Green Morning Europe Erasmus Project

Project Title

Green Morning Europe

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: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Environment and climate change; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

Covid health crisis isn’t over yet, but one of the lessons that our countries may already learn from it is the need for increasing European unity. When dealing with global health and/or environmental issues such as climate change, the best answers won’t be national ones : youth of today will have to address those challenges together in the future, at an – at least – European scale.
« Green morning Europe » project combines this aim (collaboration, discussion and searching solutions about our common environmental issues) and what we consider as a great tool to achieve it : radio medium. The synergy created by comparing contrasting cultures will stimulate the necessary understanding and cooperation to support this process.
5 schools will be participating in the project representing different areas of Europe : France, Portugal (Azores islands), Germany, Italy and Estonia. For two years there will be five transnational visits involving about four hundred students and accompanying staff members. Specific attention will be paid to special needs students, who will be involved in the project and, for some of them, in transnational visits.
Even though from geographically contrasting regions, the schools involved in the project are sharing the same needs – all of them tackling issues related to change -, sharing a lot of common environmental issues – transportation of food or the effects of climate change for example -, and already working on radio creation at school as a tool to open their students to the outside. Students and teachers will communicate and create together through the radio medium. Sound clips, reports, interviews, songs, surveys, and programs will be co-produced by the project’s members. The main objective of this project is to produce a long-term radio cooperation between schools from distinct European member states. The final product will be a radio network integrated into the respective curriculae of the participating schools, teacher training colleges, on an open source dedicated website.
The participating schools will be investigating the paths and necessary skills involved in journalism, media in general, through topics for the sound productions or broadcasts related to our common environmental issues (transportation, energy, farming, food, climate change, waste recycling, evolution of the professions in the future…) in order to boost a real international and intercultural dialogue. Radio will enable the use of many communication and cross-disciplinary skills without requiring heavy or expensive equipments, thus mobilising both language proficiency, oral expression, media education, ICT skills, teamwork, autonomy and initiative. The result of the cooperation for the students will be improved skills and consciousness about European citizenship and the necessity of the formulation of common responses to environmental issues, which will be the great challenge of the millenium. The project is also aimed for our students to gain confidence that they will be able to travel, exchange, speak, study, work, in another area than their own. For the teachers, there will be long-term effects : improved skills in sound creation, media education, innovative teaching methods, real consideration of climate issues in education, and special needs students support.
Due to the distance between schools and the necessity for differenciation because of cultural and social differences, there will be an emphasis on blended learning. Integrated blended learning materials will be produced, which can be used throughout Europe. Since the lingua franca will be English, the students will obviously be communicating their ideas on school, local, national and European themes in English during the transnational visits.
Radio is one of the reasons why our schools wanted to work together and to get to know each other better. This media being our common tool and main mean of communication in this project, it will also be the key mean of dissemination of this European project, thanks to our own productions, but also the associated partners, media and radios which will relay our project in the partnership’s countries.
This project will offer all interested parties in the schools (school management, parents, teachers, students, included special needs students) the opportunity to gain a greater insight into and understanding of European citizenship and an increased consciousness that the climate issues are nothing but common ones, and as such need to be addressed together. The European Commission’s goal is for Europe to be the first climate neutral continent by 2050. It is our students who will take the citizens’ responsibilities in this enormous effort seriously and will work together to shape the future. With this project, we want to set them up for this great task.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 181583 Eur

Project Coordinator

Lycée polyvalent Paul Sérusier & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Katharinen-Gymnasium Ingolstadt
• Escola Secundária Domingos Rebelo
• IL POLO TECNICO PROFESSIONALE DI  VENEZIA I.I.S. Vendramin Corner
• Tallinna 21. Kool