etwinning project presentation

1. LIFELONG BIOECONOMY
ETWINNING PROJECT
COORD. ALINA POPA
LICEUL TEHNOLOGIC DE INDUSTRIE ALIMENTARA G.E.PALADE SATU MARE
Short description
The concept of Bioeconomy comes to the forefront in this age when resources are rapidly depleted and
environmental pollution increases. The aim of this project is to enable students to learn the concept of
bioeconomy and to carry out studies supporting Bioeconomy. The bio-based economy, including the
recycling of living masses, will also support sustainable development and contribute to the national and
global new directions of economy and environment changes for a better Planet. Bioeconomy is a new
concept for students but it is related with protection of the environment and requests also actions and
awareness for our nature. Understanding the importance of reducing, reusing and recycling waste
products, students will contribute to develop their skills for a sustainable life and responsible daily
consumption, helping in this way a better global economy. The project contribute for 21st century skills
development from early ages, such as participation in discussions, taking responsibility, communication,
collaboration in teams, sharing experiences,critical thinking, finding solutions, using digital web2.0 tools
consciously and effectively, cultural understanding and English language development skills.
Links to Project Outcomes
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/90104/home
https://www.instagram.com/lifelong_bioeconomy/?hl=tr
https://lifelongbioeconomy.blogspot.com/2020/04/
https://www.preceden.com/timelines/594250-l-felong-b-oeconomy
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCht36BB3Xslv04JrNnYONAA?view_as=subscriber
https://www.canva.com/design/DAEBX8ejIGQ/Dx6qWinVi4FaHQC93QqNiA/view?utm_content=DAE
BX8ejIGQ&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=sharebutton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_HE1aIiI4w&fbclid=IwAR2hg87jKynoLw0lrZhZWpUdDclzGwXu
tvMNMhUTMv5OnT9cDxvEcTdk8Qc
https://padlet.com/popalina21/5g7c6twkcqrzlle

2. https://www.canva.com/design/DAD5IuElZPo/Q9cubpvN-
kNxaNUjtJogTw/view?utm_content=DAD5IuElZPo&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&
utm_source=publishsharelink#3
https://kahoot.it/challenge/88fbcb29-7bee-483f-9b3f-2698424b0bb2_1587068866371
Pedagogical Innovation and Creativity
„Lifelong Bioeconomy” is an innovative project by its title. Teaching students about Bioeconomy is a
challenge especially from the new SDG perspectives. It is innovative by its activities that were proposed
in the project-recycle and reused waste bioproducts. The main objectives are: awareness for recycling
products, reducing consumption and awareness for collecting and reusing waste products, for the benefits
of national and global economy, protect environment and support a sustainable economy in the World.
We engaged students in a variety of activities like handmade, outdoor cleaning and collaborative
activities, keeping the target for acting responsible especially for waste products. Project is focused on
awareness for climate changes, protecting environment by daily and responsible actions, finding solutions
and improving 21st
century skills as collaboration, enlarge creativity, tinkering, crafts and imagination,
solving problems and teamwork. Pedagogical methods are centered on students work, sharing activities
made in schools, exchange experiences, knowing other education systems and focused for developing life
competences as ICT skills, English language, debates about biomass and bioproducts and reusing waste
products by participating in collaborative outcomes. Students worked in country groups for local-schools
activities and worked in groups for the collaborative parts like voting logo, sharing cleaning local
activities, environment protection activities in the schools, creative handmade bioproducts, working on
final e-book. Teachers from different countries were also grouped for guiding international teams to
create the common final e-book with biorecipes. During the project students choosed web2.0 tools that
were used for presenting their work on specified twinpages. So, we increased students` creativity,
knowledge, attitudes and skills. In this way, we succeeded to learn from each other, share experience in
the same aim, for the same goals, in the same spirit learning with innovative approaches of Bioeconomy
science.
