institutions only, but also cultural organisations, local bodies that deal with information, communication and citizen consciousness, etc. This is fully in line with Lifelong Learning Programme background and objectives. The programme supports learning opportunities, from childhood to old age, in every step of one's life, including those activities that help improving a persons skills, abilities and competencies during everyday life, such as theoretical, practical and social knowledge, communication skills, logical abilities, etc.
2 SUMMARY As expected from the EU's growth strategy for the next decade, "Europe 2020", the environmental issue is one of the global challenges that European Union is facing. In fact, environmental protection is a priority for a smart, sustainable and inclusive growth in order to promote a sustainable economy, which would limit the negative effects on the environment. The project TrEE aims to help the fulfillment of this strategy through the development of a European network of trainers, teachers and practitioners of environmental education and recycling. Furthermore, it intends to provide them with the necessary tools for an effective training, to establish a virtuous circle of exchange of experiences and good practice between different countries, in order to create a flexible and shared programme of environmental education to be used in schools. The partnership wants to bring about an exchange of experiences and opportunities through transnational meetings of teachers, trainers and learners. In addition, it intends to establish a network of local museums of environmental education and recycling that collect the artefacts produced in each country through competitions and local projects. The results will conflate into a series of instructional videos as tools for training in recycling methods in order to improve the implementation of environmental education programmes, and into a final photo catalogue that will document the activities of the countries involved. OBJECTIVES The general objectives of the project are: To develop training programmes in collaboration with institutions and other local authorities; To identify assessment tools in order to compare the methods differently used, to create an analytical study and a comparison among different practices; To make students responsible for the realisation of the change, in line with the needs of sustainability of our world, involving them in action-oriented learning activities The operative objectives of the project are: 1. Research of: national and local policies of environmental education and sustainable development, programmes of learning and training, didactic methods in use; 2. Selection of: best practices, methods and innovative tools in order to improve environmental education; 3. Activation of: Local activities through the involvement of schools and other educational bodies as means to realise workshops and activities of environmental didactics and/or recycle. The products resulted from these activities and workshops will be exposed in a local exhibition (within the European Recycling Festival, an event that will link all local exhibitions). Subsequently the products will be included in a local museum of environmental didactics and recycle. A photo catalogue will gather the experiences of all participants. 4 . Dissemination: A blog, a Facebook account, 3 Newsletters, meetings with local stakeholders, media press, a Video Collection and a photo catalogue will be the instruments of distribution and advertising of the activities.
3 Ulixes scs A no profit organisation that deals with environmental education: Ulixes organises educational and consciousness campaigns, addressed to students and their parents, meetings and workshops. Moreover, it has supervised studies, researches and didactics books on this topic. Its working fields are: ENVIROMENT, TOURISM AND PROMOTION OF THEIR TERRITORY, SOCIAL INCLUSION www.cooperativaulixes.it PARTNERS Association "Social center Burgas" A no profit association with the purpose to promote and support sustainable cultural and socio-economic development and social inclusion of people with special needs, training and supporting them during their activities and in social life. These people are involved in what is the main activity of the association, which is the creative workshop, where they are taught sustainable development, environmental protection, waste management, recycle, re-use, etc The Environmental Academy Ltd A centre of excellence for environmental training, particularly vocational accredited courses and e - learning. The centre has experience in the fields of research, environmental education, studies on recycle and waste minimisation, environmental seminars and event organisation. www.environmental-academy.co.uk MONTE, Desenvolvimento Alentejo Central ACE Monte is no profit private entity responsible for the implementation of the Programme LEADER in Arraiolos, Alentejo Central, South of Portugal. It has experience in rural, environmental and training projects, with the purpose to promote an integrated and sustainable development. www.monte-ace.pt
