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From 6 to 12 October 2019, 16 teachers and educators from Malta and Cyprus participated in a series of actions dedicated to ESD & Marine Litter, in the framework of an Erasmus supported KA1 week-long course organized for the 2nd time by MEdIES. The participants had the opportunity to be acquainted with various educational tools, follow lectures, participate in hands-on workshops, do a series of field visits including beach clean-up and monitoring and, finally came up with their own projects to sensitize their target groups on the issue of marine litter. The sessions took part in various places in the historical and the merchants centre of Athens, in MIO premises, the Hellenic Centre of Marine Research and included a visit to the Temple of Poseidon in Sounion as well as a day-trip to Aeginal Island.
The course was evaluated in its totality through anonymous online questionnaire that revealed a high level of satisfaction (4 on an 4 point scale), while the vast majority declared they would absolutely recommend the course to a colleague. Still, there is some room for amedments in the course's design: Most trainees asked for more workshops and hands-on sessions (compared to the theoretic ones) and declared that participants from other countries would have enriched the course's implementation. Additionally, some participants asked for cultural "orientations' or guidelines to be included for a future course.
View some snapshots from the course at our facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/MEdIES.net
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