MICROPLASTICS – TOMORROW’S MACRO PROBLEM
ERASMUS+ Call 2021
Key Action: KA2 – Small Scale Projects
KA210-VET – Small-scale partnerships in vocational education and training
Project duration: 01.11.2021 – 01.05.2023
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Plastics have entered almost every part of our lives. As individuals in the general public, we may not even be aware of all plastics and other chemical substances we come into contact with on a daily basis. Microplastics have first been recognized as a possible health and environmental issue only a few years ago and have since been studied by many scientists all over the world and the threat they pose to nature and us is evident. Sadly, our lives have in recent years become bombarded with many other environmental issues and ecological disasters, meanwhile plastics surrounding us have been accumulating in the shape of microplastics in the deepest parts of our world and the deep impact it has already and may have in the future has barely made it into the news. This project would try to fill that knowledge gap at least in our youth and their teachers and later spread on to the public in the countries of participating partners.
With the help of this project, we would like to increase awareness about microplastics among young people, teachers, and educational institutions. We would like to offer the teachers some quality teaching material that may be used in schools as curricular or extracurricular teaching resources, and also to foster discussion on the topic in the general public.
- Dermol svetovanje d.o.o., Šmartno pri Litiji (Slovenia) (https://dermol.si/)
- Faculty of Environmental Protection, Velenje (Slovenia) (http://www.fvo.si/)
- Centre for Legal Informatics Studies – Taranto Observatory, Taranto (Italy) (https://csig-taranto.eu/)
The project focuses on four main objectives: understanding what microplastics are, how they enter our environments, what risks they pose to our environment and health & what are the ways of preventing future mass contamination with microplastics.
secondary vocational school students, high school students, secondary vocational and high school teachers.
- WEBINARS – Development and execution of webinars dedicated to spreading theoretical knowledge and general understanding of microplastic pollution and prevention (january-may 2022).
- ONLINE COURSES – Developing and availability of online courses on the topic of microplastics and pollution with many shareable digital media learning materials.
- DISSEMINATION EVENTS – Recruiting new participants and spreading the anti-microplastics pollution ideas to any newcomers.
- ‘FOR A FUTURE FREE OF MICROPLASTICS’ CONTEST – Encouragement of reflection among students and teachers by organising the contest ‘For a future free of microplastics’.
- Development of 5 online courses on microplastics serving as an awareness-raising media;
- Development of high-quality didactic materials and digital learning media;
- Activation of young future experts to identify innovative ideas on how to tackle the problem of microplastics;
- Promotion of the microplastics problems and problem-solving solutions in the context of education and training;
- Introduction of new learning approaches with a transfer of knowledge and good practices to education and training.
Webinar 4: 20.04.2022 at 16h (Zoom)
PLASTIC WASTE – OUR RESPONSIBILITY AND OPPORTUNITY
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Past events
Webinar 1: 19.01.2022 at 16h (Zoom)
FROM MACROPLASTICS TO MICROPLASTICS – let’s get close to them
Invitation
Webinar 2: 16.02.2022 at 16h (Zoom)
INTENTIONALLY ADDED MICROPLASTICS IN THE HOUSEHOLD
Invitation
Webinar 3: 16.03.2022 at 16h (Zoom)
MICROPLASTICS IN URBAN ENVIRONMENTS
Invitation