Blast the Plast (BTP)

Topic(s) addressed

• Civic engagement and responsible citizenship 

• Sustainability: the link between plastic pollution and climate change 

• Promoting creativity: Providing tools to create positive, lasting environmental

• change (in a school environment)

Target groups

• Students

• Families

• Local communities

• Teachers

• Companies and Representatives  

• External cooperation partners

Methodologies

• Facilitating a project-based learning approach- highlighting students’ individual strengths 

• Cross-disciplinary learning with a broad variety of activities (later added to the school’s curriculum) benefitting the students with learning difficulties. 

• Applying foreign language skills in a real-life context

• Building the project website in collaboration with HDMStuttgart students 

• The eTwinning platform as a fundamental tool for the successful implementation of the project

Environments

• Fostering key competencies for lifelong learning within the EU framework. 

• Multi-faceted approaches to learning and assessment methodologies

• Creating innovative dissemination products 

• Learning about country-specific best practice examples while getting familiar with the local business context 

• Applying the reduction of single-use plastic in the flagship projects 

Teachers

• The application of innovative teaching and learning methods such as collaboration with universities and experts 

• Teachers from the participating countries implemented hybrid teaching.

• Enabling creative teaching and integrative activities. 

• The main objective was to establish student-centred activities as well as a connection between teaching content and real life closely connected to the use of technology and multimedia.

Impact

• The project contributed to the students’ environmental education. 

• They were able to strengthen their intercultural skills as well as their media competencies. 

• They were also given the opportunity to generate a great output due to the cross-disciplinary learning approach and the close cooperation with universities, institutions and external experts. 

• Students developed teamwork skills 

• The new “plastic reduction” ambassadors continue with the project that has started at their school.