Teaching green. Ideas for student research projects.

Environmental education in Slovakia, and also in other European countries, doesn`t comply with its elementary mission and it`s more symbolical or theoretical than practical or real (Zborník, 2018). Teachers in secondary schools should implement environmental education into daily education of general subjects, though they might be missing relevant skills, knowledge or, more often, motivation for environmental education. Therefore there is an urgent need for the appropriate training programme and teaching materials for teachers in practice aimed at practical environmental education and its implementation into schools, to strengthen their skills and competences and to gain the knowledge about environmental issues. The answer to this need is the ERASMUS + project "BIOPROFILES - Implementation of practical environmental education in schools". The project involves 6 partners active in the area of environmental education from 4 countries, Slovakia (INAK, Strom zivota, Constantine the Philosopher University), Italy (CNR-IBE), Spain (VITA XXI) and United Kingdom (Learning through Landscapes). It focuses on the development of innovative materials for practical environmental education for the target group of teachers and students aged 10 - 15 years, leading them towards increased interest in local communities' life.