OTHER PROJECT EVENTS

Young Fashion Designer of the CR, Jihlava 2018

On 29th November 2018 we traditionally participated in the national competition in clothing production that is held in Jihlava every year. The pupils of the field of studies Leather Plastic and Rubber Processing created models to "Eco-clothes" (natural materials) and "Emotions" categories. This year 30 secondary schools from the CR, one school from Slovakia and one from Germany took part there. Mostly they were pupils of clothing and textile secondary schools, often with an artistic focus.In this big competition our pupils were successful and they deserve a great praise and appreciation for their work not only on the designing of the models but also during their presentation in front of the full theatre hall in DKO Jihlava.

PROJECT LOGO CONTEST 
December 2018 - March 2019

All partner schools announced the contest at their school and chose the best design created by their students. These were published on Facebook and school boards so that all students at all participating schools could vote the best one. After voting the winning logo was published on our Facebook group SAFNOT.

THE EARTH DAY 

22th April 2019 

At all partner schools the Earth Day was cebrated. We realized different activities to commemorate the need of our planet and environment caring. To show the awareness about it, students as well as teachers were dressed in chosen colours (e.g. white and green) and Earth Day badges, had special lectures, created posters and collected rubbish around schools to make better environment and plant new trees in their home towns.

22th April 2020 

LATVIA - Paper collecting campaign   04.03.2019 - 06.04.2019

SAFNOT team - students and teachers took part in the traditional old paper collecting campaign in Limbazi vidusskola. They collected more than 60 kg of old magazines, newspapers and cardboard which is going to be recycled and new paper will be made from it without cutting new trees.

LATVIA - World Water Day   22.03.2019

To celebrate World Water Day students from the SAFNOT team made posters where there was an invitation to carry reusable glass water bottles instead of regularly buying plastic ones so that the amount of plastic would be reduced. The posters were placed in every room at school so that the students and teachers could remember that we need to avoid plastic pollution in nature.

LATVIA - Recycling game for children  04.04.2019 - 05.04.2019

Students from SAFNOT team made a game about recycling for younger students in order to introduce them in a playful way to the necessity to recycle, what can be recyclable and what different colours on the bins mean. They went to the lessons for younger students, talked to the children, played the game and discussed their recycling habits at home.

LATVIA - What planet would you like to live on 22.04.2019 - 24.04.2019

In the English lessons, 8th-formers discussed our future on the planet Earth. What is it like now, can they be satisfied with pollution, dangers for birds, animals and fish and unhealthy conditions for the people? What could be done to improve the situation and to make others understand that we have to care about our planet otherwise we will not survive? The students made collages as a final product which were later displayed in the school hallways as informative material for other students.

LATVIA  - Preparing for the flashmob  06.05.2019 - 14.05.2019

The students from form 12 were presented with the idea to organise a flashmob on an environmental topic. They chose "Saving Trees". During the English lessons, they planned, wrote a scenario, divided roles and agreed on music, costumes, time of the day and a location. The students' aim was to pay Limbazi inhabitants' attention to the fact that trees as the main source of oxygen have to be taken care of, that forests cannot be cut down just because of money and to let the people understand how trees grow, what insects, animals and birds choose trees as their habitat and why they are so necessary to us. The students themselves are educated in the environmental field and with this flashmob, they wanted to pass their knowledge to the local people in order to make them realise that taking care of nature is everyone's responsibility. The students also wanted to remind us that by planting new trees we can make Latvia a green country. The flashmob took place during lunchtime next to Limbazi District Municipality house and one of the biggest shops in the town and the students had prepared posters with slogans 'For Greener Latvia', 'Grow and Save', 'More Trees', 'Don't Cut Down Because Of Money', 'Trees are alive', 'Trees also have a soul'.

LATVIA  - Preparing for the videoconference together with Romania  20.05.2019

Firstly, students from form 11 were given questions to think of while watching the film MAN by Steve Cutts. Then the students had a discussion about peoples selfishness and indifference towards our planet, about necessity to change our lifestyle and act responsibly in order to save the planet for the future generations. The most active students were chosen to participate in the videoconference.

