Tree project newsletter 3

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TrEE
Teaching recycling and Environmental Education
Newsletter 3
June 2015
TrEE Newsletter 3
TrEE Newsletter 3 presents the transnational meetings, the activities
performed in the second year of the project, and the main results of TrEE
– Teaching recycling and Environmental Education, promoted by:
 Ulixes scs (IT) - coordinator
 Association "Social center Burgas" (BG)
 The Environmental Academy Ltd (UK)
 MONTE, Desenvolvimento Alentejo Central ACE (PT)
 Scoala cu calsele I-VIII ”Nicolae Velea”Cepari (RO)
 NORTH MATRA ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ASSOCIATION (HU)
 Syddansk Erhvervsskole (DK)
 Malatya Province Directorate of National Education (TR)
Index
Our project ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………2
Activities performed in the partners countries in the second year 3
Partners meetings 11
Tree Results 14

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Our project
Considering the emerging trends on environmental education, training and
testing recycling and reusing are one of the key factor to create a virtuous
circle good practices between operators from different countries, in
order to create a environmental education program which is flexible and
shared for new generations.
The TrEE project aimed to develop a European network of trainers,
teachers and operators of environmental education and recycling methods,
who have searched, selected and experienced tools for efficient training.
The partnership have realized an exchange of experiences and opportunities
through transnational meetings, attended by staff and learners, a network of
local museums of recycling created by artifacts realized in each country
thanks to local activities, a set of photos produced to create tools for sharing
and training in recycle methods, in order to improve the implementation of
programs in environmental education.
Partners realized an initial phase of study and analysis of national policies
on the environment and teaching methods and/or projects and laboratories
just realized, and made a selection of the most innovative and effective
practices.
In each country Partners have implemented local activities and workshops,
involving trainers, teachers and trainees, on recycling, reuse, waste
separation, etc., and have realized a photos collection to disseminate these
experiences of environmental education.
Our partner institutions have different experiences on a wide range of
activities, involving different learner groups and target groups, as different
backgrounds. One common point for our learners was the need to satisfy
their curiousity and professional training needs about the efficacy of policies,
strategies as of specific programs and activities to promote, at different
levels, active effects on environmental education and sustainable
development. Each Partner have also organize a local exibition as part of
an European festival of recycled products, and a final event, to deliver the
results of the project and realize the final show and book“ The little
mermaid and the sea full of waste” realized Recycling Materials.
The project was also an exciting international experience for the participants
who gained a wider perspective of education, experienced mobility,
international dialogue and an European dimension of a specific sector of
adult education.

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Activities performed in the partners
countries in the second year
Bulgaria
 Lecture about the theme: "European union, what it is, how it works.
Water: organic resource in Europe”, by a trainee, in Association “Social
Center Burgas”
 Lecture about the theme: Black Sea - Let Us Know More About It and
Lets Help It” in a creative workshop for people with disabilities.
 Lecture about the theme: “Types of inhabitants of The Black Sea -
Fishes, Plants and Birds’’, for people with desabilities.
 Meeting and conversation with representatives of the Executive Agency
for Fishers and Aquaculture of Burgas;

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Denmark
• Open House Event – Students presented their work about recycling
and environmental education
• Project “Resources” and “Energy from waste” – The students had to
examine what kind of waste each department at the school had and
how they handled the waste
• Project “Sustainable Energy” – The students worked with a lot of
different sustainable energy sources and how it was used in different
places.

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Hungary
 Session with stakeholders about environmental problems and
presentation of the project.
 Translation of the EVALUATION OF THE LOCAL ACTIVITIES AND
OUTPUTS questionnaire and application.
 Organization of the activity “Clean Our City”.
 Exhibition “Products from Waste”.
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Italy
• Ulixes are working with school, students and teachers, in the
preparation of a dramatic performance to be presented in the last
meeting of the project, in June.

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Portugal
• Participation in the 4th Meeting in Malatya, Turkey
• Two Sessions of Environmental Education
• Recycling and residual management importance in the defence of
habitats
• Exhibition of film “HOME”
• Art and Objects with Recycled Materials and Cork
• Visit of Students to a Cork Factory

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Romania
 Disseminations Meetings TrEE Grundtvig Project;
 Exhibition with Trinkets/martisoare and postcards made of recyclables
products;
 Online movie – “trinkets/martisoare and post cards made of recyclable
products.
 Exhibitions with ornaments and postcards made of recyclable
products for Easter;
 Online movie - “Ornaments and postcards made of recyclable
products for Easter

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Turkey
 Organization of the 4th Meeting in Malatya
 Dissemination of the activities and outputs in the media

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United Kingdom
 Participation on the 4th Meeting in Malatya, Turkey
 Resource Efficiency in Construction Workshop – Event focussed on
Resource Efficiency and Waste Minimisation and particularly on WRAPs
(Waste and Resource Action Programme) vision for 2020.
 Organized a “Festival of Recycling” workshop at the North East
Recycling Forum (NERF)

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TRANSNATIONAL MEETINGS
1 meeting –
28/31 October
2013, Bitonto
(IT)
Kick-off meeting of
TrEE projects
2 meeting
7/10 April 2014,
New Castle (GB)
Country Research
Presentations

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3 meeting
1/4
July 2014,
Burgas
(BG)
Selected Best
Practices
Presentation
4meeting
13/16
October 2014,
Malatya (TK)
Local Exhibitions
first stage Report

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5 meeting –
20/23 April 2015,
Evora (PT)
Local Exhibitions second
stage Report
6 meeting,
3/5 June 2015,
Bitonto (IT)
Final event

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Tree Results
Whole partnership had a European cooperation team, and the learning
opportunities and experiences offered both our learners and to those
within the partner organisations, created an opportunity to continue
and improve relations on cooperation between our institutions.
The partnership gave the project the opportunity to analyze, discuss
and compare among experts coming from different contexts,
and gave an European dimension to the issues of environmental
education recycling and reusing in the dimension of sustainable
development.
The final outputs are good resources for implementation of non
formal and informal trainings on recycling and reusing in all of
Europe.
The end users of the project will have a chance to use produced
training experiences, training materials and tools in their own
training activities.
Therefore, these will be good resources for the end users or
stakeholders of the project in Europe.