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Photogallery from the Exhibitions. Co-operation with IZOP Institute in Aachen In August DAPHNE was asked by Mr. Norbert Hilger from IZOP Institute in Aachen to host app. 20 German students from highschool in Dresden and 20 Slovak students from Gymnasium Vazovova in Bratislava. Students of both schools takes part in DBU supported project "Youth in Europe - Environmental Networking". Students were doing journalistic investigation and the topic for it was our DBU project: Environmental communication in school and villages of Lower Morava region. Students spent one day with us and became familiar with different aspects of our project. As a result they wrote 5 articles in Slovak that should have been published in daily newspaper "SME" in Slovakia and 5 articles in German that should have been published in Sächsische Zeitung in Germany. The visit took place on September 18, 2006.
Preparation and implementation of small environmental projects Based on the ideas that were presented during the school events, school project co-ordinators in co-operation with Daphne project team prepared small project proposals aimed at the improvement of some aspect of the school/village environment. The project proposals were written during April and beginning of May. Consequently the Agreement on co-operation in implementation of small environmental project was prepared and signed by a particular school and Daphne. During May and June and after summer holiday also during September, the schools were implementing the small projects with the help of other teachers, schoolmates, parents, local companies etc. However it has to be stressed that the substantial work was done by the school team together with other schoolmates under the guidance of teachers. The most important aspect and strong ground of the small projects is that the initiative for the environmental improvements comes from students and by mean of them also adults are involved in the particular environmental activities. The project sets a positive example of cooperation between the students, parents, teachers and citizens in order to achieve common goals.
Visit
of Daphne project team to Germany
May 19, 2006 we visited the Ecocentre Lindenhof in Bayreuth. Thanks for the great guidance to Dr. Thomas Kappauf.
During March presentations
of the survey results and the student's vision of the environment
were carried out. Presentations were organised as a school event at
schools. The school mates, teachers, parents, mayors and other citizens
of the town were invited. The dates of the presentations, times, and
schools are listed in the following table.
The presentations
had generally three parts. In the first part, the students presented
the results of their environmental survey using the poster they have
already made. Then they presented their vision of the environment they
wish to live in. The presentation was done as a radio forecast, or as
a mix of presentation and a theatre play or in another interesting way.
Second part of the presentation was the discussion. During the third
part the school team or the school co-ordinator presented the ideas
for the small environmental project and the ideas were discussed. Participants
were also asked to contribute to the small project in any possible way
depending on their possibilities. A third meeting of school team co-ordinators was held in the EcoCentre DAPHNE on February, 7, 2006. Each school co-ordinator brought completed project handbook summarising the school team work together with two posters that were prepared by a school team. The plan for the future activities of the project were presented and agreed.
During June and later from September until December every school team was conducting the survey of the school buildings, their surrounding area, and the village environment (months July and August are official school holiday, but some school teams had several meetings also during this time). The school co-ordinator was a leader of the research and helped students to solve the problems and answer the questions they had. The project handbook was very helpful in a sense of providing the guidance. Each school team was completing the activities in four areas - water, biodiversity, energy and waste and filling the project handbook. A second meeting of school team co-ordinators was held in the EcoCentre DAPHNE on September, 29, 2005. Altogether 13 participants from the schools of the Lower Morava region and the Slovakian project team were present. The school co-ordinators presented the results of the surveying the current state of the school/village environment, how the school team worked, what were the successes and what problems the team was facing. Each of them presented also own comments to our project handbook. Generally teachers were very enthusiastic and they concluded that also children were very eager to do all the activities.
By the end of June 2005, the second part of the educational programme (field work) was conducted with all school teams involved in the project. At the beginning of March (March 1 -March 2, 2005) the first project co-ordination meeting was held in Bratislava. The project team met to discuss the technical issues of the projects, internal communication within the project, plan of activities and financial provisions. An educational programme (Activity 1) about the Lower Morava region for the primary school students (age 11 - 15 years) was prepared. The programme has two parts. First - general part consist of theory presented to the students in a classroom. It is focused on actual environmental problems of the region and the ways of their possible solution. Second part is practical, held indoor and outdoor, and it is done only with the school teams involved in the project. This part of the educational programme is aimed at training the students how to use the project handbook. Starting at the beginning of April the first part of the programme has been held at 12 primary schools of Lower Morava region that are involved in the project.
Starting at the beginning of May, after the project handbook was printed out, the second part of the educational programme (field work) has been conducted gradually with project school teams of primary schools involved in the project. Outdoor program brings the opportunity for children to apply knowledge from theoretical part of the educational programme to practice. The outdoor programme is divided into 4 main steps: Step 1: Step 2: Step 3: Step 4: Following pictures are illustrating the activities of kids in individual settlements: Step
1: Introduction into research A project handbook for the schools (Activity 2) was prepared and printed at the end of April. A main aim of the project handbook is to explain the meaning of the project, steps that have to be undertaken, and to provide guidance for teachers and students to carry out the activities. This is black and white "testing" version of the handbook printed in 300 copies. The feedback of all target groups during the project implementation will be considered and finally, at the end of the project a final, improved version will be prepared. Content and structure of the handbook General information
about the project Surveying and
analysing the current state of the school/town environment - Guide to
Work Sheets Processing and
presentation of the results Preparing and
implementation of the small environmental projects A Workshop for directors and teachers of primary schools to DBU project was held in the EcoCentre DAPHNE on April, 20, 2005. Altogether 19 participants were present including the project team.
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