LATVIA  - Forest Day   24.05.2019

SAFNOT team went on a trip to "Forest Day" - the biggest event in the Baltics where they took part in different workshops and exhibitions to learn about the ecosystem, how to plant and take care of a forest, what trees can give us and various opportunities to use wood. The participants also gathered ideas for the mobility "You Can Save a Tree" in autumn in Limbazi.

VIDEOCONFERENCES BETWEEN PARTNER SCHOOLS 

May 2019

In May all partner schools participated in videoconferences during which students discussed problems of recycling in their country and other ecological problems and tried to find solutions to them. Latvia - Romania, Czech Republic - Turkey, Bulgaria - Turkey

LATVIA - Implementation of the lesson plan "Musical Instruments From Recyclable Materials" inspired by mobility in Zlin.  30.10.2019

The main aim of the lesson was to make the students aware of a creative way of using recycled materials. Students from form 4 were presented with the idea to make simple musical instruments, such as shakers, drums, pipes, etc., without buying expensive materials but using different recyclable things - paper rolls, strings, tapes, plastic, metal, etc. They also brought their own materials, divided into groups and made instruments. After that, they agreed on the song to celebrate Halloween, practised it using self-made instruments and then performed it in front of the class.

LATVIA - Implementation of the lesson plan "Math in the Forest" inspired by mobility in Limbazi  02.11.2019

Students from form 11 had a Math lesson in the park next to the school. They worked in pairs, measured the trees and using their knowledge of Math formulas did as many calculations as they could about the height, size, etc of the trees.

BULGARIA - Implementation of a lesson plan, created by the Bulgarian "Upcycling: Making new out of old" 29th October 2019

 The aim of the lesson was the students to understand and be able to use the process of transforming by-products, waste materials, useless, or unwanted products into new materials or products of better quality and environmental value and to be able to make the difference between upcycling and downcycling.The students were devided in teams and involved in a small activity where they had to create a plan for upcycling a specific category of product: Art, Food, Clothes and Furniture. The teams have presented their ideas to the class.

BULGARIA - International Black Sea Day 31 October 2019

 The Bulgarian students marked the International Black Sea Day which is annualy celebrated by 16 million people - the people from 6 countries who live along the Black Sea coast.On this day in 1996, the Strategic Plan for the Black Sea was signed. The governments of the Black Sea countries agreed that the pollution of our common sea creates risks for all border countries. In Istanbul, an agreement was signed at a meeting of the Ministers of Environment of Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine and the public's attention was drawn to the efforts needed to save it.The students from Bulgaria were involved in a lesson named SAVE THE BLACK SEA conducted by three teachers. The aims of the activities during the lesson were to raise awareness among the young people about the polution problems and the actions required to be taken in order to save the sea from it's further environmental degradation.

LATVIA -  A contest of gift wrapping   19.12.2019

Several tonnes of wrapping material are consumed every year during Christmas and New Year celebrations. Wrapping paper isn't often recyclable, so for this year's holidays 2 students from SAFNOT team - Elina and Una - took part in a contest about gift wrapping. They had to come up with an alternative for wrapping paper using reusable or more eco-friendly materials. The best gift wrapping ideas would be displayed in an exhibition in Riga. Elina created a gift bag from old curtains and Una made 2 bags out of jumper sleeves. When the contest closed, Una's gift bags were chosen for the exhibition, but both of our students received invitations for the opening ceremony of this exhibition.

ROMANIA - Happy Halloween! 12th November 2019

Mihail Kogălniceanu Economic College students have organized an exhibition and they have decorated pumpkins using recycling materials! 

ROMANIA - dissemination of 3rd mobility in Latvia 14th November 2019

The three students participating in the 3rd Learning Mobility with Students that took place in Latvia, in October, shared their experience to others students in Mihail Kogălniceanu Economic College. 

FLASHMOBS    May 2019 - June 2020

Each school prepared flashmobs in some public spaces to make problems of recycling visible and to point out the importance of dealing with it.

