Take it serious!
With this project, it is aimed to raise awareness for increased disasters due to environmental/climate changes, foster a “disaster management” culture in Europe and strength the resilience of communities against natural disasters; support teachers to teach in matters of risk reduction, emergency preparedness and in response to disaster situations; raise awareness of children in the field of disasters and disaster management cycle through ICT-based methodologies and tools; support school authorities to develop disaster management strategy plans at local/regional level; develop a set of innovative educational materials to train the European population on the prevention, preparedness and response to natural disasters; to raise awareness of families and community-at-large about the disaster management cycle; support schools to be better prepared disasters for leading the community about disaster management.
The holistic approach adopted which promotes the involvement of schools, school leaders, authorities, teachers, students and the family is strongly aligned with the priority "Supporting educators, youth workers, educational leaders and support staff" . Also, Take it SERIOUS project introduces the elements of innovation, integrating new pedagogies and approaches, ICT-based teaching and training technologies.
The target groups of the project are: teachers from cross-curricular disciplines, students aged 10-13, school authorities, families, local/national authorities and community-at-large.
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