On 2nd February, 2022 our gymnasium signed the agreement with the National Agency of Lithuania and became the accredited institution of the "Erasmus +" program for the period 2022-2027. "Erasmus+" is a support program of the European Union which provides learning and development opportunities for people of various ages, statuses, and professions, as well as the opportunity for various organizations, institutions, and institutions to implement projects that meet the criteria of the program.
Our gymnasium has been following that path purposefully, consistently and decisively since the beginning of the program i.e. since 2014 when the first Erasmus + project “Values in Education, Teenagers in Action” was started to be implemented (2014-2016). The same year, another project "Ecological literacy" started (2016-2018) which was also successfully completed. At the beginning of the new 2019 academic year our gymnasium got involved in the new international activity - project "Folklorica" which was prolonged for one year due to the global Covid-19 pandemic and ended in the spring of this year. Quite recently, on the 1st December, 2021 our gymnasium started implementing another international project "Sustainable Environment for Sustainable Schools" the purpose of which is to raise students' awareness of the topic of sustainability, encourage them to independently choose appropriate behavior strategies, predict the effects of their activities on the environment and actively work towards environmental preservation.
What are the advantages and benefits of the granted accreditation for the institution? First of all, being approved as accredited institution, the gymnasium secured permanent funding and participation in the international projects until 2027. Not only 5-10th graders will be able to participate in the projects but also gymnasium’s teachers, administrative staff, psychologists, child support specialists. Job shadowing visits, training courses, experts’ seminars, consultations-all those activities will not only improve the teachers' general competences, knowledge of foreign language, but also being a good example of sustainable behavıor for their students will help them to form their ecological values and change students’attitude towards the environment.
We wish for the entire gymnasium’s community great success implementing the main goal of the "Erasmus+" program i.e changing the behavior of each of us in the context of harmony with the environment and becoming more conscious, responsible and ecologically literate citizens.
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