Calendar

Appoximate starting date	Activity/Mobility description	Destination country (mobility)	Partners involved
August 2008	Meeting of the Comenius project team within each school to choose the methods and materials they will use in introducing and doing the project activities		each partner school
August 2008	Contacting local authorities in order to get to know real local problems and needs related to sustainable development issues.		each partner school
Sept-October 2008	Lessons regarding environmental problems throughout different classes from the school curriculum ( biology, geography, technology, chemistry ,arts, English, philosophy)		each partner school
October 2008 – June 2009	Optional course “Pollution – causes and effects”		RO
October 2008	Project meeting to discuss the beginning of the project and decide upon its future development	RO	all partner schools
November 2008	Writing projects about the environmental problems they have found out during lessons (air pollution)		each partner school
October-Nov 2008	Search for and discover ways to save energy/water/paper in our homes and schools		each partner school
December 2008	Sending projects and leaflets they have produced to the partner schools to share information ( using English and different languages of the project partners)		each partner school
Dec2008/May 2009/Dec2009 /May 2010	Collecting used corks of wine bottles for coating ceilings and floors		PT
Dec.2008-Jan.2009	Building up a web site of the project which will be updated every other two months with information from all partner schools		ES, TR
Dec.2008-June 2010	Creating electronic portfolios every other three months, which shall render the project process, curriculum and students’ work, transferring them on the website		TR, PT
January 2009	Teachers’ exchange: Meeting to discuss about involving local authorities and population, visiting an ec0-house, a regional park. Presentation of a local project by the mayor.	FR	each partner school
January- June 2009	Weekly/Monthly differentiated waste collection		each partner school
January 2009	Composting as an ecological process		ES, FR
January 2009	Introducing biological food in the school restaurants		ES, FR
February 2009	Creating posters about the environment for the school board		each partner school
March 2009	Creating a “green corner” in each classroom		each partner school
March 2009	Talking about eating habits at home and in schools		ES, RO, TR
May 2009	Visiting Natural parks to observe soil and water pollution and biodiversity		RO,FR, ES,PT
May 2009	Project meeting to evaluate the students, teachers and parents” involvement in the project	LT	each partner school
May 2009	Technical course on birds and plants		PT, TR
June 2009	Exhibiting photos with the results of the trips and any ecological problems discovered		each partner school
June 2009	Celebrating World Environment Day through a school festivity : poems, plays and artistic works on ecological issues done by students ( Pop Art or Land Art)		ES, RO, LT, FR, LT
June 2009	Building a rain-water collecting system		FR
Sept2009 or May 2010	Field work to build up a list of the region’s biodiversity		PT, RO, TR, ES
Oct 2009	Finding out information about plants and the aria and how polluted they are. Study of the power plants for the production of electrical energy in our area and of their environmental effects		IT, RO, ES, IT, FR
Oct 2009	Practical course for teachers for promoting social skills		PT
Sept.2009-June 2010	Practical course “Choose natural products to have a safe life”		RO
Nov 2009	Project meeting to discuss the results of the first year and decide upon the second year	PT	each partner school
Nov.2009	Celebrating “The week of global education”		RO
Dec. 2009	Promoting citizenship by recycling paper		each partner school
Jan-Feb.2010	Writing projects about environmental problems ( water and soil pollution)		RO
January 2010	Making the bird nests and putting them into the school environment/building to protect the natural environment		TR, PT
January 2010	Project meeting for assessing the website proposal and for approving the rough questionnaires for evaluating the impact of the project upon students, teachers, parents and institutions involved on	SP	each partner school
March-April 2010	Growing a school garden		IT, PT, FR, TR, ES
March 2010	Teachers’ exchange	IT	each partner school
April 2010	Celebrating Earth Day : create products made of reused materials		RO, LT, TR, ES
May 2010	Exhibition of organic products and developing the habit of using organic products		TR, PT
May 2010	Writing a leaflet about sustainable development whichwill be shared withall students in school, parents, members of the community		each partner school
May 2010	Project meeting for evaluating the impact of the project upon students, teachers, institutions involved	TR	each partner school
May-June2010	Creating environment corners with the projects sent and received		each partner school

Interesting links

Comenius for school education

The Comenius programme focuses on the first phase of education, from pre-school and primary to secondary schools. It is relevant for all members of the education community: pupils, teachers, local authorities, parents’ associations, non-government organisations, teacher training institutes, universities and all other educational staff.

European Environment Agency

The European Environment Agency (EEA) is an agency of the European Union. Their task is to provide sound, independent information on the environment. They are a major information source for those involved in developing, adopting, implementing and evaluating environmental policy, and also the general public. Currently, the EEA has 32 member countries.