BITS OF CYPRUS --- 3rd-9th October 2021

Main objective of the project : Exchange of Good PracticesProject 

Title :  People Organising Redevelopment Technology and Sustainability

Project Acronym:  P.O.R.T.S.

Schools participating in this erasmus+project are

SREDNJA SKOLA METKOVIC

KRALJA ZVONIMIRA 12

20350 METKOVIĆ

CROATIA

GYMNASIO OMODOUS

OMODOS

4760 LEMESOS

CYPRUS

SAKU GÜMNAASIUM

TALLINNA MNT 10

75501 SAKU

ESTONIA

1ST GENERAL LYCEUM OF ARGOSTOLI

4 KEFALLINON AVENUE

281 00 ARGOSTOLI

GREECE

 ISTITUTO ISTRUZIONE SECONDARIA “ENRICO FERMI”

VIA MERINE 5

73100 LECCE
ITALIA

 ESCOLA PROFISSIONAL AMAR TERRA

VERDE

PRACA DAS COMUNIDADES GEMINADAS 1

4731-909 VILA VERDE

PORTUGAL

Schools from six European countries (Croatia, Greece, Italy, Cyprus, Portugal and Estonia) are

involved in this project which focuses on a variety of PORTS, “A place of a collective identity” where everything can start and everything can arrive, where life is punctuated by the cyclical time but also by exceptionality, unexpected, where uses and traditions have developed in the course of the years.

The development of port dynamics is actually based on essential variables, including geographical,

environmental, technological, economic, logistic ones. Hence, a port is a microcosm reflecting life

and a wide range of positive and negative issues.

Nowadays, ports have changed, they are overwhelmed by modernity, everywhere plastic replaces

wood, automation carries more and more pollution, the habitat itself, altered by port activities, collects

blows of a pressing unbridled development.

“P.O.R.T.S.” refers both to the real port, centres of commerce, crucial to the economy, and to the

ability to face the problems and the issues related to it.

"P.O.R.T.S." stands for “People Organising Redevelopment Technology and Sustainability”, that is

the challenge to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all, in accordance with the 2030

Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted at the United Nations Sustainable Development

Summit in 2015. Thus, our schools want to deal with the ports closer to our towns/cities. The best

elements of our ports are intended to build an ideal port, as a prototype of excellence. Port as a city

outpost, a borough, a place to be enjoyed, which also offers situations of sustainability in order to

block out the common idea which considers the port a "non- place".

We aim to promote the acquisition of academic and social skills of our students through the current

vital issue of Sustainability, Redevelopment and Technology. We want to motivate them, in particular those facing difficulties (educational, health, emotional, economic, cultural, social) through a meaningful and concrete learning context which, besides promoting the acquisition of key skills and competences, helps reduce disparities in learning outcomes.

By working in international groups, we exchange our experiences, ideas and create the space and

conditions for creativity, sharing the joy of spending time together with common objectives and

results.

The main objective of P.O.R.T.S. is to motivate students, above all the weakest ones, by dealing with this environmental topic, having in mind a concrete aim: thinking about and designing an ideal 3D prototype “Smart & Green Port” that takes into account the value of ecosystems, as well as the

socioeconomic effects on the surrounding region, that is not a common practice in a         traditional approach to port development.