The effect of Children on Consumption and Sustainable Consumption Training

The project started in October 2015 and lasted  until October 2016. The coordinating country is Turkey represented by the Military High School Maltepe Askeri Lisesi Komutanligi in Izmir. Portugal is represented by Forave, High School in Lousado, Croatia by Gimnazija Gospic High School in Gospic and Romania by the Technical College of Architecture in Bucharest.

The project is a KA 2 project belonging to the category of strategic partnership among schools and its frame-object is cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practice. The main focus is the education of young people as regards responsibility for consumption of water, food energy and time. The specific objectives are the decrease of water and electricity consumption, the education for rational consumption of food and time, and the efficient use of the recycle system. The general objectives concern raising awareness of concepts such as European citizenship and democracy.

Italy was the second mobility after Croatia, in this meeting all the  participants were invited to watch the videos about “sustainable consumption” which had been created and filmed by the students of each school partner. The topics of the drama activities had been decided in the previous meeting in Croatia: Turkey – Shopping Madness, Portugal – Food, Italy – Saving Money and Energy, Romania – Recycling and Reutilization, Croatia –Budget Planning.

The work done by the school partners will be shared: the curriculum for the following school year 2016/17, the survey about consumption and the  questionnaire on European consciousness.

Project team: Edita Klobucar (koordinator), Anton Orzes (koordinator), Ivana Tomljenović, Amneris Anna Diminić, Leonarda Krajtner Ružička i Tihana Valentić