Children’s educational risk prevention crisis package C.A.R.E.

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The proposed action is a common initiative between the two cross-border partners State Puppet Theatre-Vidin and Romanian Association for Technology Transfer and Innovation (ARRoT ) from Craiova. The project aims to improve cross-border public awareness in the field of efficient risk prevention and management through development of innovative educational toolkit and conducting wide promotional  campaign in the cross-border region. Specific objectives of the project are coherent to the overall objective of the programme, priority axis 3, as well to the main goal of the project. They are as follows: Increasing the effectiveness  and quality for risk prevention and management through improving  readiness and quality of preparation  at school and kindergarden through joint development of children’s  educational risk prevention package C.A.R. E and its dissemination among target groups in the cross-border region through targeted specific informational campaign.  Fostering the exchange of information and know-how on efficient risk prevention and management through establishment of sustainable cross-border C.A.R. E network for cooperation and development of web-based platform for exchanges of experience and knowledge on successful preparation of children  in crisis and emergency  situations.The common territorial challenges the project addresses  is to develop a neutral platform to  facilitate the process for raising awareness in the field of efficient risk prevention and management in the cross-border area through development and implementation of activities for children and adults, which directly increase the knowledge and stimulate the exchange of good practices for efficient  risk prevention from natural and anthropic disasters. The project tackels the main problem - lack of educational practical information and tools for  children and adults  how to create resilience behavior   in the child to survive in extreme environment- like   weather-related risks (such as storms, extreme temperature events, forest fires, droughts, floods) and geophysical risks (such as landslides, earthquakes) and those, caused by  anthropical influence. The project directly contributes to improving the current situation in terms of quality of risk management through  development of new    educational didactical  package  for common  and self-defence  for children aged 5th-12th years old during crisis situations. Programme outputs targeted by this call the  project contributes are relevant to  Priority axis 3 and  Specific objective. 3.1: Awareness raising campaigns for the cross-border population on the hazards and risk and on the measures for their mitigation, management, reduction and  exchanges of experiences. The project activities are designed to achieve Programme outputs and programme result indicators for priority axis 3 Safe region, specific objective Imroving the risk management in cross-border region. The project offers innovative approaches, new solutions to tackle the identified common challenges for securing adequate preliminary preparation for children aged 5th to 12th years old  to act in crisis situations, caused by natural and anthropic disasters and accidents. The innovative   resilient approach will be applied to the  joint development of Children’s  educational risk prevention package C.A.R. E and the massive rising awareness campaign with accent on preserving the psyche and overcoming fear of  using the means  of creativeness in development of innovative educational toolkit, which provides  unique opportunities for presenting the risk of disastars in an attractive and more  accessible way for children. The resilient approach, which  will be applied,  offers opportunities through creativeness and games children to be trained to accept the information and to  deal with the difficulties better than could be expected in rising awareness and understanding of safety rules for natural disaster. Incorporating the resilient approach and creativeness in design and development of educational tools will provide an environment for stimulating and develop the social skills of the child for communication, self-control, assertive behavior; support, help in overcoming difficulties, its own resilience to life and natural crises and critical situations. One of the major tasks  of the project activities is children to learn how to be more resilient to stress; to think logically; to understand what he or she perceives; to develop social feelings; - to show sympathy for people and animals in distress; - to trust others - to an adult in a critical situation; to rely on himself. The major challenge in the target region under the project and in the programme area is development of  new educational tools  for effective learning and preparation of children  at early age for possible disasters  and accidents. On the other hand ,improving the capacity of teachers and administration of education instituions for crisis situation, requires constant updating of information and development of modern didactical toolkit, which  will respond adequately to the higher expectations of children and their parents for improving  personal protection and safety techniques. The operation implies synergy approach , because the present project offers practical incorporation of the recommendations in a project “Safe School Network “(SSN) - 15.3.1.001, funded under INTERREG V-A Romania –Bulgaria Programme through development of joint cross-border educational C.A.R.E.package; Pilot testing of the produced educational tools through  demo- lessons ;Organization of specific public rising awarness campaign in the region through  promotion and introduction of the developed educational tools in the educational programmes.  1 Organization of 6 info days aimimg to rise awareness about natural and anthropic hazards for children and adults – parents, teachers. 2.Organization  of 8 performances in the target region. 3.Organization of cross-border conference,dedicated to the effective educational process for risk prevention from disastars and accidents. A joint promotional  network C.A.R.E will be established  to introduce the developed educational tools at school programmes. 4.Development of C.A.R.E web based platform, which will secure free access to the developed educational tools, as well opportunity for exchange of information. The designed cross –border activities correspond to tackling already identified specific cross-border problems and needs of target  groups and they will improve  joint risk management capacity of target groups for efficient risk prevention. That is why the project objectives can be efficiently reached only by cross border cooperation. The project target groups are : Children aged 5th to 12th years old 300,teachers, school directors-100, representatives of educational authorities 20, authorities for defense-15,parents-200.The total  indicative budget  is 300 000 euro.

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