Climate change – open your senses! Pupils working for sustainability. Peer to peer sensitization: Development of measuring cases for environmental technology variables for use in Schools. Erasmus Project

Project Title

Climate change – open your senses!
Pupils working for sustainability. Peer to peer sensitization: Development of measuring cases for environmental technology variables for use in Schools.

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Energy and resources; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

One of the most important political and social tasks of our 21st century is the desired energy turnaround. The current processes for the provision of electrical energy, heating and mobility are now causing significant negative effects on our global climate and human health, permanently destroying fauna and flora and thus increasing people’s fear of the future. Unfortunately, there are still people, including representatives from politics and business, who want to stick to the previous concept of energy production. In order to convince them that an energy turnaround is long over, we want to develop a measuring case within the scope of this project that enables schools to prove and document the pollution of the air, soil and drinking water with simple aids. The understanding of and interest in environmental policy can thus be significantly enhanced. By the pupils themselves developing measuring cases with appropriate building instructions and learning materials, younger pupils are not only sensitised more to their age, but the passing on of the idea of sustainability is more effective. By allowing other pupils to copy these measuring cases and thus not only to use them passively, all the senses are addressed to the young people. They not only consume ready-made teaching material, but also become active designers of their learning.

An overarching goal is to develop a measurement system in collaborative work that can also be used by other schools. As a first step, however, the project should raise the participants’ awareness of the central challenges of the energy system transformation. As an interdisciplinary, innovative project, it networks environmental technology, physics and computer science and explains practical examples for the implementation of environmental quantities in electrically processable quantities and the calibration of measuring probes. In addition to this raising of awareness among the participants in the project who develop and build the measuring case, the focus is also on the idea of dissemination. It is also the aim of the project to sensitize other people outside the project.

The goal of collaboratively developing a measurement system that can also be used by other schools increases the value and importance of the project in the eyes of the pupils. The result is a modern measurement system with connections to the digital world. The project participants create measurement instructions that support future users of the suitcases in carrying out measurement tasks. All interfaces are disclosed and are designed in such a way that existing school systems can be integrated or combined. The measured data are displayed and stored in different forms.

Before a change in behaviour occurs in each individual, it helps to deal intensively with the problem. A significant increase in motivation can be observed in our pupils, if this discussion is also practical. This gives the learners access to the values, which are often presented in a very abstract and unapproachable way in the media, through their own experience and classification into the order of magnitude of the problem. By creating “instructions for use” for the reproduction of the suitcase, working documents and videos, the project contents can also be communicated transparently and attractively to other pupils. By also training the teaching staff, the inhibition threshold to rebuild the project with one’s own class and to use the work that has been developed is to be lowered.

Pupils from technical high schools (especially those with an environmental technology profile) and their teachers will take part in the project. These are older youths (approx. 17 years old). Five schools from Germany, France, Luxembourg, Austria and Spain will work in multinational groups at four working meetings to ensure that the participants benefit as much as possible from each other’s different ways of thinking and thus develop better solutions.

Many people will benefit from the environmental case, as it can be used both in school directly in class, but also for activities/workshops outside the school framework. Due to the topicality of the topic sustainability, in addition, due to the desire more technology enthusiasm with young humans to reach, the concept of the environmental suit-case is attractive for many participants.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 164882 Eur

Project Coordinator

Lycée Technique d’Ettelbruck & Country: LU

Project Partners

• COLEGIO LA SALLE VIRGEN DEL MAR HERMANOS DE LAS ESCUELAS CRISTIANAS (LA SALLE) SECTOR ANDALUCIA
• HTBLuVA St. Poelten
• Gottlieb-Daimler-Schule 2
• Lycée Hippolyte Fontaine