4 Scoala cu calsele I-VIII Nicolae VeleaCepari It is a school situated in a rural area, in the Cepari town, that provides education for students of pre-primary, and secondary level. Among various activities organised by the school (cultural, sports, adult education) many of them are ecologic and concern the area of Topolog river. In addition, it is involved in awareness activities about the necessity of selective collection, environmental protection, health education, evaluation of folk traditions and customs. NORTH MATRA ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ASSOCIATION It is an association founded in 2001, by people interested in saving natural values of the North Matra Mountain and motivated in environmental protection activities. Its main activities are: analysis of environmental conditions, assessment of water quality, organisation of actions and contests in order to improve life conditions, waste collection and the implementation of trees in the city. Syddansk Erhvervsskole It is the biggest VET provider in Denmark. It offers initial and continuing vocational education for young people and adults. The college offers 45 different professional programmes clustered in ten areas (media, IT, services, health, construction, production, automation, food and catering, transports and automotive). Furthermore, the college has a senior high school that offers academic courses for young people. www.sde.dk Malatya Province Directorate of National Education Its a provincal directorate of National Eductaion which is responsible for providing education to 120.000 students with its about 10.000 teachers in Malatya, a province in the Middle East of Anatolia (OTADOU ANADOLU) region . Along with its responsibility for delivering any kind of education to any age groups, it also organizes some kinds of activities and/or training courses for awarness-raising about environment and recycling, aiming at creating responsible citizens. http://malatya.meb.gov.tr/
5 WORK PLAN 1 . Initial research: Each partner will collect data and materials on: National / regional / local framework of Environmental Education; All the projects carried out locally and proposed as Best Practices (innovative tools, training methods or experimental activities, etc.). 2 . Selection of best practices: All the selected projects will be presents in a publication (electronic format), realised with materials provided by all partners. 3 . Implementation of innovative training activities: 3.1 . Each partner will make a local informal announcement (invitation) in order to realise innovative training activities, environmental education and/or recycle. First convocation from January 2014 to May 2014; Second convocation from September 2014 to March 2015; 3.2 . The participants (be they classrooms and/or other groups) will be able to realise: Tools and/or Products of environmental didactics, of environmental phenomena knowledge or of environmental decay, recycle practices and/or re-use. Didactic videos on environmental phenomena, or on environmental decay, recycle practices and/or re-use. 3.3 . . The participants (be they classrooms or other groups) will realise a local exhibition supported by the partner organisation as means to expose the results of the training activity; such exhibition will be a local stop of the European Festival Recycling. The partner organisations will also realise a photo gallery of this exhibition, and the products will be exposed permanently at the headquarters of the partner organisations as environmental didactics and recycling local museums. 4 . Distribution and evaluation of the results 4.1 . The activities of the project will be distributed, during and after its term, through a blog, a Facebook page, a Twitter and a YouTube account created ad hoc. 4.2 . Three newsletters will be realised: Presentation of the project TrEE, with its purposes and objectives and a presentation of the partner organisations; Presentation of the selected Best Practices; Presentation of the output of TrEE. 4.3 . Local Exhibitions: Each partner will realise a local exhibition. At the end of the project, a final photo catalogue and a Video Collection will be created in order to collect materials from each partner. 4.4 . Daily articles, local magazines and local meetings with the interested parties. 4.5 . Dissemination plan in order to export the experience. 5. International meetings I. Meeting in Italy: 28th 31st October 2013 Kick-off meeting; II. Meeting in UK: 7th 10th April 2014 Presentation of national researches; III. Meeting in Bulgaria: 1st 4th July 2014 Presentation of the Best Practices; IV. Meeting in Turkey: 13th 16th October 2014 Report of the first step of Local Exhibition; V. Meeting in Portugal: 20th 23rd April 2015 Report of the second step of Local Exhibition; 1. Meeting in Italy: 3rd 6th June 2015 Finale Event.
6 KICK-OFF MEETING The project TrEE - Teaching recycling and environmental education officially started with the first meeting on 28th to 31st of October that gathered 15 among teachers and trainers. The meeting was in Bitonto at Officine Culturali. Methods, activities and environmental didactic programmes, teaching practices, playful participation and involvement on re-use topics, such as recycle and garbage disposal. These, briefly, were the topics discussed during the first of six meetings planned for the project TrEE. On the first day the partners were introduced. On the second day, the next step was an analysis of the project "Green classrooms in Italian schools. An experimental project with the purpose to investigate the intercultural aspect of biodiversity, presented by Prof. Alberto Fornasari, of University of Bari, and the project "Ri-crea Festival", presented by the Association Fatti dArte. In the afternoon, the partners visited the cooperative Artelier in Bari, where they could observe methods and materials to dye fabrics and realise dresses in a sustainable and ecologic way.
