Meet the All Aboard project!
All Aboard: Creating a community of green changemakers during childhood aims to promote a student-led holistic educational approach, empowering children as creative, innovative, and sustainability-conscious leaders. The All Aboard project focuses on the development of sustainable activities to be implemented in primary schools of the three partner countries: Sweden, Portugal, and Turkey.
This project is coordinated by Global Playground Stockholm (Sweden) and involves the participation of four partner organizations: Mentortec (Portugal), Agrupamento de Escolas de Loureiro (Portugal), Innovation Frontiers IKE (Greece) and Ahmet Baldoktu Ilkokulu (Turkey).
The kick-off meeting of the project took place on the 16th of January 2023, in an online format, with all organisations attending. This first meeting had as main objective to outline the next steps and activities of the project, namely the activities of the second work package, as well as the transversal activities of management, quality and dissemination of the project.
Since then, several planned All Aboard activities have been successfully completed. Noteworthy achievements include the development of the Methodological Approach Framework, consisting of a Catalogue of Good Practices, reports of conducted Igniting Workshops, and the All Aboard Toolbox, designed to empower primary school teachers with tools for promoting education for sustainability in their school.
Grounded in the commitment to promote an innovative and widely participated educational approach for the effective transformation of practices adopted by students and teachers in the project-implemented schools, the All Aboard Methodological Approach Framework states as a fundamental tool for empowering ecological agents within and beyond the school environment.
Recognizing the importance of using the MAF into practical contexts, All Aboard also developed several training sessions, both internationally, with all project partners, and nationally, involving teachers of the partner schools in more immersive and collaborative work experiences.
These training sessions, known within the All Aboard project as the Teacher Capacity Building Program: Supporting Children to Lead Change, involved collaborative and reflective work focused on the practical application of knowledge and skills promoted by the Methodological Approach Framework. This included the Mini Mentors Camp, foreseen for the following project months.
The All Aboard Mini Mentors Camp aims to empower children as ecological agents, fostering collaboration through mentoring relationships between older students (10 to 12 years old) and their younger peers (6 to 9 years old). The Mini Mentors Camp stands as one of the main pillars of the All Aboard project, actively promoting a participative approach towards the development of a green changemakers community.
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For more information, please contact Global Playground Sweden via email: info@globalplaygroundstockholm.com