Curricular integration
Project is integrate in technical and social disciplines of the curriculum like: Environment Protection for
awareness of collecting used products, Chemistry and Biochemistry for making bio-soap and detergents,
Biology for planting seeds, Social Science disciplines for moral and ethic attitude for keeping clean the
Planet, Volunteer actions for climate change participating in community events, English Language in
communication and ICT discipline for using the web2.0. Teaching Bioeconomy in school can have an
extracurricular approach but in the same time can be integrated in teaching different subjects as a
multidisciplinary approach. The major key competence developed in students is awareness for climate
actions, circular economy, to have a clear perspective about collecting waste like oil or biowaste products
and reusing waste products for creating new products, with new technologies for a better global
economy. In this way, students have a perspective about raw materials, natural resources that are limited
nowadays and the necessity to invest, gave attention and to develop a circular economy. Once they
understand this issues, it is very simple for them to start to be aware and to reconfigure their daily habits
about the waste products. Climate change is the issue of the year. Bioeconomy comes to help actions
related with climate change because it is using renewable biological resources from land and sea – such as
crops, forest, fish, animals, and micro-organisms – to produce food, materials and energy. Our project is
focused on activities that were possible in community and in school for support Bioeconomy exemples -
cleaning the town areas and nature, events on climate change, planting seeds, collecting waste oil,
collecting electronic waste, tinkering products from waste plastic products, all these contributed for
students` awareness of the importance of the subject of the project. Students experienced new technics for
producing soap, cremes and natural detergents which was an attractive part in the project. Definetly

3. another key competences in this project is student collaboration in the project, developing their talents,
practicing handmade skills, creating the final collaborative e-book about Bioproducts for personal care.
Collaboration between partner schools.
We planned teachers assignment distribution from the beginning and we knew our place in the project and
the responsabilities. Teachers and students teams collaborate in twinspace pages and respond on forum
and webinars. Teachers had online webinars for establishing the plan of the project, during the project and
reviewing opinions about final products. Teachers had a WhatApp and Facebook-Messenger Group for
better interaction. All new activities were uploaded in Latest Update in Twinspace or announcements in
Teachers Buletin. Project has also an Instagram account for dissemination the stages of the project.
Students` webinars or chats were often for their contact, knowing each other, communication, sharing
experience or questions. Also students met on chats during school period. They interacted also in Project
facebook-comments. Collaboration between partners in the project is visible in all activities in twinspace-
pages, and comments on forum. We exchanged information about individual or collaborative products in
the latest update and facebook announcement. Introducing part of the project was clearly defined and this
brought the members in good cooperation and close connection throughout the project. We have started
the project with presenting partners, code of conduct and rules, teachers and parents agreements, student
presentation and channels of visibility of the project. We shared students expectations and survey for logo
of the project. Good collaboration during project kept partners together for the variety of activities
engaged in the project, also for presenting local activities of the partners. Partners shared local activities
as Clean Up Day, Volunteers activities, Eco-Campaigns, Electronics Waste campaign, Biobased materials
presentations, Climate change event or Composting activities, Etwinning Day and events.
Use of technology
This project had the aim to improve IT-technologies competences for students using online techniques.
We established and share the Internet awareness for online Safety for all and sharing activities we did.
Many web2.0 tools were used in the project, mainly videos, padlets, pictures, pdf-reports or powerpoint
presentations gathered in presentation tools like piktochart, canva, postermywall, animoto, videos,
iMovie, vivavideos etc. We shared experience and learned new tools together. Students were developing
more IT skills working in team-padlets with different tasks. The work was collaborative and is proved
with small products of students individual work or in teams using tools like: logomaker variants, posters
with postermywall or canva, mindmaps piktochart for sumar presentation, padlet for common team
works, calameo and issuu.com presentations, storyjumper for dissemination of the project, iMovies,
Animoto.com for movies about activities. Students have trainned with this web 2.0 tools and decide the
best for them for presentations and reports uploaded on twinspace pages. More Web 2.0 Tools were used:
reasyze for collage-photos, flamingtext.com for gifs, pdf reports, mozaically.com for presentation, videos,
mp3-voice registered for Christmas message, surveys and comments in twin-forum, animoto.com, digital
games as Kahoot.com for final webinar, canva.com for the final common e-magazine. We collect our all
work and shared web2.0 tools used in the project, in a collaborative students` padlet.
