Biodiversity Education & Awareness to Grow a Living Environment

The overall goal of our BEAGLE biodiversity project is to improve the quality of learning outside the classroom and enhance students’ motivation to learn, so that the capacity of people to live sustainable lifestyles and bring about a more sustainable environment is strengthened. To achieve this the partners developed a range of products: the BEAGLE Observation Project – methodology for biodiversity observations, the BEAGLE website, teachers guide, identification keys, teacher training and a competition.

The eventually choice of six common tree species and their phenological stages achieved this goal. The results of observation (flowering, leaf burst and other phenological events) were uploaded by project participants to the project website: www.beagleproject.org. The website allows users to compare findings and to see how different stages of tree life cycles take place across Europe throughout the year. In addition to the phenological observations the website hosts a number of other resources available such as identification keys to support out of classroom learning, teacher guide in form of downloadable documents and educational activity concerning biodiversity issues and their links with sustainable development.