CONTEXT OF PROJECT:
The Environment.Skills project made stronger that EE is a broad concept implying many different aspects of life
(personal, professional, etc.) and through the project development the environmental themes have been integrated to
the curricula of participants and educative institutions.
The Environment.Skills project created best possibilities for shaping people’s value orientations. The project moulded a new way to implement EE, showing as sustainable development is a system of knowledge, skills, attitudes and value
orientations, which made people conscious of the relations of the natural, economic, and socio-cultural environment,
focusing thereby on the idea of sustainable development.

MAIN OBJECTIVES:
Within the project, NTM strengthened and working-out on the components of environmental education, as:
-Awareness and sensitivity to the environment and environmental challenges
-Knowledge and understanding of the environment and environmental challenges
-Attitudes of concern for the environment and motivation to improve or maintain environmental quality
-Skills to identify and help resolve environmental challenges
-Participation in activities that lead to the resolution of environmental challenges.

 

NUMBER AND PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTS:
Environment.Skills addressed to 21 participants in VET, divided in:
-16 NTM teaching staff, for a training period abroad of 6 days, excluding travel;
-5 learners studying environmental management subjects, for a training period abroad of 13 days, excluding travel;
-6 extra participants have been calculated but this flow has been canceled for Covid19 pandemic.
Educational background referred to the sectors of the environmental subjects, biological, organic, sustainable,
managerial and communicative activities connected to the environmental education, training and management context and equivalent.

ACTIVITIES:
The Environment.Skills gave the opportunity to do an internship VET (NTM teaching staff and learners in EE and
environment management), thematic EE and sustainable development, for staff and learners, bearing the added value
of internationality. The training activities referred therefore to a full-immersion experience in environmental realities and entities of a different European country (Italy), through a process of effective depth and targeted training.

The training process in the selected as talented foreign entity, strategic for practing and developing training and
educational environmental activities, allowed participants to acquire knowledge and develop managerial, training and
communicative skills connected to the EE, sustainable development and environment management.

METHODOLOGY:
Environment.Skills empowered individuals and communities to become agents of change to achieve the well-being of
the human race without compromising that of future generations. It applied holistic approaches to target the
environmental, economic and social well-being of the human race and the whole planet.
The project chose Italy as European country of destination, for its characteristics and its neighborhood to Malta, close
for distance but especially for the similar Mediterranean environmental contexts.

NTM, applicant organisation, worked synergistically with the foreign intermediary and hosting company located in the
foreign Country. The entire partnership (national and foreign) is, by missions, addicted to encourage KNOWLEDGE and SECTORAL SKILLS, operating with synergistic action between EDUCATION and VOCATIONAL WORK TRAINING,
encouraging the development of education and management skills and the attainment of qualifications for fill in the gaps at skills level.

RESULTS:
-high feedback on the national educational, entrepreneurial and environmental context.
-enhancement of synergy environment-education-economy.
-creation of a pool of national HR strategic to encourage adaptation and innovation and to support the strengthening of environmental policies in many different sector.
-partecipatory presence and importance of interactions between Countries.

IMPACT:
The impact is strong on the environmental education concept: is a driving force to obtain a qualitatively high feedback
on the national EE and sustainable development context; it also created a pool of national human resources strategic to encourage adaptation and innovation and to support the strengthening of environmental policies in the educational and managerial sectors of environment context in Malta.

On the LONG TERM, the Environment.Skills project:
-with the added value of internationality, generated broadmindedness and adaptation and provided the right tools to
compete in this specific context;
-with its objectives, is contributing to the environmental challenges so that the EU can becoming the most competitive
and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world.

We are happy and satisfied that at the end, despite Covid19 challenges, we completed all moblities and objectives.

Final Presentation results E+

From May 11 to June 29 of 2016, one of the most spectacular adventures I have ever had in my life: the trip to Italy.

For 50 days there was a whole mix of feelings, from joy, sadness and also longing. Joy, because it was always something that I wanted to accomplish, sadness because it was 50 days without the people with whom we are accustomed to live, that is, parents and family, and, finally, the homesickness of the people I met there and the friendships I created and that I know I’ll never forget.

In Italy, Rovigo, I completed my Training in the Workplace at FISIOMED. In these 50 days, I became an individual, personally and professionally, because I had the privilege of being selected in a group where only 6 people could go, and where I was able to know the working methods that exist in Italy , which are different from those of Portugal.

With this I was able to be even more organized, more autonomous and more objective in my professional life and I thank the entire team of FISIOMED who helped me in everything I needed, both in language and professional level.  This experience gave to realize a dream to know the fantastic city of Venice. A lovely city and I had the pleasure and privilege of visiting with this project.

Erasmus + also has the capacity to realize dreams, and this is spectacular, and I did not visit only Venice, but also Verona, Padua, Ferrara, Comachio and Bologna. Without this project, you probably could never have done it! It was a great adventure that leaves a great longing and a gigantic will to become there. With this, I want to persuade all the students of the school to apply for this project because it will undoubtedly mark you for the rest of your life, just as you have marked me.

Mariana Correia

I was in the third year of the Course of Trade Technician when there was the opportunity of six students of the school who attended the last year of the course to be able to compete for their Formation in Work Context in Italy, specifically in the city of Rovigo, province of Veneto .

I ended up getting the courage to sign up, especially for being held in Italy, a country that has always fascinated me and fortunately I ended up being one of the chosen ones among the six. On the day of May, we left, I remember being very nervous, I had never been on a plane, and I was always afraid of it, and besides, I prepared myself psychologically to leave Portugal, even if only for seven weeks.

The trip turned out to be quiet and after arriving at Rovigo we met the accommodation and so began my experience. In the first week we met the city, we had classes with teacher Antonietta and that same week I met the place where I realized my third and last stage, “I Sapori Dell’Orto”, a supermarket in which I was very well received both by the owner of the establishment , Mr. Marco, for the collaborator, Mrs. Uriana, as well as for the customers of the supermarket. And, of course, I can not forget the daughter of Mr. Marco who sometimes went to the supermarket, and the university Maria Teresa who sometimes was going to earn some extra money.

Over the forty-nine days we visited some cities, Venice, Verona, Rome, Padua, Ferrara, Bologna. The first city we visited was the historic city of Venice known for its gondolas, St. Mark’s Square, the Basilica, among other monuments. Verona was undoubtedly the city that surprised me the most, known for its inspiration for the work “Romeo and Juliet” by the English William Shakespeare.

I honestly was delighted from the center of the city to the famous House of Juliet, where, as soon as we entered, we found walls full of declarations of lovers or simple hearts. Further ahead is the prestigious statue of Juliet, which has the strange tradition of passing a hand on the right breast of the statue to find true love. We visited Rome, and as it belongs to the province of Lazio, we had to catch two trains and make a long trip that ended up being worth it. As we knew we would have to walk always and only with the help of the GPS, we took the pre-defined route and so we could visit the Colosseum in Rome, the Trevi Fountain, the Vatican where I bought the memory for my grandmother.

To conclude, I have to say that this experience enriched me personally, in terms of independence, cultural enrichment, growth and also at the professional level. With this, I think that whenever there is an opportunity like Erasmus + should take advantage.