Climate emergency in Europe Erasmus Project

Project Title

Climate emergency in 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: Environment and climate change; Social/environmental responsibility of educational institutions; Energy and resources

Project Summary

Climate change is obvious: The local weather changes, the sea rises, the effects on animals and plants in Europe are enormous. In 2019 the European Parliament declared a climate emergency to answer the following questions: How will climatic change and climate emergency modify our future and coexistence in Europe? What can each person do individually or does it need a unified solution?
As members of school communities in different European countries, we wonder: how will our students as future citizens manage the struggle against climatic changes? Will they lead new research for solutions and reach agreements to make the planet a better place and avoid its destruction? These questions reinforce the priorities of our project: Promoting engaging, connecting and empowering young people, since we are convinced that enlightenment, science and sustainable behaviour may be the answer to the environmental and social issues related to climate change. We want to put together the personality of each partner’s European territory with its natural potential and its cultural traditional heritage and let them share experiences and knowledge:
-The Freie Christliche Gesamtschule Düsseldorf is placed in the largest polycentric metropolitan region in Germany with over 10 million inhabitants. Düsseldorf is the largest German city that has declared a climate emergency.
-Institut Tarragona is placed by the Mediterranean Sea in one of the most highly industrialised zones in Spain. Due to some accidents and the growing awareness of the risks of the chemical industry, some citizen and ecological movements, a climatic emergency was declared in July 2019.
-Lyceiparkens skola is situated in the city of Porvoo on the southern coast of Finland, which aims to become carbon neutral in 2030. As a coastal city the state of seas is an important issue and also being the northernmost participant in the project – the trend of warmer winters and their impact.
-Zespół Szkolno-Przedszkolny is situated in the Southern part of Poland, in the Silesia region. The small village has a problem of smog because people heat their houses with coal or rubbish and are not aware about the harmfulness of this, although local authorities have started focusing on this problem. The aim is to learn about more ecological ways of heating and inform local authorities as well as citizens.
Working in multinational teams, students will analyse and compare the situation of the real climate emergency in each country and to find solutions for future generations in different environments. As a result, the students will create an international campaign through advertisements published in a shared Youtube channel about different topics.
Following activities have been planned to reach our objectives, (provide a better knowledge of each territory’s resources, make people aware of the importance of these elements and promote actions in order to foster their consciousness of the exploitation and the urgent preservation):
1 Mobility: Climate change and climate emergency in Europe (Germany). Introduction and urban pollution
2 Mobility: Testing the air pollution, water purity and pollution in forests (Poland)
3 Mobility: Climate emergency in a mediterranean industrial area, national politics and direct experiments (Spain)
4 Mobility: Climate change and climate emergency in Europe. Our seas. Final conclusions and international campaign: advertisement (Finland)
Platforms offered by Erasmus+: eTwinning and the Platform of Results of Erasmus+ Projects will be used as a meeting point among all international participants and the best way of communicating and coordination. They will serve to monitor the mobilities, share any kind of materials and creations related to the project and also to give maximum diffusion to the project.
Experiments, research and conclusions will be shared and integrated in the respective curricula of the four schools using internal communication nets to let the project be known by school communities and families. This also takes into consideration local authorities, press, governmental and non-governmental organisations, universities, etc., with the idea of a general profit and participation. The impact will be measured by monitoring the amount of visits to our net platforms and the interaction, involving families and the rest of the staff in the activities related to the project, measures taken by the school borned from the results of our work, establishing or consolidating relations with local entities and authorities for future collaborations.
The sustainability of this project will be established by the incorporation of the knowledge and experiences gained along the development of the project to our daily learning activity. Each school will collect and share the productions of the different activities done at each mobility and of course, the final result -the campaign on Youtube-, is understood as a real advertising campaign for the general public.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 96458 Eur

Project Coordinator

Freie Christliche Gesamtschule Düsseldorf & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Lyceiparkens skola
• Zespół Szkolno – Przedszkolny w Koszęcinie Szkoła Podstawowa im. Jana Pawła II w Koszęcinie
• Institut Tarragona