7 NEXT STEPS Info: Blog: http://teachingrecycling2013.blogspot.ro/ Email: tree.project.llp@gmail.com This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This communication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. Research Best practice local exibitions

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  • 1. 1 TrEE Teaching recycling and Environmental Education Newsletter 1 November 2013 TrEE Newsletter 1 TrEE Newsletter 1 dedicated to the project TrEE Teaching recycling and Environmental Education, a Grundtvig Learning Partnership promoted by: Ulixes scs (IT) - coordinator Association "Social center Burgas" (BG) The Environmental Academy Ltd (UK) MONTE, Desenvolvimento Alentejo Central ACE (PT) Scoala cu calsele I-VIII Nicolae VeleaCepari (RO) NORTH MATRA ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ASSOCIATION (HU) Syddansk Erhvervsskole (DK) Malatya Province Directorate of National Education (TR) Index Program 1 Summary 2 Objectvies 2 Partners 3 Work Plan 5 kick-off meeting 6 Next Steps 7 FINANCING PROGRAMME Grundtvig Learning Partnership is a reference project for cooperation activities on a small scale among institutions that deal with adult education, in its widest meaning. In a Grundtvig Learning Partnership, trainers and trainees, at least from three of the countries that join the LLP Programme, work together on one or more topics of common interest. Through the exchange of experiences, practices and methods, this project contributes to increase sensibility, in all the subjects involved, to European culture, society and economy. Furthermore, it fosters a better comprehension of the areas of common interest in adult education. This line of financing is included into Grundtvig, which is the EU-funding programme focused on teaching and on the learning needs of people involved in adult education and alternative forms of education. This programme does not include formal teaching institutions only, but also cultural organisations, local bodies that deal with information, communication and citizen consciousness, etc. This is fully in line with Lifelong Learning Programme background and objectives. The programme supports learning opportunities, from childhood to old age, in every step of one's life, including those activities that help improving a persons skills, abilities and competencies during everyday life, such as theoretical, practical and social knowledge, communication skills, logical abilities, etc.
  • 2. 2 SUMMARY As expected from the EU's growth strategy for the next decade, "Europe 2020", the environmental issue is one of the global challenges that European Union is facing. In fact, environmental protection is a priority for a smart, sustainable and inclusive growth in order to promote a sustainable economy, which would limit the negative effects on the environment. The project TrEE aims to help the fulfillment of this strategy through the development of a European network of trainers, teachers and practitioners of environmental education and recycling. Furthermore, it intends to provide them with the necessary tools for an effective training, to establish a virtuous circle of exchange of experiences and good practice between different countries, in order to create a flexible and shared programme of environmental education to be used in schools. The partnership wants to bring about an exchange of experiences and opportunities through transnational meetings of teachers, trainers and learners. In addition, it intends to establish a network of local museums of environmental education and recycling that collect the artefacts produced in each country through competitions and local projects. The results will conflate into a series of instructional videos as tools for training in recycling methods in order to improve the implementation of environmental education programmes, and into a final photo catalogue that will document the activities of the countries involved. OBJECTIVES The general objectives of the project are: To develop training programmes in collaboration with institutions and other local authorities; To identify assessment tools in order to compare the methods differently used, to create an analytical study and a comparison among different practices; To make students responsible for the realisation of the change, in line with the needs of sustainability of our world, involving them in action-oriented learning activities The operative objectives of the project are: 1. Research of: national and local policies of environmental education and sustainable development, programmes of learning and training, didactic methods in use; 2. Selection of: best practices, methods and innovative tools in order to improve environmental education; 3. Activation of: Local activities through the involvement of schools and other educational bodies as means to realise workshops and activities of environmental didactics and/or recycle. The products resulted from these activities and workshops will be exposed in a local exhibition (within the European Recycling Festival, an event that will link all local exhibitions). Subsequently the products will be included in a local museum of environmental didactics and recycle. A photo catalogue will gather the experiences of all participants. 4 . Dissemination: A blog, a Facebook account, 3 Newsletters, meetings with local stakeholders, media press, a Video Collection and a photo catalogue will be the instruments of distribution and advertising of the activities.
  • 3. 3 Ulixes scs A no profit organisation that deals with environmental education: Ulixes organises educational and consciousness campaigns, addressed to students and their parents, meetings and workshops. Moreover, it has supervised studies, researches and didactics books on this topic. Its working fields are: ENVIROMENT, TOURISM AND PROMOTION OF THEIR TERRITORY, SOCIAL INCLUSION www.cooperativaulixes.it PARTNERS Association "Social center Burgas" A no profit association with the purpose to promote and support sustainable cultural and socio-economic development and social inclusion of people with special needs, training and supporting them during their activities and in social life. These people are involved in what is the main activity of the association, which is the creative workshop, where they are taught sustainable development, environmental protection, waste management, recycle, re-use, etc The Environmental Academy Ltd A centre of excellence for environmental training, particularly vocational accredited courses and e - learning. The centre has experience in the fields of research, environmental education, studies on recycle and waste minimisation, environmental seminars and event organisation. www.environmental-academy.co.uk MONTE, Desenvolvimento Alentejo Central ACE Monte is no profit private entity responsible for the implementation of the Programme LEADER in Arraiolos, Alentejo Central, South of Portugal. It has experience in rural, environmental and training projects, with the purpose to promote an integrated and sustainable development. www.monte-ace.pt
