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WATERSCHOOL initiative could improve children’s health as well as reduce plastic pollution
(Ljubljana, March 23, 2020) The Erasmus+ project WATERSCHOOL promotes drinking of tap water at school through a European Initiative. Drinking tap water regularly at school could improve children’s health, increases concentration, and thus improves performance, and helps reduce plastic waste. To celebrate the UN Water Day the WATERSCHOOL project partners today start an EU wide campaign to raise awareness about the importance of proper hydration at schools. „We encourage schools all over Europe to become Waterschools and help improve children’s health as well as the health of the environment by supporting drinking tap water at schools“, says Rosemarie Zehetgruber from Continua…
EREC GUIDELINES for VIVET Content Creators and Users
The Erasmus Plus Vivet project team completed the Guidelines for instructors, teachers and platform operators, following a quality procedure called EREC (Electronic Resources Evaluation Criteria). We therefore have the pleasure of making this four-part document available to all VIVET users. EREC includes the following parts: the methodology followed for the design of the contents and the didactic paths adopted in the construction of the VIVET training courses; a comparative survey on the state of the art of the criteria adopted for the evaluation of the quality of open educational content in electronic format: the description of the criteria adopted by Continua…
Erasmus Plus project Waterschools aims and goals
Strengthening open digital education on water consumption in schools through the creation of teaching tools and innovative practices. Why Water in Schools? Facts & Figures Water and health More than 20 percent of children in the EU are either overweight or obese. These rates have increased significantly over the past decades. The consumption of sugar sweetened drinks is often associated with obesity in children. Almost 40 percent of the sugar consumed by young children, comes drinking sugar sweetened drinks. Promotion and provision of drinking water in schools has shown to prevent overweight. In Europe, 20 to 90 percent of 6-year-old Continua…
Erasmus Plus Waterschool helps to protect a strategic resource: water
The Erasmus Plus Waterschool project contributes, starting from the level of the school, to a more correct use of a strategic resource, water, and its proper use. Indeed, the Italian case is particularly significant, as these figures show. Italy is the largest European consumer of bottled water According to a CENSIS survey, 90.3% of Italians drink mineral water, 79.7% drink at least half a liter a day. In the last twenty years, between 1995 and 2016, there has been a boom in consumers, which have grown by as much as 19 percentage points: even more impressive is the increase of Continua…
The results of “Erasmus Plus for migrants and refugees” in Arcevia
The Erasmus 30 Day event “Erasmus for migrants and refugees“, which the clar carried out on 13 October 2017 in Arcevia (AN), in the beautiful context of the ancient convent of San Francesco, has seen considerable participation by migrants, operators of reception, trainers, teachers, representatives of public institutions and the world of trade unions, cooks and food professionals, as well as a broad representation of the foreign partners of the Erasmus Plus VIVET and Suskinder projects that The association is currently developing. The Erasmus 30 Day event “Erasmus for migrants and refugees“, which the clar carried out on 13 October Continua…
Waterschool Erasmus Plus project approved
A new Erasmus Plus project KA02 (innovation and good practices) has been approved by Austrian NA: “WATERSCHOOL – strengthening open digital education and innovative practice through relevant, innovative teaching tools about water consumption in schools.“ The project acronym is WATERSCHOOL and its partnership includes our association Centro Libero Analisi e Ricerca – CLAR, responsible for project activities in Italy. The leading partner is Gutessens Consulting from Austria: the other organizations come from Bulgaria, Germany, Czech Republic, Slovenia, United Kingdom. The importance of drinking water in schools is well known by teachers meanwhile most of kindergarten and school teachers allow waterdrinking during Continua…
Erasmus Plus VIVET training activated: many courses available for free
We inform our readers that the Clar, as part of the Erasmus Plus Vivet project, of which we have spoken often in the last year, has activated a few weeks the numerous courses we have developed and which we are developing on the platform, which can be reached at the site web vivet.education. Access and use of the courses are totally free – you only have to register with an e-mail and a password of your choice. We advise you to take a look at the site, where you can find: – collection and evaluation of educational videos, organized by Continua…
Erasmus 30 Day event “Erasmus for Migrants and Refugees”
The Erasmus 30 Day event “Erasmus for Migrants and Refugees”, which the CLAR realized on October 13, 2017 in Arcevia (AN), in the beautiful context of the ancient convent of San Francesco, saw a considerable participation by migrants, reception operators, trainers, teachers, representatives of public and trade union institutions, cooks and food professionals, as well as a broad representation of the foreign partners of the Erasmus Plus Vivet and SusKinder projects that the Association is currently developing. The works were opened by the mayor of Arcevia, Andrea Bomprezzi, who underlined the importance of the conference in the strategy that his Continua…
Videos about Erasmus for Migrants and Refugees’ meeting
The videos of the presentations that the CLAR has realized during the Erasmus 30 Day work morning, in Arcevia (AN), dedicated to the theme “Erasmus for Migrants and Refugees” are now fully available on our YouTube channel, at the following address: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRMweusJEXYfcz720VNiFCw By subscribing to our channel, you can then view the videos recorded during the event. Good vision.