• LATVIA

Students from Limbazi Secondary School no 3 class 12 organised a flashmob 'Save The Trees'. The author of its idea was Alekss Puriņš. The students' aim was to pay Limbazi inhabitants' attention to the fact that trees as the main source of oxygen have to be taken care of, that forests cannot be cut down just because of money and to let the people understand how trees grow, what insects, animals and birds choose trees as their habitat and why they are so necessary to us. The students themselves are educated in environmental field and with this flasmob they wanted to pass their knowledge to the local people in order to make them realise that taking care of nature is everyone's responsibility. The students also wanted to remind that by planting new trees we can make Latvia a green country. 

• CZECH REPUBLIC

Students of SPŠP-COP Zlín prepared short rap slogans promoting our project during International Film Festival for Children and Youth. It took place in city park where a lot of festival activities take place.

• ROMANIA

• BULGARIA

The team of students responsible for the flashmob invite passing people to take part by explaining the aim and asking them to try and make a suggestion about the decomposing time of the garbage types displayed on a poster. The participants were very astonished to find out that thousands of years are needed for some of the waste materials to be decomposed. In general all the participants (students, teachers, parents and other passersby) from different ages and occupations at the end come to the conclusion that we should reduce consumption of products that generate waste materials that take long time in landfills to get completely decomposed

• TURKEY

TURKEY - "Designing and Marketing a Recycled Material for Decoration" 17th September 2019

Implementation of a lesson plan, which was created by Turkish team inspiring the workshops done in Bulgaria and Czechia, is one of the dissemination activity of SAFNOT. It was very enjoyable to implement "Designing and Marketing a Recycled Material for Decoration" plan. Students created a decoration material and took some steps to sell it. They planned all activity on an activity paper prepared by the teachers and presented their product to the classroom.

TURKEY - dissemination of 3rd mobility in Latvia  23rd October 2019

Sekvim Tekin Anadolu Lisesi organized a meeting in which SAFNOT team shared their experiences in Latvian mobility. At the meeting, the students told the teachers in the school what we did during the mobility, about Latvian culture and education system. 

ROMANIA - Making new notebooks from old ones  24th October 2019

Implementation of a lesson plan. This is an activity in partnership with another school, Elena Doamna Inclusive Education Center (with disabilities students but a modern typography), where our students made new notebooks using the paper from the old notebooks. The book covers contain the data of our Erasmus + project,SAVE THE FUTURE NOT ONLY TODAY. The new notebooks were offered to students with limited material possibilities

GLOBAL EDUCATION WEEK - ROMANIA
18th -22th November 2019 

The climate change is one of the biggest threats to the environment, especially to the social and economic environment. In order to raise awareness about this issue , the students and teachers of Mihail Kogălniceanu Economic College have prepared a session with reports and essays in the context of GLOBAL EDUCATION WEEK which has as its main theme this year- The climate Changes,and have also organized an exhibition and a large paper collection activity in partnership with ECO-X Petresti.

ERASMUS DAYS
10th - 11th October 2019

• BULGARIA

Students and teachers celebrated Erasmus Days by sharing their experience from the SAFNOT mobility in Latvia among the school society.

• TURKEY

• ROMANIA

The students of Mihail Kogalniceanu College celebrated Erasmus Days by decorating the entrance of the school with flowers.

ROMANIA - "Eco-Bookmarks" workshop December 2019

The students of Mihail Kogalniceanu College organized a workshop-"Eco-Bookmarks". They also organized an exhibition in the school with eco-cards and a Christmas Tree made of eco-bookmarks.

LATVIA - ECO GIFT WRAPPING CONTEST 19th December 2019

Several tonnes of wrapping material are consumed every year during Christmas and New Year celebrations. Wrapping paper isn't often recyclable, so for this year's holidays 2 of Latvian students from Erasmus Plus project SAFNOT - Elina and Una - took part in a contest about gift wrapping. They had to come up with an alternative for wrapping paper using reusable or more eco-friendly materials. The best gift wrapping ideas would be displayed in an exhibition in Riga. Elina created a gift bag from old curtains and Una made 2 bags out of jumper sleeves.When the contest closed, Una's gift bags were chosen for the exhibition, but both of our students received invitations for the opening ceremony of this exhibition.

