IGOR

Our team, Klaudija Gašpar, history teacher at O.Š. Antuna Kanižlića and Igor Štavlić participated in an education on promoting Active Citizenship through Young Work on the island of Veli Iž from September 29 to October 6, 2023. During the training, there was an excellent working atmosphere and extremely motivated and proactive participants. The selection of topics and the methodology of the education implementation were excellently prepared and conducted...🙂

We improved our knowledge and exchanged experiences related to the functioning of the European Union, European values and fundamental rights promoted through the European Charter of Fundamental Rights, and for the purpose of promoting Active Citizenship through Young Work. Furthermore, we dealt with logical errors in reasoning, methods of detecting fake news and deliberative democracy and its methods. Through the above, we strengthened our skills of critical thinking and media literacy.

IGOR, Lifelong Learning Cenre in Nature, is a project partner together with project partners from seven EU countries, namely: Fedactio (Belgium) VitaTiim (Estonia), Prizma Association (Croatia), Ottovolante Sulcis (Italy), Young Folks (Latvia ), Tavo Europa (Lithuania), Splora (Spain).

The project is co-financed by EU funds from the Erasmus+ program.

On September 9 and 10, 2023, a preparatory visit was held and, together with our partners, we developed an education program called "Civitas: Promoting Active Citizenship through Youth Work 2023", which will be held at the end of September at the DKC School of the Prizma Association in Velo Iž . The topics of education will be active citizenship, European values and work with young people. IGOR is a partner in the project...

Natural Building implies the use of local, natural and recycled materials whose production has a low ecological footprint and does not require a high proportion of industrial processing of materials. The most common building materials are straw, wood, stone, earth, brick, hemp, sheep's wool and reed. Natural Building takes care of energy efficiency by using renewable energy sources for the functioning of buildings, relying on a rich construction tradition and modern green technologies.
During May, June and July 2023, a hobbit house was built underground. The built hobbit house has a massive organic wooden structure with wooden cladding, layers of waterproofing and a triple drainage system. The front wall of the hobbit house is made of straw bales plastered with lime plaster on the outside, the interior with clay plaster, and the carpentry is made of recycled ship hatches. The floors and terraces are made of massive blue stone, the roof covering is an extensive green roof, and a raktena stove was built for heating. The hobbit house was designed by the British designer Matthew Holmes.
Igor Štavlić is one of the participants who successfully completed the 5th Academy of Natural Building in 2023 at the Recycled Estate educational center in Vukomerić from the ZMAG association.
All programs took place under the professional guidance of our teachers Kristijan Perlić, Matko Šišak, Jakov Radošević, Goran Brumić Mex, Matthew Holmes and Mihael Stošić.
We worked, we built, we studied, we celebrated!
Thanks to the entire professional team for their excellent leadership. Thank to my team of students of the 5th Academy of Natural Architecture and the new friendships made. Great experience…

Photo: Matej Marjanović and Ana Kolarević
More about it: www.zmag.hr