Be smart - save money

Sunday 25 November 2012

8 Countries - nine schools working together.

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Silvia Bestgen31 January 2013 at 14:39
Dear Marled,my english is so bad, please translate me.
Hallo Ihr Lieben! Immer mehr Menschen können nichts Anderes als kaufen und wegwerfen.
Bei Kindern eine neue Saat legen und zu zeigen das es auch anders geht, ist wunderbar.
Villeicht tragen sie die Früchte dieser Saat nach Hause und geben Denkanstöße.
Macht bitte weiter so !
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Marled3 February 2013 at 00:48
Mach ich doch gern!
Silvia wrote:
Too many people know nothing more than buying and throwing away. To show children an alternative is really wonderful and rising awareness of alternatives is important. Maybe they carry the outcomes into their homes and help to spread the idea!
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The project

Nine primary schools from Bulgaria, England, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy (Varese), Italy (Sassari), Portugal, Slovenia will work together.

Aim of the project is

to advise (to educate, motivate and empower) the participants to a more responsible use of money,

to clarify financial backgrounds and transactions,

to throw light on consequences of unreflected use of financial and material resources,

to develop simple models of the private use of money (plans for daily expenses and savings),

to initiate an adequate attitude towards financial problems,

to rise awareness against advertisement and consumerism,

to waste less learning to reduce, reuse and recycle, in order to save energy, save scarce resources, reduce litter, save yourself money, conserve landfill void space and prevent valuable materials from being landfilled.

To realise these aims the participating schools will develop teaching units. Each country will develop one unit with a special focus and forward it to a pool from where the other countries will choose one or more in the second half of the project, test them in their own classes and add and/or improve something if necessary. This kind of approach makes it possible, amongst others, to visualise the European importance of the subject, but also to show the national differences, which are caused in different ways of life and different life conditions in each country.