Environmental Europe
Given the current situation concerning the COVID-19 health crisis that is hitting several European countries, among them those of which the partner schools of this project are representative, and the uncertainty associated to it for the forthcoming months, we feel prompted to inform our colleagues from our partner schools:
- Istituto Comprensivo Mazzarino (Italy)
- Scoala Gimnaziala Mihai Eminescu, Rosiorii de Vede (Romania)
- Jüri Gümnaasium (Estonia)
- Liemers College, Zevenaar (Netherlands)
- RSG ‘t Rijks, Bergen op Zoom (Netherlands)
that the exchange week at IES Sabinar, Roquetas de Mar (Spain) scheduled for 3 to 9 May 2020 is CANCELLED.
We will receive instructions by our National Agency in due time and expect to be able to carry out the planned activity in the first term of the next school year, provided that we are allowed to extend the project’s end date.
- On February 19, we carried out the first Coastal Inspection Day with all the teachers and student groups that signed up for the programme.
- Another trip was organised on March 2 for the younger student groups of 1º ESO E and 1º ESO F.
- The following day - March 3 - yet another Coastal Inspection was carried out in the Punta Entinas-Sabinar Natural Area with almost all Adult Education student groups and teachers.
On the Day of the Wetlands, February 2, some teachers and students went on a trip through the Ribera de la Algaida with Spanish NGO Ecologistas en Acción. We made taray stakes and planted tarays and sea parsley to restore an area near the Mirador de la Posidonia.
But this second term we carried out other activities that are relevant to our project:
- We signed up
for the “Give life to your batteries” campaign by Ecopilas,
to set
up a collection point for batteries
at the school. We also
distributed mini-containers to teachers.
- We started a school
vegetable garden
near the gym. We cleaned and marked the ground with
students from 1º ESO F.
- In March we got the electricity bills from the school secretary and began the study of the school's energy consumption in the face of a reduction plan for the coming years.
On Friday 8 November 2019, at Kalevi Spordihall in Tallinn, the Estonian Eco-School student group took part in the international Clean World Day conference, organised in collaboration with the Let’s Do It Foundation, who have mobilised 36 million positive-minded, action-orientated people in 169 countries.
On this day, our students had an opportunity to learn:
- How to become sustainable with the practical steps and tools and have impact on the quality of your life.
- Come and learn how to implement programmes based on the Clean Up Day experience.
- Discover the possibility of sustainable business and empower yourself to impact the policy-making as an active citizen.
Only two weeks after the last teachers meeting in Estonia, the fourth student exchange and conference was wonderfully hosted by Mihai Eminescu
Secondary School
in Rosiorii de Vede, Romania, during the second week of October.
| To organise the third and last project year, the partner school representatives met at Jüri Gümnaasium, Estonia, hosted by local coordinator Kristi Vimberg. The first ones to arrive were Lucia Costachescu and Elvira Untesu, from Scoala Gimnaziala Mihai Eminescu, who arrived on Saturday 21. On Sunday the rest of the representatives arrived: Ana García and Daniel Prados from IES Sabinar (Spain), Gerry Matthijssen from RSG ‘t Rijks (Netherlands), Suzanne Sassen and
Roberto Breeveld from Liemers College (Netherlands) and Rosalia Marotta from IC Mazzarino (Italy). On Monday morning we all met at the hotel lobby, readyto visit Reet Aus Showroom - http://www.reetaus.com/en - a recycled clothes shop in Tallinn which saves 75% water and 88% energy in the making process. Then we took a bus to the school, where we had our first coordination meeting to evaluate the project so far and plan year 3. We had lunch there and attended some school activities. In the afternoon we visited a Viking Village, where we had dinner - https://www.viikingitekyla.ee/en/ |
| On Tuesday the guest teachers were picked up at the hotel by a bus that took us all to the Ida-Viru country. There we visited the Estonia Mining Museum
in Kohtla-Järve - http://kaevandusmuuseum.ee/eng/
There we took a bus to Toila, where we had lunch and visited Toila park and Ontika limestone cliff: |
| On the last day of the programme in Estonia we went on a truck safari, bog hiking, rafting and picnic in North-Körvemaa. We put an end to such an adventurous day with a farewell dinner party at Kivi-Paber-Käärid, back in Tallinn - http://kivipaber.ee/ |