CZECHIA - implemetantion of a lesson plan "Making Christmas Decorations from Recycled Materials" 21th December 2019

SPŠP-COP Zlín invited volunteers from their school to take part in a Christmas workshop where they could make their own christmas decorations. At fist they were asked some questions about recycling in general and then they worked in groups and did quiz about disintegrating times of different materials. After that they started creating their own decorations. 

ROMANIA - At home I am creative! 10th May 2020

The students of Mihail Kogalniceanu College prepared a material about Recycling, Reusing and Repurposing Plastic Items and designed various plastic objects. 

LATVIA - A Bike - to - School Week  28.09.2020 - 02.10.2020

This week special attention was paid to those who ride bikes to school to encourage a healthy lifestyle and cycling in order to reduce car emissions in the town, especially in the school area because too many parents take their children to school even if they live quite close to it. Posters and discussions made the students aware of air pollution and its consequences on peoples health as well as the physical benefits of cycling.

LATVIA -  Lessons on the topic "Water"   14.04.2021 - 21.04.2021

The students from form 10 had several lessons where they discussed the importance and necessity of water in peoples lives, its qualities from scientific aspect, different facts about water, shortage of clean drinking water in the world and what can be done in order to improve the situation. People should rethink their water using habits to fight the problem with water because everyone in the world has rights to clean water every day.

BOLGARIA - National competition organized by the National Statistical Institute.

As part of the global world, we live in the conditions of social, economic and environmental problems and in this regard, social responsibility is of special importance. A prevalent issue in today's society is people's social consciousness and the tendency to overlook their own contributions to a problem.
The aim of this research is to bring awareness to personal social responsibility and to find out the extent to which we are accountable for the wellbeing of our community and environment.
The decisions we make and the actions we take today will reflect on future generations. It's about our personal behavior as citizens, consumers, workers, neighbors or family members. We hope to show how each one of us is able to make a change. After all, a puzzle cannot be put together without all the pieces.

EARTH DAY 22th April 2021

• BULGARIA 

Students of Rayko Tsonchev High School cleaned the garden in front of the school building and planted some flowers.   

• TURKEY

Sevim Tekin Anatolian High School students prepared this video for 22nd April Earth Day. Even if we are not together because of pandemic, it is good to remember old celebrations.

 https://www.facebook.com/odoygun/videos/10159282818448777  

• ROMANIA

Thanks to our collegue, Alina Seceleanu, who has coordinator of the students of our college who had prepared some pictures and an exhibition to celebrate Earth Day, on 22nd April 2021! Even they have online classes... 

TURKEY - implementation of a lesson plan - online lesson 30th April

Implementation of a lesson plan by Turkish teachers and students.  

VIDEOLESSON TURKEY - BULGARIA, 26th May 2021

In this online class, the students presented their research on Alternative Energy Sources; Wind, Solar, Water and Geothermal. They also applied the online quizzes about these presentations via Kahoot and Quizizz. The whole event took place in two sessions. Thus, our students developed their awareness about the importance of recycle.  

 International Children's Day ROMANIA, 1st June 2020

The Romanian students have organized the Erasmus + activity "Planting trees and save nature"! 

LATVIA - Beach tidying campaign and summary of the project  16.06.2021

10-formers went on hiking along the sea, examined the tree trunks washed out of the sea and collected waste from the beach in the area of 4 km. After that they had sports games, received certificates from the virtual mobility of Turkey and discussed the results of the project.

ONLINE LESSONS CZECHIA - LATVIA, 27th May 2021 + CZECHIA - ROMANIA, 17th June 2021 

During the lesson the students filled in a short questionnaire and listened to a podcast about water consumption. Then they reacted to the new information from listening activity. After that they worked in five groups (2 Czech, 2 Latvian students) in application gathertown to disscuss their own results of waterfootprint calculator which they had prepared beforehand. At the end of the lesson they watched a short video with the song Protect the Water.

Videoconference 28th May 2021

Project coordinators were planning Romanian virtual mobility.

Implementation of SAFNOT lesson plans at primary school ZŠ Velký Ořechov, CZECHIA  June 2021

Pupils fulfilled tasks related to decomposing time of certain materials, water/carbon footprints and then they created toys and pencil holders from waste material. 

