Eco-art is a great way to reduce the amount of waste. Some creativity and effort – and everyone can make something new and useful at home from materials they already have. The production process is also an excellent tool for environmental education. However, does eco-art always contribute to the preservation of the environment and our…
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On April 27-28, project partners met in Castelló, Spain for the 4th and final transnational project meeting. Project partners from Türkiye, Croatia, Spain, and Lithuania took part in productive discussions, setting up the handicrafts exhibition and planning the final steps till the project’s end date. The project partners set up an exhibition at the…
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As part of the project, each of the four partner organizations collected and presented 3 pieces of handicrafts that were created from waste. In total, 12 examples of handicrafts were collected and are presented in the training handbook. On the web-site we have prepared a digital exhibition of the handicrafts collected where you can learn…
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We are proud to announce that the training handbook created as part of the “Recycling of Waste with Handicrafts” project, co-funded under the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union, is now available! The handbook offers an insight into the environmental topics through an artistic lens. The first chapter of the handbook essential concepts vital to…
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On March 24, on the eve of Earth Hour, a conference “Environmental education: from theory to practice” was held at the representative office of the European Commission in Lithuania. During it, representatives of various organizations shared experiences and initiatives that contribute to rising awareness of students and adults and deepening their knowledge on climate change,…
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On December 1-2, project partners met in Čakovec, Croatia for the 3rd transnational project meeting. Project partners from Türkiye, Croatia, Spain, and Lithuania took part in productive discussions and planning of the future events. After the welcome speech made by Mario Zamuda, the principal of Pučko otvoreno učilište Čakovec, the project partners discussed the current…
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As part of the project activities, seminars for adults and children were held aimed at increasing environmental knowledge and raising awareness of environmental problems, solutions sought for these, environmentally friendly behaviors, environmental pollution caused by packaging, and ecological art examples presented. Each of the four project partners organized these seminars in their own country for…
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On September 22-23, project partners met in Vilnius, Lithuania for the 2nd transnational project meeting. Project partners from Türkiye, Lithuania, Spain, and Croatia worked together and delved into the experiences of environmental education. Vaiva Juškienė, Dean of the Faculty of Pedagogy, welcomed the participants of the project at Vilnius College. Afterwards, project partners shared insights…
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It is accepted that work and adult education practices in the eco-living and environmental awareness area are inadequate. This inadequacy is the result of the difference between “education for the environment” and “education about the environment”. It is clearly seen that with education about the environment, concepts of nature and environment that have been memorized…
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On May 17-18, the partners of the Erasmus+ project “Recycling of Waste with handicrafts” met in the city of Oltu, Türkiye. Partners from Türkiye, Spain, and Lithuania, joined by partners from Croatia via Zoom, held productive discussion about the project activities, their chronology, possible challenged, and a specific project implementation. The project partners also participated in the…
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