AVATAR Project
Taking care of all vulnerable animal species thanks to an active relationship with nature
2024 - 2026
The AVATAR Project is a collaboration between the Konstantina Filozofa V de Nitra University (Slovakia), the National Zoo of Bojnice (Slovakia), the ZooPark of Chomutov in Czech Republic, INAK (Slovakia) and Vita xxi in Spain.
Working with 5 goals in mind:
- 1. To educate and support primary and secondary education teachers, increasing their awareness in protecting biodiversity.
- 2. To strengthen the students and teachers’ skills in the use of digital educational technologies based on gamification and outdoors learning.
- 3. Through the use of ICTs and social networks we will explain the importance of protecting biodiversity and the environment.
- 4. We will support the sense of social responsibility for the local atmosphere.
- 5. To boost the participants’ critical thinking and their behavior towards reducing the negative impacts on biodiversity.
To achieve this, we have developed three work schedules:
- WP2_ Creating a simulation game combined with outdoors activities(in and out of the sea), and providing lessons, graphics and work guides related to biodiversity and to the teachers’ training.
- WP3_ We will design a series of educational timetables (20) to observe the local biodiversity through an app available in multiple languages and places in several countries, with manuals and informational reports to use it correctly.
- WP4_ They will have a range of activities for the protection of biodiversity, through personal challenges related to the 6 key topics of biodiversity, with educational videos for the creation of an informational database and educational guides for the teachers’ training workshops.
Third international meeting
April 2025
Teacher training
Prague, Czech Republic
- This project is enabling collaboration with Slovak, Czech and Spanish organizations interested in biodiversity education as a tool to bring citizens, teachers and students of all educational levels closer to being more aware of their relationship with nature. The project is currently preparing two computer applications after a first meeting in Slovakia and another in Spain. During the second international meeting in Spain in September 2024, the foundations have been laid for the collaboration with GREFA, the group for the rehabilitation of native fauna and its habitat, based in Majadahonda in the Community of Madrid. All the participating institutions met in Murcia to start the elaboration of educational contents and to learn about the technological and field proposals that will be used in this project.
Third international meeting currently being planned to be in April 2025 at the zoo parc in Bojnice, in Slovakia to work with the first version of ICT tools - apps for biodiversity education and the use of wildlife recovery centers and zoos as educational facilities outside the classroom where one can have a real and close experience with wildlife and at the same time use outdoor educational technology to learn about local and global biodiversity.
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