Dissemination of the project + implemetation of SAFNOT lesson plans at primary school ZŠ Slovenská, Zlín, CZECHIA June 2021

Pupils watched the dissemination video, then they fulfilled tasks related to decomposing time of certain materials, water/carbon footprints and after that they created toys from waste material. 

Dissemination of the project + implemetation of SAFNOT lesson plans at primary school ZŠ Slovenská, Zlín, CZECHIA June 2021

Dissemination of project SAFNOT inspired girls at primary school Velký Ořechov and they decided to sew pencil cases and mobile phone cases from old jeans.  

Cleaning the woods behind the school - joining activity "Let's Clean Czechia"  CZECHIA, 28th June 2021

TURKEY - DISSEMINATION

They held their dissemination as an online meeting on 30th June 2021 via Zoom. This meeting was attended by students, parents, teachers and administrators both of their school and other schools. Our project was introduced with its whole activities. One of the students who is in the project team and experienced physical mobility talked about her experience.  

CZECH REPUBLIC - DISSEMINATION

Dissemination of the project took place in 7 primary schools: Zlín - ZŠ Slovenská, ZŠ Mikoláše Alše, ZŠ Církevní, ZŠ Štefánikova; Otrokovice - ZŠ Mánesova; Vsetín - ZŠ Trávníky; ZŠ Velký Ořechov and 5 secondary schools: Zlín - SPŠP-COP; Valašské Meziříčí - SPŠ stavební, Kroměříž - SŠ hotelová, Otrokovice - SPŠ, SLOVENSKO Svit SOŠP. 1 870 pupils and 154 teachers watched dissemination video and then they fulfilled tasks related to decomposing time of certain materials and water/carbon footprints.

ROMANIA -  project dissemination  5th to 8th July 2021

Erasmus + project disseminationFrom 5th to 8th July 2021, "Mihail Kogălniceanu" Economic College has disseminated the results of the activities from the project SAVE THE FUTURE NOT ONLY TODAY to students and teachers from 4 other high schools in Focșani:• "Elena Doamna" Inclusive Education Center• "Ion Mincu" Technical College• "Valeriu D. Cotea" Technical College• NGO Renato AssociationThe students have presented the activities they took part in during the mobilities, they have distributed leaflets, flyers, they have designed materials. The formal end of the project took place in a festive place, where the participants were awarded. 

CZECHIA- project dissemination 15th July 2021

International dissemination of SAFNOT project in Istanbul among 17 teachers from 3 countries (Turkey, Lithuania, Romania) and 8 schools. 

LATVIA - project dissemination 26th August 2021

On August 26th in the regional English language teachers' meeting Sandra Rituma told about the project Save the Future not Only Today (SAFNOT) and informed the participants about its aims, activities and results. Information was heard by 16 teachers who represent Salacgrīva Secondary school, Aloja Secondary school, Limbazi district gymnasium and 7 elementary schools in Limbazi region and Mazsalaca Secondary school and Ledurga elementary school in the neighbour regions. 

TURKEY 13th September 2021

We presented carbon foot print in other classes in English lessons. We conveyed what the carbonfootprint is, what affects it, how to calculate it and how to reduce an individuals rate.

This enabled us to spread the results of our Project to the other students and teachers inside the institution and also to contribute to the awareness about protecting the Earth. 

TURKEY 23th September 2021 

Sevim Tekin Anatolian High School Project team , visited a nearby primary school aged 8-9 and shared dissemination materilas of the Project. Also, the pupils were informed about the subject of the Project; recycle and save the planet. It was a very effective interaction event, which enabled us to raise consiousness about recycle.

BULGARIA Final dissemination activities June - September 2021

A video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMaSgdHgSn8&t=54s containing photos and information about the conducted activities and mobilities in the frame of the Save the future not only today project was created.

The video was uploaded on the SAFNOT YouTube channel and shared through social media.

The project results and the video were shared during different meetings and events at the school as parents' meetings, meetings with teachers from ours and other schools from Dobrich, in front of students and others.

The students who took part in the project also shared experiences among their peers.

Flyers with photos of every mobility were created and placed on the project board at school.