The ECOTIC Caravan and projects intended for children and teachers all over Romania

de | septum. 16, 2015 | Ecotic Projects

The "ECO DAYS IN YOUR SCHOOL!" campaign is an awareness campaign that involves schools and their communities - teachers, students and their families - in ecological activities inside the schools that registered in our campaign. The focal point of interest is the Caravan’s visit to the school that takes part in the project.

This campaign has very clear and easy to monitor objectives: reaching as many schools as possible and thus reaching a sensitive public to educational activities (children), organizing eco-friendly and awareness-building activities and finalizing them in concrete actions of collection for WEEE and battery waste.

We want to make the process as fun and interactive as possible, so we register the schools for a competition! Based on their level of involvement and the results they obtain, the most eco-diligent schools are rewarded in each edition of the campaign.

We started the second edition on September 1st, 2015! Up until October 20th, 2015, all schools that have 1st to 8th grades are invited to register for the "ECO Days in Your School!" campaign.

The towns that are on the map of the current edition are:

  1. Bucharest - between 14 - 17, 21 - 25 and 28 - 30 September, as well as between 02 - 04, 07 - 10 and 15 - 18 December 2015 - 23 schools
  2. Ramnicu Valcea - 1 October - 1 school
  3. Sibiu - 5 - 8 October - 4 schools
  4. Alba Iulia - 13 - 23 October - 9 schools
  5. Turda - 26 - 28 October - 3 schools
  6. Cluj Napoca - 29 October - 6 November - 7 schools
  7. Targu Mures - 16 - 20 November - 5 schools
  8. Sighisoara - 23 - 26 November - 4 schools
  9. Craiova - 04 - 12 January 2016 - 7 schools
  10. Drobeta Turnu Severin - 13, 14, 19, 20 January 2016 - 4 schools
  11. Resita - 21, 22, 25 January 2016 - 3 schools
  12. Timisoara - 26, 27, 28 January 2016 and 8, 9, February 2016 - 5 schools
  13. Arad - 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 19 February 2016 - 6 schools
  14. Oradea - 22, 23, 24, 25 February 2016 and 01, 02 March 2016 - 6 schools
  15. Deva - 03, 04, 07 March 2016 - 3 schools
  16. Hunedoara - 08, 09, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16 March 2016 - 7 schools
  17. Targu Jiu - 17, 18, 21, 22, 23 March 2016 - 5 schools

 

The first edition of the “ECO Days in Your School” campaign started in November 2014 and ended with the school year, in June 2015. The message regarding the need to correctly collect and recycle WEEE reached 104 schools in 23 towns all over the country and more than 50 children were involved. All schools were registered for a fun and useful competition and the jury decided on the winners. As a result, 000 tons of WEEE and 20.1 tons of battery waste were collected.

The winners of the first edition of the "ECO Days in Your School" campaign:

  • 1st place and an eco-camp for 20 children: „Carmen Sylva” Secondary School in Iasi, coordinating teacher Mariana Dinter;
  • 2nd place and a smart schoolboard: Sports High School in Botosani, coordinating teacher Anca Toma;
  • 3rd place and a video-projector + home cinema system: "Vasile Alecsandri" secondary school in Romanian, coordinating teacher Poenaru Alexandra Georgiana.

The eco-camp "Love for the Mountains" took place between June 30th - July 5th 2015 in Gura Raului (Sibiu). The secondary school children were involved in very attractive activities for their age: mountain walks, touristic orientation, camping, seminars (touristic markings, endangered species of plants in Cindrel Mountains, water - the source of life, first aid, rules of the mountains) , eco-workshops, creative workshops and the camp fire made the best of this wonderful camp.

The ECOTIC Caravan is a projectco-financed through EU's Life instrument.

 

The following schools were visited during the 1st edition of the campaign:

In Buzau - “Ion Creanga”, “Captain Aviator Mircea T. Badulescu”, “George Emil Palade”, Saint Apostle Andrei and “Bishop Dionisie Romano” Secondary Schools

In Galati - Secondary Schools no. 2, 11, 22, 33

In Braila - “Mihu Dragomir”, “Fanus Neagu”, “Aurel Vlaicu” Secondary Schools, The Sports High School, as well as Ana Aslan College

In Focsani - Secondary Schools: no. 3, „Stefan cel Mare” and „Nicolae Iorga”, „Spiru Haret” Pedagogical High School

In barlad - „George Tutoveanu” Secondary School and „Gheorghe Rosca Codreanu” College

In Vaslui - „Mihail Sadoveanu” Secondary School

In Iasi: "Alexandru cel Bun", "BP Hasdeu", "George Calinescu", "Carmen Sylva", "Gh. I. Bratianu ”Secondary Schools,„ Vasile Alecsandri ”Theoretical High School,„ Mihai Eminescu ”National College and„ Vasile Lupu ”Pedagogical High School

In Botosani: Secondary Schools: no. 1, 2, 10, 8 “Elena Rares”, 12, 13, 6 “Grigore Antipa”, the Sports High School and “Stefan Luchian” Arts High School

In dorohoi: "Spiru Haret" and "Mihail Kogalniceanu" Secondary Schools

 

In have fun: Secondary Schools: no. 2, no. 5 "Bogdan Voda" and "Mihai Eminescu"

In Suceava: „Miron Costin” and no. 4 Secondary Schools

In falticeni: „Al. I. Cuza ”School and„ Ion Irimescu ”Secondary School

In Targu Neamt: "Stefan cel Mare" National College and "Vasile Conta" Economic High School

In Roman: „Calistrat Hogas” and „Vasile Alecsandri” Secondary Schools

In Piatra Neamt: Secondary Schools: no. 2, 3, 5, "Elena Cuza" and "Petru Rares" National College

In Bacau: "Constantin Platon", "Alecu Russo", "Al. I. Cuza ”,“ Spiru Haret ”Secondary Schools and“ Ferdinand I ”College

In Adjudicated: "Emil Botta" College

In Brasov: Secondary Schools: no. 12, no. 2 “Deacon Coresi”, no. 9, no. 19, no. 25, „Grigore Antipa” Science College and „Andrei Barseanu” National Economic College

In It rains: "Andrei Muresanu", "IA Basarabescu", "Toma Caragiu", "Nichita Stanescu", "George Cosbuc", "Anton Pann" and "Mihai Eminescu" Secondary Schools

In Bargainers: "Matei Basarab" and "Prof. Paul Banica ”Secondary Schools

In George: Secondary School no. 5 "Emil Gulian", "Academician Marin Voiculescu" Secondary School and "Ion Maiorescu" National College

In Bucharest: Secondary Schools: no. 62, 67, 78, 169, 279, „Avram Iancu”, „Sf. Constantin and Elena ”,“ Luceafarul ”,“ Pia Bratianu ”,“ Titu Maiorescu ”,“ Principesa Margareta ”,“ Liviu Rebreanu ”, as well as“ IL Caragiale ”National College

In Alexandria: Secondary Schools no. 5 and 7, "Stefan cel Mare" and "Mihai Viteazul"

In Slatina: Secondary Schools no. 1 and 3, "Nicolae Iorga", "Eugen Ionescu" and "Constantin Brancoveanu"