SCALE

A main impact envisaged for project is on the attitudes of students and teachers who believe they cannot or do not have an impact on the environment, or that they are too small to make a difference to national and European issues. Therefore, the project will look to re-position the views of both the students and teacher, by highlighting both the professional and personal benefits of the application of creative teaching and learning methodologies, linked to community level environmental issues and concerns. The impact of such realignment in opinion will generate an increased engagement by young people with environmental issues, which will see a long-term increase in the number of young people entering into environmentally focused science, technology, engineering and mathematics. At the same time this increased engagement will also help to address issues around local environmental and climate change issues. Through their ability to think from an increasingly creative and critical perspective, students will be able to identify and address European environmental issues, by acting at local level, and will understand the bigger picture in terms of how their actions permeate up to contribute to national and European issues. As a result, the project will help to create a generation of better qualified young people, addressing many of the existing gaps in key competences across Europe.