PARTNER ORGANISATIONS

Applicant Organisation:
Zespol Szkolno-Przedszkolny nr 1/ POLAND 

Zespół Szkolno-Przedszkolny is situated in a small city called Raciborz. Raciborz is in the south of Poland and we have only about 15 km to the Czech Republic. Our school is a primary school which also incorporates with a kindergarten. There are  187 students between  7 and 15 aged  and 38 staff. 95 children are in the kindergarten.  

Our school is small and everybody can feel here like in one big family. Children are learning new things with pleasure and thanks to it they are able to win a lot of competition. Students in our school are very eco-friendly  and  they know what it means. We are happy to have nature lessons, such as getting outside and enjoy nature.

We are also interested in new technologies, designs and innovations. In addition to caring for the intellectual sphere, by doing a lot of active tasks, we also take care of our well-being. We want to see how it works in other countries, replace experiences with other teachers.

PARTNER 1:
Educational Center for Environment and Sustainability of Karpenisi / GREECE

The Educational Center for Environment and Sustainability (ECES) of Karpenisi is an educational organization. It was founded in 2006 by the Greek Ministry of Education and it is one out of the 58 that operate today in Greece. Although it is an official public educational structure it is offering activities outside formal education and training that encourage, foster and facilitate students, teachers and  also people’s active participation in Environmental Education and Sustainability.

The actions develop about Education within the Environment with a focus on the natural and human environment with emphasis on the child-centered dimension of the teaching.

Our main activities are: 

1. To provide environmental education and education towards sustainability to the educational community by conducting dailies or multi dailies programs

2. To organize open seminars for Teachers and Public for Environmental Education and Awareness

3. To coordinate and support environmental networks

PARTNER 2:
SCOALA GIMNAZIALA OLTEA DOAMNA / ROMANIA

"Oltea Doamna" Secondary School is a point of reference in Oradea, with a rich historical tradition, that has just celebrated 100 years of existence. Located in the central area of the city, the school has changed over time its status from general school in girls' highschool and currently, it functions as a primary and lower secondary school. Its reputation has been strengthened by the generations of students it has formed, many of whom have become successful in various fields: science, literature, law, medicine, computer science. There are 1100 students, from 5 to 15 years old, who study in this school from the preparatory class to the 8th grade. The staff is composed of 65 teachers and technical staff.

The school has many international collaborations, through Erasmus projects, eTwinning, being a Microsoft and Cambridge school. The selection of the participants in this project was made according to the criterion of competence and also of the interest in the Environmental Education.

PARTNER 3:
IC Pontassieve / ITALY

It’s a comprehensive school: there are about 1900 pupils in total. 

The Institute’s different schools are located in different towns in the suburbs of Florence (Italy).  The students are from 3 to 14 years old.

There are 13 buildings situated in different towns and villages: 7 kindergartens; 5 primary schools and 1 secondary school. Pontassieve lies on two rivers: Sieve and Arno. The Middle School is in Pontassieve and there are about 600 students. In the Secondary School Maria Maltoni there are 23 group classes, the pupils are 11,12 13 and 14 year-old teenagers who mostly live in the nearby. The Middle School and Primary  teachers' team has specialized in students with special needs (SEN students) and students with disabilities. There are: science labs, extra afternoon foreign languages courses, sport activities, art labs.

Our school has also a musical focus :there are lots of different  musical workshops and laboratories and the children make up the school orchestra.

PARTNER 4:
Hamza Yerlikaya Ortaokulu / TURKEY

Hamza Yerlikaya Ortaokulu offers secondary education to the students in the age range of 10-14 in the middle Anatolian  city-Sivas. In our school there are 1 principal, 2 deputy principals, 42 teachers and 600 students. Our school is a newly-opened school in 2019. 

This new school gives secondary education since previous school building continues as primary school. Therefore our teachers and students in our previous school have started education in the new building.

Our school has refugee students from Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. In addition, we have students with special learning difficulties, low income, early school leaving risk, health problems and low academic achievement. Supportive and Inclusive activities are implemented for these disadvantaged students in our school. In Erasmus + and eTwinning projects, our students with fewer opportunities have priority as a target group.

PARTNER 5:
Sivas Dorteylul Ortaokulu / TURKEY

Dorteylul Secondary School offers secondary education to the students in the age range of 10-14 in Sivas/turkey. Our school aims to provide value based education with innovative teaching and learning methods.In our school there are 1 principal, 2 deputy principals, 43 teachers and 552 students.

Dorteylul Secondary School management wants to develop their skill of arranging Environmental Education activities in and out of the school .

Our teachers need to make regulation in their curriculum and lesson plans about Environmental Education and Climate Literacy of our students.

Our school has many national projects but it doesn’t have any international project. It is a newcomer school for Erasmus+ Programme.