Implementation Day 7
Day 7 – Wednesday 25 February
Written by training team 🇪🇺
A day focused on energy, both literally and metaphorically!
After spending time with yoga activities, this time, more demanding when it comes to physical moves, and a closer focus on movements that directly raise the heart rate, we moved on to the more metaphorical or rather, physical aspect of energy, that being sustainability.
Bobbie, using a presentation, covered important aspects and tips of how organisations like ACPELIA, ensure projects are implemented sustainably, including but not limited to
Green travel and its importance
Using digital technologies (such as screens and projectors, using features of USB-C, where any phones can output video nowadays)
The complete avoidance of materials for numerous activities
Implementing learnings with culture (such as a notable pfand competition in a previous project he took part in)
Yet one of the most important aspects of it is raising awareness of carbon emissions, as such participants calculated their own carbon footprints using
https://www.footprintcalculator.org/home/en
as well as per group, where you can calculate carbon footprints for Erasmus+ projects specifically, based on a previous KA2 project called DigitechProject at the link below
https://www.digitechproject.eu/co2calculator/
You may access the entire presentation used by Bobbie in the link below
While the project automatically included sustainability at its core, with specific recycling bins and even teams during the project dedicated to separating these bins, the minimal use of materials, and even then, only recyclable ones, the concept was, of course, still foreign to most participants. Vienna itself takes much more care of sustainability than all local areas of each of the organisations in this project. As such, Stephanie led us to exactly where all the materials we have been going this whole time.
This was at Mistplatz Hernals, just a five-minute walk from the accommodation. Participants had a tour of the plant and learned how items are separated into numerous categories.
As for the final activity of the day, this was one full of energy.
Based on the learnings in an earlier session, focusing on both
The complete avoidance of materials for numerous activities
Using nature as a direct teaching tool
The first short game was the energy pulse game, where participants, in 2 lines hold hands and have their eyes closed. Then when the pulse makes it to the end, by squeezing each other's hands, participants run to catch a totem, which in our case was a towel.
A second energetic exercise was the tingo tango game. In two circles, participants once again holding hands jump around in circles. Each person has a designated partner in the other group. On the facilitator's signal, everyone moves around and searches for their partner. When they find them, they quickly kneel or squat together. The last pair to kneel is out of the game. This activity encourages movement, quick focus, and most importantly, teamwork
The last activity, an obstacle course. As this activity took place in Clemens-Krauss-Park, we leveraged the use of the obstacles present in the park and used it two split participants into to teams, and competing against each other to see who makes it to the other side first. This activity marks the second activity that directly uses competition for teambuilding, an important aspect not only in team work, but general exercise. In short, gamifying exercise is an important aspect, something even tech companies with the Apple Watch and android equivalents directly use.
As photos do not do this activity justice, check out the video montage of these activities below!