  • 4. 4 Scoala cu calsele I-VIII Nicolae VeleaCepari It is a school situated in a rural area, in the Cepari town, that provides education for students of pre-primary, and secondary level. Among various activities organised by the school (cultural, sports, adult education) many of them are ecologic and concern the area of Topolog river. In addition, it is involved in awareness activities about the necessity of selective collection, environmental protection, health education, evaluation of folk traditions and customs. NORTH MATRA ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ASSOCIATION It is an association founded in 2001, by people interested in saving natural values of the North Matra Mountain and motivated in environmental protection activities. Its main activities are: analysis of environmental conditions, assessment of water quality, organisation of actions and contests in order to improve life conditions, waste collection and the implementation of trees in the city. Syddansk Erhvervsskole It is the biggest VET provider in Denmark. It offers initial and continuing vocational education for young people and adults. The college offers 45 different professional programmes clustered in ten areas (media, IT, services, health, construction, production, automation, food and catering, transports and automotive). Furthermore, the college has a senior high school that offers academic courses for young people. www.sde.dk Malatya Province Directorate of National Education Its a provincal directorate of National Eductaion which is responsible for providing education to 120.000 students with its about 10.000 teachers in Malatya, a province in the Middle East of Anatolia (OTADOU ANADOLU) region . Along with its responsibility for delivering any kind of education to any age groups, it also organizes some kinds of activities and/or training courses for awarness-raising about environment and recycling, aiming at creating responsible citizens. http://malatya.meb.gov.tr/
  • 5. 5 WORK PLAN 1 . Initial research: Each partner will collect data and materials on: National / regional / local framework of Environmental Education; All the projects carried out locally and proposed as Best Practices (innovative tools, training methods or experimental activities, etc.). 2 . Selection of best practices: All the selected projects will be presents in a publication (electronic format), realised with materials provided by all partners. 3 . Implementation of innovative training activities: 3.1 . Each partner will make a local informal announcement (invitation) in order to realise innovative training activities, environmental education and/or recycle. First convocation from January 2014 to May 2014; Second convocation from September 2014 to March 2015; 3.2 . The participants (be they classrooms and/or other groups) will be able to realise: Tools and/or Products of environmental didactics, of environmental phenomena knowledge or of environmental decay, recycle practices and/or re-use. Didactic videos on environmental phenomena, or on environmental decay, recycle practices and/or re-use. 3.3 . . The participants (be they classrooms or other groups) will realise a local exhibition supported by the partner organisation as means to expose the results of the training activity; such exhibition will be a local stop of the European Festival Recycling. The partner organisations will also realise a photo gallery of this exhibition, and the products will be exposed permanently at the headquarters of the partner organisations as environmental didactics and recycling local museums. 4 . Distribution and evaluation of the results 4.1 . The activities of the project will be distributed, during and after its term, through a blog, a Facebook page, a Twitter and a YouTube account created ad hoc. 4.2 . Three newsletters will be realised: Presentation of the project TrEE, with its purposes and objectives and a presentation of the partner organisations; Presentation of the selected Best Practices; Presentation of the output of TrEE. 4.3 . Local Exhibitions: Each partner will realise a local exhibition. At the end of the project, a final photo catalogue and a Video Collection will be created in order to collect materials from each partner. 4.4 . Daily articles, local magazines and local meetings with the interested parties. 4.5 . Dissemination plan in order to export the experience. 5. International meetings I. Meeting in Italy: 28th 31st October 2013 Kick-off meeting; II. Meeting in UK: 7th 10th April 2014 Presentation of national researches; III. Meeting in Bulgaria: 1st 4th July 2014 Presentation of the Best Practices; IV. Meeting in Turkey: 13th 16th October 2014 Report of the first step of Local Exhibition; V. Meeting in Portugal: 20th 23rd April 2015 Report of the second step of Local Exhibition; 1. Meeting in Italy: 3rd 6th June 2015 Finale Event.
  • 6. 6 KICK-OFF MEETING The project TrEE - Teaching recycling and environmental education officially started with the first meeting on 28th to 31st of October that gathered 15 among teachers and trainers. The meeting was in Bitonto at Officine Culturali. Methods, activities and environmental didactic programmes, teaching practices, playful participation and involvement on re-use topics, such as recycle and garbage disposal. These, briefly, were the topics discussed during the first of six meetings planned for the project TrEE. On the first day the partners were introduced. On the second day, the next step was an analysis of the project "Green classrooms in Italian schools. An experimental project with the purpose to investigate the intercultural aspect of biodiversity, presented by Prof. Alberto Fornasari, of University of Bari, and the project "Ri-crea Festival", presented by the Association Fatti dArte. In the afternoon, the partners visited the cooperative Artelier in Bari, where they could observe methods and materials to dye fabrics and realise dresses in a sustainable and ecologic way.
  • 7. 7 NEXT STEPS Info: Blog: http://teachingrecycling2013.blogspot.ro/ Email: tree.project.llp@gmail.com This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This communication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. Research Best practice local exibitions