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The "NaviNatur School Exchange" project, initiated by SCHUBZ - Centre for Environmental Education, promotes sustainability education through international collaboration between schools in Romania and Germany. Funded by the German Federal Foundation for the Environment, this program ran from January 2012 to July 2013, facilitating exchanges and innovative learning experiences that focus on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). Students engaged in GPS-education tours, workshops, and virtual meetings, fostering cross-cultural dialogue on sustainability practices.
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NaviNatur-School Exchange January 2012 – July 2013 Prof. AdnanaMihaelaPătrăşcoiu Şcoala Gimnazială Sfântu Gheorghe
Project title: „Discover and present sustainability in a transnational way and by new media: Education for a sustainable development (ESD) in a student exchange program with/through GPS-education tours between schools from Romania and Germany-Navinatur-School Exchange”
About the project: • Project initiator: SCHUBZ - Centre for Environmental Education (SCHUBZ) in Lüneburg; • Funding: “Deutsche BundesstiftungUmwelt“; (German Foundation for Environment) • Partner schools: • Haupt-undRealschuleSalzhausen, IGS Lüneburgand Secondary School from Sfântu Gheorghe, • Marion-Dönhoff-GymnasiumMöllnand Liceul Teoretic „Joseph Haltich“, Sighișoara.
Partners: • The Institute of Environmental Communication (INFU) of the Leuphana University Lüneburg, • Bucharest University, • The Biosphere Reserve Administration (BRV) Lower Saxon Elbe Valley, • The Danube Delta BiosphereReserveAdministration.
Howdidwebecomepartners? • February 2011 – we received, through DDBRA, the project proposal of SCHUBZ and expressed our cooperation interest; • May 2011 – we met personally at the school to discuss further details; • July 2011 - has been approved by the“Deutsche BundesstiftungUmwelt“ beginning with January 1st, 2012.
Howdidwebecomepartners? • March 2012 – first teachers training seminars, each two days long, in Sighişoara and in Tulcea; • 31 May – 8 June 2012, Sf. Gheorghe – first school exchange between Secondary School of Sf. Gheorghe and Haupt- und RealschuleSalzhausen and IGS Lüneburg; • 8 – 17 October 2012,Lüneburg/Salzausen- second school exchange between the three schools.
Activities: • working on the POIs– Points of Interest) which will be on the project site: www.navinatur.de; • introducing the topic of sustainable development in class; • students provide coaching to each other and reflect and develop their models based on cultural influences through the "twinning model“; • face-to-face meetings complemented by virtual and theoretical presentations; • communication by webpage, www.navinatur.de (multilingual) in Web 2.0 mode, and GPS and audio-, picture-, and text-based tools.