Climate Challenge in Construction Erasmus Project

Project Title

Climate Challenge in Construction

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; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

The aim of this project is to raise students’ awareness of how we as European citizens have already been taking and are going to take active measures against climate change in the construction sector by sharing and comparing knowledge of common building procedures, knowledge about material properties and technologies – from a recent but also from a historic perspective – as well as getting to know examples of best practice in the participating countries.

The students will be involved in a complex learning system, in which they are asked to present their obtained knowledge in a virtual climate museum setting. Throughout the project a set of iPads – or similar devices – will be used to enhance the digital competences of the participants. The students will learn in an upfront workshop how to use an application to design images of digital rooms for the virtual climate museum. Apart from operating this app the students have to take many different aspects into consideration to create this virtual climate museum, and the electronic devices will be used as communication tools but also to process information. In each meeting the participants will learn about different concepts, technologies or methods dealing with sustainability in the construction sector and this newly acquired knowledge will then be used to create a virtual exhibition. A few guiding questions offer a brief insight into the planning process the students will be concerned with. Which aspects are worth sharing with a larger community by exhibiting them in a virtual museum? How could a room in a museum look like to exhibit these things? Who is a possible target group and how do we address them? How can we use modern technology to visualize our ideas of a virtual climate museum? How are we going to present our information in an interesting an engaging way? …

In each meeting there will be a group of 4-6 students from each of the participating countries + 2 teachers, who are travelling to the particular meeting, and additionally one or two German teachers, who do teacher training and who should get an insight into the planning and organizing of international projects. The number of national students and teachers involved might be bigger, depending on the activity and the capacity of the partner school.

The main activities are connected to the gaining and sharing of information using different research strategies, e.g.: by looking at sights and places connected to the project in each partner-country, by listening to lectures or guides, by searching the internet, and by dealing with expert knowledge on particular topics at different levels. This information will be processed by the students to present it to each other and to a larger community. The students will also gain practical knowledge in workshops. Furthermore, the idea of job shadowing among the teachers is as well part of the project. One of the major activities will be the creation of the virtual climate museum – so the students will learn how to use a drawing app to create virtual rooms and create an exhibition space. The participants will be able to extend their individual competences and social skills in quality and in quantity throughout the project.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 149633 Eur

Project Coordinator

Max-Born-Berufskolleg & Country: DE

Project Partners

• INSTITUTO DE ENSEÑANZA SECUNDARIA GENETO
• Donegal Education and Training Board
• Nyköpings gymnasium
• MALTA COLLEGE OF ARTS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY