360 degrees Erasmus Project

Project Title

360 degrees

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Energy and resources; Environment and climate change; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

“360 degrees” is a collaborative project focussing on environmental education and digitalisation at the same time. Five partner schools are each representing one environmental phenomenon, or “problem”, caused by mankind, that is affecting their local area today. The aim is to raise the awareness in the students and their families for their every-day actions and how they affect people far away and in regions they possibly don’t even know that they exist. Throughout the project, each phenomenon will be presented, studied, researched, visited and documented by students of all schools in thematic blocks of 3-4 months.

Germany, the coordinating school is going to teach about the side-effects of coal mining (both black and rock coal) on their area in the West of Germany bordering the Netherlands and Belgium. This includes the visit of UNESCO world heritage site Zeche Zollverein, as well as the infamous Haibach forest, among others. As a continuing step, the students will learn and research about alternative ways of producing energy.
The Italian school is located on the Island of Sicily where we will focus on waste disposal and recycling. Starting a recurring beach clean up initiative in the local municipality will be one of the actions that will be taking place here.
In Greece on the island of Lesbos, our partner school is very active and experienced in the field of wetland preservation. This is a great chance for the project partners to learn more on water and wetland preservation, especially focussing on the regional example of UNESCO Global Geo Park Kalloni Bay, and then in a second step comparing it to wetlands in our own local regions.
Madeira, Portugal is the location if our fourth partner school and in the block of this school we will be dealing with reforestation. On site, we will be roaming through UNESCO Natural heritage Laurel Forest and identify endemic and exotic species. Furthermore, we will participate in a reforestation campaign by planting endemic trees
Our French partner school represents a completely different area of Europe. It is situated on the island of Martinique, an overseas department in the French West Indies. For us, this partner is especially valuable, because it gives insight into environmental issues that are not obviously visibly in our continental European life. However, we are strongly connected to them: the topic of research in this block will be the impact of pesticides on the local environment and population. This research will lead us to local markets, a fish farm, a plantation, and to many encounters with the affected local population.

In between the meetings, we will be preparing the topics to be focussed on on-site via e-twinning. Each partner is responsible for publishing eTwinning pages to prepare for their topic, in the end there will be the meetings on site. As one of our main goal is to develop digital competences in our students, which are nowadays more needed than ever, there is the goal to not use one online tool twice (if possible), but try to introduce new learning apps and tools which we will all embed in our twinspace. Padlet, surveymonkey, kahoot, mentimeter, tricider, canva, flipgrid, seesaw, peergrade, storyjumper and obviously all the functions the twinspace are only some exampled of tools we are planning to use.

Furthermore, throughout the time phases where we work at local level, we will be taking part or initiating several environmental related activities such as the City biking week initiative, the Global Education Week, Erasmus Days and Cleaning our city.

As a physical final outcome, all the above mentioned meetings and events will be documented by students with the help of a 360 degree camera and a drone, producing the final output, a 360 degree film documentation about all facets of European environmental issues and students’ tipps and suggestions on how everybody in their own daily life can make a change.
The digitalisation skills necessary to create such a film will be acquired by students and teachers throughout the first LTT meeting. However, experts will continuously be available for help and support throughout all project meetings in all countries as well as at local level. The benefit of the 360 degree film is that students from all over the world will be able to not only see but get a feeling of “experiencing” the regions of Europe visited by the participants of this project. Watching the film with VR glasses will intensify this feeling.
The final outcome will be presented in all schools during the Erasmus Days 2022 in an Erasmus cinema for the school and local public in a big audience hall, either at school or in the town hall. It will afterwards be made available online for the broad public.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 167873 Eur

Project Coordinator

Gesamtschule Ückendorf & Country: DE

Project Partners

• IMERISIO GYMNASIO AGIASOU LESVOU
• LYCEE PROFESSIONNEL LA TRINITE
• I.C. Alessandro Manzoni
• Escola Básica 1, 2, 3 / PE do Porto da Cruz