SPEM

Title and acronym

SCHOOL PLASTIC FREE MOVEMENT (SPEM)

Programme and call

Erasmus+ Project KA3 – Support for Policy Reform 

Reference

621506-EPP-1-2020-1-IT-EPPKA3-IP-DOC-IN

Principal investigator

Ileana M. Greca

Project coordinator

Polo Europeo della Conoscenza (Italia)

Partners

• Universidad de Burgos (Spain, Espaa)
• Consejera de Educacin. Junta de Castilla y Len (Spain, Espaa)
• Panevezio rajono svietimo centras (Lithuania, Lituania)
• MAKE IT BETTER, Association for Innovation & Social Economy (Portugal)
• Ministry of National Education, Directorate General for EU and Foreign Relations (Turkey, Turqua)
• Zdruzenie Za Razvivanje I Digitalizacija Na Obrazovanieto I Ku - Friends Of Education (North Macedonia, Macedonia del Norte)

Overall project budget

 499.335  €

Contribution of the Funding agency

399.468  €

UBU´s budget

102.918,00  €

EC contribution

82.334,00 €

Project duration

43 months (01/01/2021 -14/07/2024)

Contact

imgreca@ubu.es

Project website

https://schoolplasticfreemovement.org/

Description

The project School Plastic freE Movement – SPEM - aims at developing and implementing, through the creation of a movement of schools and educational organizations, a new inclusive pedagogical model addressed to children from 5 to 13 years old, in particular to those at risk of marginalization and underachievement (migrant, disable, high potential and gifted pupils).

SPEM will develop a “Research Cluster” teamwork pedagogical strategy to support its model of inclusion with the purpose to make the students aware of their real possible future role in saving the planet. In fact, through the “Research Cluster” teamwork small groups of 5 pupils will have to study, invent, found, develop and if possible to create eco-friendly objects aimed at replacing permanently plastic in their schools’ environment and at home. The children will become aware of their role in saving the planet, in a small scale realistic simulation of a university research group, producing concrete results to be adopted.

SPEM will develop this educational strategy to prevent early school leaving and to improve the motivation to approach the studies of STEM subjects and the scientific careers as a paradigm and tool for a social change to a sustainable future.

To implement this inclusive model, the project foresees to train the teachers to make them able to facilitate the research project and to deconstruct the traditional lessons’ structure. The training, therefore, will be organized in 3 main areas:

a) Inclusion and attention to the specific target group of the project (gifted, disable and migrant students)

b) Scientific research towards a plastic-free environment

c) Promotion of teamwork in small scale research center simulation