Learn from the past to build a greener future. Erasmus Project

Project Title

Learn from the past to build a greener future.

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; Social/environmental responsibility of educational institutions; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

The project “Learn from the past to build a greener future” has been created as an answer to more and more urgent need of reacting to climate change. It is mainly based on the current situation in energy and its traditional sources in order to find and implement new, ecologically-friendly alternatives. Project partners have noticed that in their countries fossil fuels, especially coal, play an important role in energy system. And it is still difficult to be replaced, either because of economic factors or the social ones. The latter being hard to deal with without unemployment, social uncertainty and anxiety. Therefore, the main objective of the project is to provide its participants with deep knowledge of mining, its history, economic bacground, culture and traditions based on this industry. Thanks to the project activities the students will be able to collect data about mining, energy sources and climate change, present it in a professional way, analyse and compare with others. It will lead to an increase in knowledge, skills and competence. What is more, it will provide the students with the tools enabling them to act in a wider perspective than school or family. Consequently, project participants will be able to become engaged into pro-climate actions, educate their surroundings about the topic of energy and climate change, the possibilities of regeneration of former mines and the surrounding areas into proffitable enterpreneurship, finally protest for the care of climate and environment. Additionally, the project participants will polish their presentation skills, fluency in English, as well as social skills such as: communication, negotiation, teamwork, work to deadlines.
Project partners come from 6 countries: Poland, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia and Turkey. All schools are general education secondary schools. Thus, students aged 15-19 will take part in the project activities together with teachers of English, Geography and Science subjects. The project will be abundant in activities, which are going to be as follows. Short-term students meetings will be organised by each partner country (6 alltogether – 3 per year). Every meeting to be attended by 4-5 students from each partner school accompanied by 2 teachers. The meetings will focus on project work, exchanging information collected in advance, visiting places connected with project topic, such as mines and power plants (also the green ones), as well as discovering culture, traditions, history and geography of the hosting country. Undoubly, the perfect opportunity to explore the culture will be accommodation with hosting families. Another important type of project activity is local ecological actions, lectures and visits to places connected with mining and sources of energy. Local actions will cover education campaigns addressed to local communities promoting knowledge about harmful influence of burning coal on the environment, eco-friendly sources of energy and possibilities of replacing coal with less harmful energy. Moreover, there is a lot of concept work planned in the project such as: collecting data, preparing presentations, recording videos.
Local participants of the project will include: other students and teachers in partner schools, parents accommodating students during project meetings, finnaly local organisations supporting the project, such as universities, mines, power plants.
The projects includes various results so that it can reach the biggest possible audience. Therefore, a You Tube channel is planned to be opened, which will work as a journal of the project meetings and other activities, it will promote it world-wide through the use of short recordings showing project meetings, local activities and all project work. Additionally, eTwinning will be an important platform of dissemination of the project. TwinSpace of the project will be one of its results as it will include the reports from project activities, all the presentations prepared, photos and meeting diaries. Another project results will be: project magazine, published 4-5 times a year in a form of PDF presenting project work in the described period of time. Finally, the local actions themselves will work as project results as they will be supported by a lot of materials such as leaflets, posters or social media posts, which will be traceable and easy to collect and present afterwards.
The project is expected to have a huge and long-lasting impact on partner schools and local communities. Local project actions will influence the way people think about energy, its sources, their drawbacks and benefits, and the methods of replacing them with “green” alternatives”. Also, noticeable impact on students and partner schools is anticipated. Therefore, a raise in awarness of ecological problems, changes in behaviours and attitudes towards climate change.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 197543 Eur

Project Coordinator

Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace im prof. Zbigniewa Religi w Gilowicach & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Agrupamento de Escolas Alexandre Herculano – Porto
• Namik Karamanci Fen Lisesi
• Srednja ekonomsko-poslovna sola Koper
• Colegiul National Pedagogic “Carmen Sylva”
• Istituto d’Istruzione Secondaria Superiore «Sebastiano MOTTURA»