About project

The E+ project is set to enhance collaboration between partner schools from Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia, and Norway. All schools involved are IB World Schools that follow the International Baccalaureate (IB) programme. The IB’s mission is to cultivate knowledgeable, caring, and inquisitive young people who are committed to creating a more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect. 

In line with this mission, the primary goal of the ‘Think Global – Act Local’ initiative is to bolster the social and environmental responsibility of secondary school students from Norway, Slovenia, Slovakia, and Poland through a two-year Erasmus+ project that will end in 2024. To achieve this objective, we will design activities that promote social and environmental responsibility among IBDP students, and the project will include mobilities in each of the participating countries. 

Given that all the participating schools are IB World Schools, the projects will be linked to the Core Theory of Knowledge (TOK) and Creativity, Activity, and Service (CAS) components of the IB curriculum. 

The project aims to achieve the following outcomes: 

• Enhance the awareness and social skills of around 20 teachers and 250 students towards minority groups. 
• Foster inclusion at the school, local, and international levels. 
• Integrate modern practices and innovative methods into formal (TOK) and informal (CAS) teaching. 

• Encourage approximately 20 teachers to adopt innovative practices in their professional fields, which will benefit around 250 students, and motivate them to teach TOK or participate in extracurricular activities (CAS). 
• Strengthen the involvement of approximately 250 students and 20 teachers in extracurricular activities. 
• Promote the idea of international exchanges to internationalise the entire school community (not just the IB departments). 
• Reinforce the IB mission statement’s objectives by developing knowledgeable, inquisitive, and compassionate young people who promote intercultural understanding and respect, thereby creating a more peaceful world through education. 

The project fulfills the horizontal priority of inclusion and diversity by creating diverse educational activities for youth, such as: 

• Including a diversity of IBDP students in the selection process and involving people connected to local NGOs we collaborate with in the activities. 
• Prioritizing diversity among the students in our inter-school collaboration. 
• Ensuring diversity among the students in our international collaboration. 

Additionally, the project addresses the horizontal priority of the environment and the fight against climate change through: 

• Activities in the different countries that promote the protection of the environment. Incorporating eco-friendly and sustainable practices into the activities.  
• Focusing TOK workshops on developing critical thinking skills and knowledge related to protecting the environment and fighting climate change.  
• Reflective workshops and the dissemination of project knowledge to ensure that it can be passed on to future generations.