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TrEE

Teaching recycling and Environmental Education

Newsletter 3

June 2015

TrEE Newsletter 3

TrEE Newsletter 3 presents the transnational meetings, the activities

performed in the second year of the project, and the main results of TrEE

– Teaching recycling and Environmental Education, promoted by:

Ulixes scs (IT) - coordinator

Association "Social center Burgas" (BG)

The Environmental Academy Ltd (UK)

MONTE, Desenvolvimento Alentejo Central ACE (PT)

Scoala cu calsele I-VIII ”Nicolae Velea”Cepari (RO)

NORTH MATRA ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ASSOCIATION (HU)

Syddansk Erhvervsskole (DK)

Malatya Province Directorate of National Education (TR)

Index

Our project ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………2

Activities performed in the partners countries in the second year 3

Partners meetings 11

Tree Results 14

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Our project Considering the emerging trends on environmental education, training and

testing recycling and reusing are one of the key factor to create a virtuous

circle good practices between operators from different countries, in

order to create a environmental education program which is flexible and

shared for new generations.

The TrEE project aimed to develop a European network of trainers,

teachers and operators of environmental education and recycling methods,

who have searched, selected and experienced tools for efficient training.

The partnership have realized an exchange of experiences and opportunities

through transnational meetings, attended by staff and learners, a network of

local museums of recycling created by artifacts realized in each country

thanks to local activities, a set of photos produced to create tools for sharing

and training in recycle methods, in order to improve the implementation of

programs in environmental education.

Partners realized an initial phase of study and analysis of national policies

on the environment and teaching methods and/or projects and laboratories

just realized, and made a selection of the most innovative and effective

practices.

In each country Partners have implemented local activities and workshops,

involving trainers, teachers and trainees, on recycling, reuse, waste

separation, etc., and have realized a photos collection to disseminate these

experiences of environmental education.

Our partner institutions have different experiences on a wide range of

activities, involving different learner groups and target groups, as different

backgrounds. One common point for our learners was the need to satisfy

their curiousity and professional training needs about the efficacy of policies,

strategies as of specific programs and activities to promote, at different

levels, active effects on environmental education and sustainable

development. Each Partner have also organize a local exibition as part of

an European festival of recycled products, and a final event, to deliver the

results of the project and realize the final show and book“ The little

mermaid and the sea full of waste” realized Recycling Materials.

The project was also an exciting international experience for the participants

who gained a wider perspective of education, experienced mobility,

international dialogue and an European dimension of a specific sector of

adult education.

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Activities performed in the partners

countries in the second year

Bulgaria

Lecture about the theme: "European union, what it is, how it works.

Water: organic resource in Europe”, by a trainee, in Association “Social

Center Burgas”

Lecture about the theme: Black Sea - Let Us Know More About It and

Lets Help It” in a creative workshop for people with disabilities.

Lecture about the theme: “Types of inhabitants of The Black Sea -

Fishes, Plants and Birds’’, for people with desabilities.

Meeting and conversation with representatives of the Executive Agency

for Fishers and Aquaculture of Burgas;

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Denmark

• Open House Event – Students presented their work about recycling and environmental education

• Project “Resources” and “Energy from waste” – The students had to examine what kind of waste each department at the school had and

how they handled the waste • Project “Sustainable Energy” – The students worked with a lot of

different sustainable energy sources and how it was used in different places.

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Hungary

Session with stakeholders about environmental problems and

presentation of the project.

Translation of the EVALUATION OF THE LOCAL ACTIVITIES AND

OUTPUTS questionnaire and application.

Organization of the activity “Clean Our City”.

Exhibition “Products from Waste”.

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Italy

• Ulixes are working with school, students and teachers, in the

preparation of a dramatic performance to be presented in the last

meeting of the project, in June.

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Portugal

• Participation in the 4th Meeting in Malatya, Turkey • Two Sessions of Environmental Education

• Recycling and residual management importance in the defence of habitats

• Exhibition of film “HOME” • Art and Objects with Recycled Materials and Cork

• Visit of Students to a Cork Factory

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Romania

Disseminations Meetings TrEE Grundtvig Project;

Exhibition with Trinkets/martisoare and postcards made of recyclables

products;

Online movie – “trinkets/martisoare and post cards made of recyclable

products.

Exhibitions with ornaments and postcards made of recyclable

products for Easter;

Online movie - “Ornaments and postcards made of recyclable

products for Easter

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Turkey

Organization of the 4th Meeting in Malatya

Dissemination of the activities and outputs in the media

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United Kingdom

Participation on the 4th Meeting in Malatya, Turkey

Resource Efficiency in Construction Workshop – Event focussed on

Resource Efficiency and Waste Minimisation and particularly on WRAPs

(Waste and Resource Action Programme) vision for 2020.

Organized a “Festival of Recycling” workshop at the North East

Recycling Forum (NERF)

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TRANSNATIONAL MEETINGS

1 meeting –

28/31 October 2013, Bitonto

(IT)

Kick-off meeting of

TrEE projects

2 meeting 7/10 April 2014,

New Castle (GB) Country Research

Presentations

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3 meeting 1/4

July 2014,

Burgas (BG)

Selected Best

Practices

Presentation

4meeting

13/16 October 2014,

Malatya (TK)

Local Exhibitions

first stage Report

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5 meeting – 20/23 April 2015,

Evora (PT)

Local Exhibitions second

stage Report

6 meeting,

3/5 June 2015, Bitonto (IT)

Final event

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Tree Results

Whole partnership had a European cooperation team, and the learning

opportunities and experiences offered both our learners and to those within the partner organisations, created an opportunity to continue

and improve relations on cooperation between our institutions.

The partnership gave the project the opportunity to analyze, discuss

and compare among experts coming from different contexts, and gave an European dimension to the issues of environmental

education recycling and reusing in the dimension of sustainable

development.

The final outputs are good resources for implementation of non

formal and informal trainings on recycling and reusing in all of Europe.

The end users of the project will have a chance to use produced training experiences, training materials and tools in their own

training activities.

Therefore, these will be good resources for the end users or

stakeholders of the project in Europe.