Let's do it! South Baltic school initiatives to stop climate change

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Local actors, especially in the school sector, are hesitating to join cross-border cooperation projects for the following reasons: lack of knowledge about management of EU funded projects, lack of personnel capacities & time to deal with EU projects, missing language skills & uncertainty about the personal capability to implement international activities. School teachers are often left alone with new ideas on informal learning methods & the workload when doing school projects. Since they often have to do such work voluntarily, only the highly committed teachers and schools carry out international activities. The challenge is to raise awareness & encourage school actors to start international cooperation projects on their own & set up routines for it. The project’s objective is to provide a test-ground for the participating schools & teaching staff to realize international pupils & teachers exchanges on the common topic climate change in order to: set-up long-lasting relations to other schools within the South Baltic area, to learn how to work internationally by doing it, to gain positive experiences from an intercultural dialogue & get routine in organizing international school projects. At the same time youngsters from smaller municipalities shall have the opportunity to get into an intercultural dialogue on climate change challenges & climate protection efforts with other youngsters from the South Baltic area. The most difficult challenge for climate protection is to raise awareness among citizens to change behaviors into a more sustainable lifestyle & to foster own initiatives. Voluntary initiatives are lacking of talents from younger generations. Environmental education must already begin in school to sensitize early for a climate-friendly behavior. School projects that make regular environmental education are rare. The project is aiming at permanently anchoring environmental education programs in schools through the implementation of pilot measures.

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