Launch of the Erasmus+ project "Building an Eco-Friendly Future with Robots – ‘’GREENCODE"
The University of Latvia leads the consortium of 7 partners until August 2025.
LATVIJAS UNIVERSITATE Latvia
UNIVERSITAET MANNHEIM Germany
SCUOLA DI ROBOTICA Italy
Early Years - the organisation for young children Ireland
INSTITUTO POLITECNICO DE VISEU Portugal
MELLIS ED TECH Turkey
SVEUCILISTE U RIJECI Croatia
GREENCODE aims to support and provide training opportunities to preservice preschool teachers in learning how to foster children’s computational thinking skills within the scope of environmental protection and green practices.
Its activities are related to STEM/STEAM areas within the preschool curriculum.
The project results include:
a Digital Handbook about the inquiry-based learning model on how to teach eco-friendly practices using simple coding and educational robotics in early childhood.
a Higher Education Curriculum for the departments of preschool teaching in universities
a Toolkit including lesson plans, an activity book and video tutorials
The first face-to-face meeting of the project partners took place at the end of January 2024 in Riga, at the University of Latvia. The project partners jointly developed questionnaires and a detailed plan for the teacher seminar, as well as the template and structure of the development of teaching materials, a unified style and approach to the development of materials were agreed. The partners reviewed, discussed, and adjusted the project's publicity plan, material development objectives, task allocation and development phases.
The project partners also had the opportunity during the project meeting to visit a Riga preschool educational institution "Nestina" and hear about the experiences of the preschool in relation to the topics and other aspects planned for in the GREENCODE project materials and participate in a workshop in University of Latvia on Virtual and Augmented Technology in Education.
