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Please describe the motivation for your project and explain why it should be funded. For the third year in a row, according to a World Economic Forum survey, climate change is the biggest problem affecting the world. There is no time left to fulfill the gap and highlight the unbreakable bond between educational development and a sustainable learning environment. With this project, we want to empower students with skills, attitudes, and behavior so that they can find a way to become actively involved in their community. We need to train environmental entrepreneurs that responsibly make green lifestyle choices. Students need to develop at schools, and build in their homes, a critical and reflexive attitude towards climate change. Students need to have a proactive role as they need to do their bit in the battle against climate change. There is also the need to develop their leadership skills and student' voice as they need to be able to sensitize others about environmental issues. We all need to develop a sense of responsibility to change our habits and act together because the future of the Earth and our survival depends on it. Through this projects students will gain skills how to design, organize and implement an action plan on diverse school issues. They will learn how to implement scientific method not only in school's science projects but in everyday life, in every research they will do in the future. They will measure the pollutants that are contributing to the cause of global climate change in a very interesting, interactive and engaging way. They will do it for different EU locations: mountains, plains and seaside, extremely hot, continental climate and ever-cold climate countries, inside glaciers and in the ocean. Students they will also act locally in their schools and homes by reducing plastic and become aware about the presence of a large number of micro-plastic particles in everyday products. Students will conduct a scientific study on these pollutants and their effect on climate change, biodiversity and local environment, they will also make an info-graphic to show their results. The activity will result in OER tutorials in order for all interested teachers to repeat it in their schools. Throughout the project students and teachers will share their knowledge of how all pollutants are contributing to climate change and how we can save our planet by being responsible from a young age. This project is crucial for the students' futures as we want them all to grow up to be environmentally responsible, to improve their leadership qualities, critical thinking skills, scientific skills, language skills and self confidence. We strongly agree with the words of Barack Obama: "Our generation's response to this challenge will be judged by history; for if we fail to meet it boldly, swiftly and together, we risk consigning future generations to an irreversible catastrophe."( UN Climate Change Summit 2015)