Vita 21 – Servicios educativos y ambientales

AVATAR Project

Caring for All Vulnerable Animals Through 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.

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.

Second international meeting

September 2024

Mar Menor, Murcia, Spain

This project will allow the collaboration of other organizations and teachers interested in biodiversity and education. Nowadays, the project is in its preparation phase after a first meeting in Slovakia to officially start it and a second meeting currently being planned to be in Spain , September 2024..