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/90104/pages/page/997775
hhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=23&v=VjykT0NMUug&feature=emb_logottps://padlet
.com/popalina21/5g7c6twkcqrzlle
https://www.storyjumper.com/book/read/85701665/Lifelong-Bioeconomy-working-in-project
https://create.piktochart.com/output/47499514-my-visual

4. Results, impact and documentation
Project has a good plan so it was easy to achieve the objectives because the close collaboration and the
steps that we did together. Objectives were focused on awareness for Bioeconomy science, developing
skills regarding climate protection, increase responsibilities in actions for students, developing solutions
for environment and bioeconomy, developing 21st century skills for teamwork and collaboration, social
skills and attitudes, cultural understanding and developing IT and English communication skills. We
carried out activities that proved we achieved our goals in a multidisciplinary and collaborative way. We
empowered students with information about bioeconomy and we engaged them in practical . We created
esafety informative activity for teachers, students and parents and we organized teams and events like
webinars and chats and forum communication etc. We shared experience and presented activities.We
participated in common activities in the project and we collaborate for outcomes. We required our
students to write reviews and comments on forum pages. All diverse activities increased students`
responsibility and conscientiousness. Expectations, evaluation and Kahoot activities were important and it
has impact on students and community. Dissemination activities were made on social media channels,
newspapers, blog, sites using different tools as e-book report, videos,posters. The results are very good
and the team of the project is confident with results. Dissemination was made by each school in various
methods, on schools website, social media, facebook, instagram account, pedagogical site, newspaper
appearance, etwinning event course, project website was shared for clear visibility. This project had a
special impact for our school because is considered as innovative and new. Also has an impact on our
school for our Etwinning school title and we worked very hard to have the nice outcome, the
collaboration and to achieve the goals of the project.
My contribution
I am the member of the project and I was responsible for facebook arrangement group and posts. Besides
this, I have guidance to my students after the plan of the project and I have organized activities related
with project title, in the school. I organized cleaning volunteers local activity, Collecting electronics
activity in school. During pandemia period I kept the contact with students via email, facebook and
web2.0 tools for creating the reports of the requested activities. Also I have contributed for the common
product of the project, for videos that shared our work such as Etwinning posters, twinspace pages, final
celebrating audio. Personally I had the responsibility to keep the facebook page with news and to share
these for the visibility and dissemination of the project. I helped other team colleagues to keep the level
of tasks and try to work constantly. Me and my students participated to all work that we had to do and we
have created collaboratively the pages on the common final e-book. We contributed with materials,
reports, storyjumper, piktochart, videos, pictures of the work, padlets, posters and comments in forum. I
contributed in teachers meeting and organize the chats for my students during school period and during
lockdown time. I have organized Cyberbullying activity with my students during lockdown time shared
on twinspace and our work-padlet. My contribution also consisted in etwinning Event registration of the
Meteorological day celebration, as part of this project for dissemination and Etwinning Day Event and
video sharing. I disseminated the project in various ways as Facebook of the school, Facebook of the
parents, using issuu.com report for dissemination. Also I have participated in an Etwinning Learning
Event during july where I disseminated this project in another final common course e-book. I am very
confident with this project and satisfied for my students` acquisition of knowledges and competent skills
they acquired during teamwork on this project. My Etwinning School increased its richness in etwinning
projects and various etwinning activities and this makes me motivated and satisfied.
Other Awards (if applicable).
16 partners of the project received European and National Quality Labels.