The main theme of the Partnership is to promote a deeper understanding of the physical environment in which pupils live. This theme is predicated on the notions, firstly, that an awareness of issues relating to sustainability, conservation, ecology, global warming and renewable resources should be developed at an early age and secondly that such an awareness produces practical implications and outcomes for the wider school community. Pupils will be able to discuss the issues at the appropriate level and offer possible action plans for dealing with these, eventually in a comparative international context. The three years of the project are divided into six periods termed Semesters of approximately equal length. This allows for differences in dates of academic terms across Europe. Throughout the Partnership, led by the Science Education Department at MAKÜ, threads will be followed which develop the Partnership's teaching ethos of encouraging pupils to develop logical coherent thinking.