"The ALL Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership aimed at deepening the knowledge on marine environment and ecosystem, with a focus on the Adriatic basin and generally on the Mediterranean Sea, by studying its habitats and environmental characteristics, as well as the impacts and threats of anthropic activities. The project also raised participants' awareness of the tight connections linking the various ecosystem’s components and showed how human activity is increasingly affecting the marine dynamics. The project originated from the Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership NECST (2014-2017), led by the same coordination unit (including FEEM, CivicaMente, and Eni as an associated partner). In addition to the partners involved in the coordination unit, the project involved two highly-qualified scientific partners with educational experience (Fondazione Cetacea and Blue World Institute) and four upper secondary schools from three countries representing different shores of the Mediterranean basin: Gela and Ravenna (Italy), Zagreb (Croatia), and Limassol (Cyprus). In particular, the project involved 190 students from the four partner schools and their teachers (14 in total), who worked together in national and transnational groups to maximize the impacts of the cultural exchange envisaged by the project.Project activities have been carried out according to the most modern and participatory ICT-educational methodologies, such as Open Mind and Citizen Science. In fact, the aim has been to develop and experiment with an innovative learning approach using digital technologies. In fact, the project created an effective immersive learning environment, facilitated classroom discussion, stimulated shared reflection, and promoted the acquisition of new skills through activities mediated by digital technology. Also, Citizen Science approach was used to conduct dynamic field research with digital tools connected through the Platform and the smartphone App; it allowed schools to be actively involved in the project. Finally, the multimedia Platform created a learning environment where participants progressively discovered the project digital contents with the support of virtual areas to which students directly contributed to their work.The project produced several Intellectual Outputs, including 1) multimedia scientific contents and webinars on marine biodiversity; 2) the Platform and the smartphone App, connected through QR codes during a treasure hunt in the cities where the schools are located (Blue Hunt); 3) 40 e-books made by students, divided into transnational groups, on assigned research topics; 4) a digital journalism newsletter on the project activities.The main impact of the ALL project consists in the replicability of its methodology in other schools at the national and European level, as well as in other scientific fields. This entails that the ALL methodology is an effective modern learning experience and a ""best practice"" that may be complementary to traditional learning approaches. In the long term, this impact will result in a greater awareness of all direct and indirect participants, as well as in a widespread awareness of environmental issues concerning the marine ecosystem, its environmental peculiarities, and changes caused by anthropic activities."

Following the adoption of the Circular Economy Action Plan in 2015, the EU has promoted measures to stimulate the transition towards a circular economy. The adoption of the circular model may be an effective strategy to break the spiral of inefficiencies that seriously damages the natural, economic and social equilibriums of today’s world. In order to overcome the linear economy model in Europe (and beyond), it is necessary to adopt a re-education strategy in the context of a new economic model, where the axis buy-use-dispose-buy-again is disrupted. The new model needs to be transmitted to children and young people and, most importantly, should be included in European school plans. The LOOP project intends to transfer knowledge and competences concerning sustainable development and in particular to current scientific debates around the issues of Circular Economy and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The project aims to, on the one hand, provide students with scientific knowledge and the skills to understand current global issues related to sustainable development. On the other hand, it intends to also stimulate students in learning, developing and sharing conscious behaviours. The project will involve the participation of teachers, students and tutors in the project activities. In particular, the project will involve around 160 students from 5 schools in 3 EU countries and their teachers. Moreover, specialised personnel of FEEM and the University of Zagreb will be dedicated to the tutoring operations and will be selected by the same organisations according to the functions they will have to perform.To reach its goals, the project will support and guide students in the development of a number of activities and outputs under the guidance of appropriately trained teachers and tutors and through the special “Meet&Learn” Platform. The activities will be based on innovative digital technologies specifically designed to stimulate the inclusion of participants and encourage the learning of the relevant project topics and their basic values.The LOOP project intends to adopt a highly innovative didactic approach based on digital and ICT pedagogy. In particular, the project will be based on an original methodology, developed by the partner CivicaMente and called “Open Mind” which uses multimedia tools to guarantee a high degree of learners’ involvement and which promotes the strengthening of soft skills through activities mediated by digital technology.The project will produce the following results: an Online Platform, a virtual learning environment, structured in different levels that will be used as mean of communication, online repository, interactive training provider and a dissemination channel; Teachers and Training Materials, virtual classrooms including learning units for the teachers; Pitch Elevator videos, short video messages presenting the students involved in the project; Report on Flipped Classroom, a methodological and content report in concerning the main results of the performances conducted by the students in the classroom, on the assigned research topic; Research essays (e-books), resulting from the national field research of the students investigating the four “R’s” of the circular economy; Transnational thematic projects on the basis of the e-books already produced during the national research activities; a Report explaining the overall methodology adopted for each phase of the project: from the online platform structure, through the training methodology for students and teachers, to the flipped classroom and national and international working groups. It is expected that the LOOP project will have an impact on all the individuals involved; in particular, the students will improve their linguistic, technological and scientific knowledge on circular economy, and the teachers will dispose of innovative teaching methodologies and key competences on the themes addressed. Starting from the local level, the desirable impact would be the creation of a virtuous cycle that could expand to the regional, national and European levels. A further impact concerns the awareness raising at different levels regarding the importance of turning to a circular economy model based on the principles “Redesign, Reduction, Recycling and Reuse” to promote the achievement of the SDGs of the Agenda 2030.

All life is connected and dependent on water and the globe is mainly covered by water. The scarcity of clean water has been a big global problem and is ever increasing due to increasing population and pollution caused by humans. People are highly unequal about the availability of clean water. Our students are those who are the most touched in the future and they are extremely worried about the situation of our planet. This concern is seen in every country of the project and our aim is to increase our students’ knowledge of the problems and moreover, to come up with ideas how they could do something useful for everybody’s future. In Europe, we have functional municipal and industrial water purification systems presently compared to that in the days of industrialization. Still there are many careless and unconscious habits in our living standards that need to be addressed in order to confirm the clean water for us all in the future. We eagerly buy goods that are produced on the other side of the world in poor countries with the expense of the local natural resources and human life. Increased consciousness of sustainable lifestyle has also motivated people to research sustainable technologies based on recycled renewable materials and energy sources.In this project, we are five partner schools from different parts of Europe who will work together towards the common goal to become the water sustainability managers/professionals. At the first phase we evaluate our every day water consumption including the invisible water. The relation to water in partner schools is different according to the place where the school is located. We examine and compare different local water ecosystems including lakes, rivers and seas of the project countries. We share the knowledge of the condition of water areas and water treatment and purification systems within Europe. Pupils shoot a document of human impact on different water areas during the project to be used on all partner schools and published on webpage/vlog. We also wish to make permanent changes in our habits and share the idea of sustainable water consumption in our communities.The study methods and (intercultural) group activities are shared instantly in attending schools and in local communities as well as globally through our project web sites. The project activities are built in a way they may be utilized in teaching even after the project is completed. Moreover, according to our curriculums, our aim is also to co-operate with business life so that our participants could realize the importance of our theme.