ENVI-MOBILE: A PROJECT FOR ICT INTEGRATION INTO ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION IN EUROPE

Five educative organizations from Slovakia, Czech Republic, Italy and Spain are cooperating since November 2014 on promoting an educational methodology aiming to develop 45 min lessons for 10 -15 years old students and their teachers plus a mobile database of exercises focused on integration of environmental education into learning processes. Its aims are to bring more innovative activities into environmental education through using Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and increase the interest and participation of local people in their communities' life and related environmental issues. Primary and secondary school teachers are being provided with relevant and innovative teaching and learning materials focused on environmental education, combining general subjects and foreign language teaching (CLIL) during three international workshops. Pedagogical materials are being designed to integrate cross - subject environmental education concepts into the teaching process. Expected Project outcomes are 50 pedagogical materials ready to use and database of 500 interactive exercises aimed to improve key competencies of key educational target groups in science, technology and support of digital skills. This project carried out a needs analysis to identify key areas of environmental education finding at least 7 main topics and 50 related key themes for all 5 countries. Envi-mobile will end by August 2016, improving people's understanding of the necessity of environmental protection through innovative teaching and learning, while enhancing their capacity for being engaged in environmental decisions implemented on the local level. Also, project will contribute to enhancing international dimension of education and training through promotion of mobility and cooperation between targeted countries, supporting their capacity building in the area of environmental education. Overall, Envi-mobile will offer to EU educational community a valuable Open Access Teaching Resource: a Database of exercises for environmental education and teaching materials in 5 different EU languages.