28.06.2022 – Exchange of experience on ecological education, with schools from Romania, Italy, Spain and Turkey, involved in the “Hello, Dear Cli-Mates!” project, funded by the Erasums program, dedicated to students aged 10 to 13, which has as its main objective “Climate change and awareness of its effects”.

Climate change is a reality, and urgent measures need to be taken to limit its impact. The effects of climate change are manifested in all areas, including health, quality of life and accelerated loss of biodiversity.

Educational institutions have an important role in improving education and raising awareness among young people regarding awareness of the causes of climate change, adaptation and reduction of its impact.

During the visit, we discussed the importance of ecological education in schools and future collaborations within joint projects.

We discussed the activities carried out with the young people within the LIFE project, where we used the cave as a classroom. Teaching materials on the protection of caves and bats will be made available to teachers, in English, so that they can be presented in the schools participating in the project.

In addition, we presented to the teachers the fields of activity of the Timiș Environmental Protection Agency. Regarding the air quality monitoring activity, we explained how to determine the concentrations of pollutants in the atmosphere through automatic air quality monitoring stations and the determination of the PM10 fraction, heavy metals by the gravimetric method in the laboratory.