📋 Tender Overview
Objectives
Biodiversity is essential for life. Still, we watch his unprecedented loss. Therefore AVATAR project, involving 5 partners from Slovakia, Czech Republic and Spain, educational institutions & ZOOs, will provide teachers/educators in ZOOs with innovative educational materials about biodiversity using modern digital tools and various forms of teaching in & outside of school, with the goal to support teachers' skills in education on biodiversity and spread awareness about the need to protect it.
Activities
5 project partners, 20 teachers and their 200 students will be directly involved in:
- trainings & workshops with the aim to acquire relevant knowledge & skills
- school education through game-based learning, combining PC based APP and tabletop game to understand economic and ecological interests in biodiversity conservation
- outdoor learning with mobile APP to observe local biodiversity or species in ZOOs
- calls to take actions on local biodiversity, thus contributing to civic participation
Impact
By providing beneficiaries with educational materials (simulation game, worksheets, mobile app with educational trails, educational videos, biodiversity challenges & database), the AVATAR project can contribute to filling the gap in the availability of comprehensive materials to acquire relevant knowledge and skills of teachers & students about biodiversity loss and mitigation measures, as well as to strengthen the position of partners as educational providers on biodiversity protection.
