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In our project of Circular economy we are focusing on three subject: FOOD, WATER AND ENERGY and WASTE. We study these subject in the perspectives of the three R´s. How to live that we reduce, reuse and recycle more.

The First year reports

In the school year 20/21, we successfully applied for the prolonging of our international project of five European countries: Finland, Italy, Germany, Poland and Slovenia.

The project will last two and a half years, and we are from: Kokkola (Finland), which lies along the northern part of the Baltic Lake, the population speaks bilingual - Swedish and Finnish (we are expected to visit Kokkola in November or early December 2021 on the upcoming Biodiversity Day); from Berlin (Germany), the capital of Germany, the district of Lichtenberg (visit in March 2022 on the occasion of the Easter Festival and Water Day); from Warsaw (Poland), the capital of Poland, the school is located in Ursa County (a visit is planned in May 2022 at the Spring Festival and the upcoming Environmental Protection Day), from Piccaretta - Imbriani, Apuglia (Italy), the school is in a small historic town near Bari (visit will take place in April 2023 on Earth Day). In December 2022, at the New Year's Market, Slovenian school will host teachers and students from all five partner schools in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia.

In the school year 2020/2021 we plan:

- a five-day initial virtual meeting in Slovenia in December 2020 in cooperation with the Faculty of Organizational Sciences, Department of Cybernetics (Dr. Škrabo), and the Biotechnical Faculty (Dr. Lučko Kajfež Bogataj, recipient of the Nobel Prize in the group of scientists),

- four days of activities with activities of students from the field of circular economy,

- joint working meetings of students through the ZOOM platform with each of the partner schools separately,

- Workshops and education of students participating in the Circular Economy for a Future Society project.

In the coming years, we will carry out planned project activities to lay the foundations for comparing the principles of the circular economy in the school system and the school local environment in different countries. With the classes involved in the project, we will also carry out part of the lessons and experiments in the school curriculum on the topic of circular economics. We will work with the local community, presenting the project activities on the project website and starting with production of online materials by individual countries participating in the project. The online materials will eventually be collected in an online manual entitled 3R Economy: reduce, reuse, and recycle - Circular economy: reduce, reuse, and recycle, on the school website and on the main project website.

In the project we want to learn:

- how important and modern is the topic of environmental protection, the green economy and green industry,

- how to better manage waste by comparing waste management in five different countries,

- how to think and behave ecologically.

In addition to the contemporary theme, we expect plenty of additional experience while getting to know the partner countries, our peers and their culture.

Polish coordinator Aneta Kobosz

ITALIAN ACTIVITIES

  • Reuse workshop: the children made Christmas artifacts and decorations with material at their disposal.
  • Recycling workshop: in the school school caps were collected with which a work of art and giant flowers were made.
  • Meeting with Polish friends: virtual meeting in which the pupils had the opportunity to discuss.
  • Meeting with Finnish pupils: moment of discussion and conversation.

Due to the pandemic and the distance learning activities it was not possible to carry out other activities.

Germany

Report about our best posters, logos and workshops: Posters: Our students have chosen one product from a 3rd grader and two posters from 5th graders as our favourite posters. The students' pieces of art reflect on the natural climate of our earth. They also broach the issue of our interaction with nature and problems that we have to deal with as society now and in the future. The posters represent the philosophy of our project and will be displayed for everyone in the central stairway of our school. Workshops: Several re- and upcycling workshops have been put into practice during the past months. We have been re- and upcycling old paper, t-shirts, beverage boxes, wash detergent containers as well as plastic lids or cork to produce bird houses, guitars, toys, doll houses, shopping bags or other useful or artistic products. Five raised beds have been implemented in our schoolyard and we will arrange long-term gardening workshops with students from several class levels. The students will furthermore have the chance to transform our schoolyard in the context of another clean-up workshop before the holiday break. Logos: The products uploaded by our partner schools were very inspiring and motivated our students to contribute to the Erasmus-Project. The process of the creation of our best three logos was very diverse, depending on the methods used each schoolclass. Some students recycled old paper in order to create their logos while others generated mindmaps about our topic, focused on using symbolism representing the ideas of our 3RProject in order to provide a Logo, that represents all participating school from throughout Europe.

Finnish report

November 2020 May 2021

  • 9 meetings with participants
  • 4 Teams-meetings with partner schools (2 with Slovenia, one with Poland and Italy)
  • workshops in different school subjects related to the topic
  • informing on a new Instagram account and Lucina Hagman's official account (664 followers)

September 2020

  • workshops:
  • making of reusable masks with 7th grader boys ( about 50 students)
  • nature camp with focus on using natural materials (7th graders, 96 students)

November 2020

  • presentation of our project to interested students
  • as participants we have 4 teachers and 20 students
  • LTT Slovenia

December 2020

  • two LOGO and poster workshops with participants
  • workshop on reusing match boxes (biology course, 8th graders, 17 students)

January 2021

  • workshop: making of macramee lanterns with 7th grader boys, 50 students
  • DIY Save the Planet project with 9th graders (40 students)

February 2021

  • started new Eco friendly Lucina- teams with different responsabilities at waste management
  • 3 teams (1 teacher and 15 students)
  • responsabilities are: paper recycling, maintenance of recycling points and giving information about recycling on Instagram and school walls
  • planting of peppers and verbenas by using reused plastic boxes from home (biology course, 8th graders, 17 students)

March 2021

  • information campaign of Eco friendly facts at school (posters and Instagram)

April 2021

  • Making paper from old newspapers (9th graders, 40 students)
  • Teams meeting with Slovenia
  • Teams meeting with Poland

May 2021

  • Teams meeting with Italy