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Uniff - United Friends for better Future

By creating this project, we want to give our students possibilities to participate, to be active and find new ways to make a difference - especially to their own lives. We want them to meet their peers from other countries and cultures and to practice their language skills. We need more experience of international projects and we want this project to be a stepping stone towards higher international status for our organizations and permanent international work of high value. We want to tackle racism and prejudices and show our students, that even though we come from different cultures, speak different languages and have different kinds of habits, we're still very similar and tackle with same kinds of problems. Another important concrete objective which we want to achieve, is wider awareness of the joint responsibility as citizens and human beings for the wellbeing of the environment. We want green values to become more actively respected in our organizations. All stakeholders should learn more about the reasons for global warming and internalize their own part in it. We want all stakeholders to take a critical look at their ways to consume and at their carbon, water, plastics and ecological footprints. They should all improve their recycling skills and fight global warming in personal level. Early school leaving, low learning outcomes and marginalization of young people are our common concerns. In our schools, we will start clubs for international project work - in these clubs students can find new friends and make new networks, which can give new content in their lives. Even though our digital world might give people opportunities to have wide international network, for example in social media, the connections and relations can remain very superficial. In our project, the students will get to know each other more deeply and hopefully get friends for a lifetime. When they tell about their experiences to their friends, we will get more interest in international work in our schools and in that way tackle prejudices and racism. In the clubs our students will work in national and also in international groups for example through video conferences, first getting to know each other, then introducing their schools and hometowns, presenting each school's Green Flag principles, discussing environmental issues locally and globally. They will learn more about recycling, circular economy, gain more information about the biggest environmental threats in their countries and practice the means of informing and influencing. During the F2F workshops the students will also get to know nature of these three countries, learn more about nature protection and endangered species and the importance of human actions regarding nature. All outcomes of this project will be published digitally and can be examined by anyone interested.
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