PLASTEAM

The Final Ceremony and Award of the winning videos was an enjoyable half day event that was held in the Netherlands, in Echt Connect College, on 30 March 2023.

The agenda of the event included a key note speech on current challenges around plastic pollution and ways to motivate our students on the topic, followed by a presentation of PLASTEAM and its main outcomes, a series of experiential workshops, and the announcement of the winning video of the international video contest.

Short list of the nationally awarded videos that reached the stage of the international Final Contest:

Romania: Scoala Gimnaziala D.R. Popescu, Nojorid and, Scoala Gimnaziala Nr. 30 of Timisoara (secondary)

Greece: Themistokis Primary School

Malta: St Francis School, Victoria, Gozo (primary), St Theresa School, Kercem (secondary)

Netherlands:  Team anti-plastic game from Jacinta in Breda (Primary) & Team Team ‘Kenya from Wings’ in Roermond (Secondary)

The three-member jury of the international contest awarded the videos of St. Francis Primary School of Gozo (Malta) and the Scoala Gimnaziala Nr. 30 of Timisoara (Romania). View moment of the official announcement, by the Jury chair, Ms Irene Fichera from Effebi (VIDEO FILE)

Congratulations to the winning teams and to all participating students for their motivation, good mood and creativity! We know very well that squeezing the students’ work of several months into a 1.5 minute video was not an easy task for them. We are hopeful that the participation to the contest motivated them further to make changes in their school and in their lives to reduce plastic use.

Secondary education – Team ‘Kenya from Wings’ in Roermond:
The students collected plastic bottles that otherwise would have been thrown away. The money form the deposit of the bottles is collected and donated to poor people in Kenya.

Primary education – Team anti-plastic game from Jacinta in Breda:
The students developed and made a game. At the beginning of the week you take a card with a challenge, at the end of the week the students discuss how the challenge went. The challenges are all about the use of less plastic, re-use plastic or use an alternative. VIEW VIDEO (with permission to publish)

Will you join us in the project’s Final Event, where we will announce the winning School of the PLASTEAM Contest?

Agenda of the half day event (30/3/2023, 13.30-17.30 CET) here

Registration: here

Online broadcast (starts at 16.15): here

On 9/2/2023 NEMO held a PLASTEAM event for teachers and students. The participants engaged in two of the STEAM-Box activities; Make something wearable from plastics and Labels in plastics and other products. Also the teachers and students were introduced to the PLASTEAM Plastic contest and received information on how to  work on a plastic related problem in their school, and how to enter to the contest.  

Earlier this year Eurodimensions held an event for teachers related to STEM promoting also the PLASTEAM project, through a 2-day event. PLASTEAM and specifically the STEAM-Box was presented by Marika Huber with a detailed PPT and various videos that highlighted the impact plastic has on the environment, green washing and the forceful impact that daily items (such as clothing) have on our environment.

The teachers were stunned with some specific aspects related to green washing and the origins of microbeads. The following day, teachers were introduced to the Technology and the Environment with hands on activities by Kevin Spiteri, an Education Consultant for Further and Higher Education.

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On 18 January 2023 the Multiplier event was organised by Themisoklis School, Greece. The event was attended by more than 100 participants, including students, teachers and their families. After presenting the project, and some of its Key outputs, including the STEAM-Box, the 6 nominations’ for the video contest were presented and the winner was announced.

Congratulations to the winning team of 6th grade from Themistoklis that will take part in the final contest in Holland.

View video with shots from the event.

On 24/11/2022, EFFEBI Association hosted a training event presenting the main project outcomes and deliverables: the PLASTEAM App; the Recommendations for teachers & students to make their school “plastic-free”; the Contest, and the STEAM-Box, a virtual box with didactical activities about plastics.

The event was addressed to teachers and trainers, aiming to inform them of the project’s tools and to share tips on how to implement these in their everyday school life. The participants had the chance to try themselves one of the STEAM-Box activities (the Rs of Sustainability), through which students can familiarize with the various Rs approach and reflect on how they can contribute to tackle plastic pollution.

During the event, the teachers walked the shoes of their students and shared thoughts on the relevancy of the project and urgency of such activities, so to make pupils agents of change already at a very young age.

On September 27th, within the 4^th transnational meeting of PLASTEAM, a 90 min webinar was held, aiming to inform interested educators on how to use the STEAM-Box educational material. The webinar was attended by 33 participants joining from the partner schools and beyond. It was recorded so that it can be used in the future.  

Watch the VIDEO 
Find STEAM-Box material in many languages: ENGLISH, ROMANIAN, DUTCH, GREEK,  ITALIAN.
Download the PPT that outlines the material, activity by activity.

The 4th transnational PLASTEAM meeting took place on 27-28 September 2022 in an hybrid format: It combined a face-to-face event in Timisoara, and an online interaction with those partners that could not travel to Romania. The partners discussed the progress in the project and especially its next steps, which is the Competition and the STEAM-Box Labs.

This condense practical document identifies a series of challenges that students and families may face in their efforts to minimize their plastic footprint, and for each challenge there is one or more recommendations how to overcome them.

Download the document.