Eco-friendly schools for a greener Europe: engaging our pupils to protect the planet (2020-2022) Erasmus Project

Project Title

Eco-friendly schools for a greener Europe: engaging our pupils to protect the planet (2020-2022)

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; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

CONTEXT/BACKGROUND
The “Eco-friendly schools for a greener Europe : engaging our pupils to protect the planet (2020-2022)” project brings together two schools from Poland and France around three priorities of the Erasmus+ program : “Environmental and climate goals” ; “Supporting individuals in acquiring and developing basic skills and key competences” ; “Increasing the levels of achievement and interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics”. The main aim of the project is to think collectively about ways to engage our pupils and our schools to respect and protect the planet. Confronting practices, developing creative/innovative/alternative approaches, analyzing successes and failures should contribute to environmental education, a European intercultural approach and a common European citizenship.
The E3P20/22 project should be funded to finance both its management and implementation and secondly two Learning, Teaching,Training Activities respectively organised in each school.

OBJECTIVES
Pupils and teachers involved will follow three main goals : improving schools environment, engaging pupils to academic success, strengthening a European eco-citizenship. It expects individual and collective results for the pupils and for the two schools definitively engaged in an eco-friendly process. This global result should be achieved by working on during and between each Learning/Teaching/Training Activity and making several collective products (studies and publications on water quality, waste recycling, citizen actions…).

ETWINNING
The already created Twinspace will be the main online space to share materials and to work in collaborative activities. It will include tools devoted to online teaching,learning and training during/between Learning/Teaching/Training Activities. It will also be used for students and adults Learning/Teaching/Training Activities assessments. Finally the KA2 Twinspace will allow follow-up and dissemination with products diffusion and information.

NUMBER AND PROFILES OF PARTICIPANTS
The project provides that participants will be teachers/non-teaching staff members and pupils from thirteen to fifteen years old from our two respective schools. Schools gather nearly 1,600 pupils and 150 teachers/non-teaching staff members who will be impacted by the project thanks to a dissemination plan. More than 60 students and nearly 20 teachers/non-teaching staff members will be involved directly participating in project educational activities. Among them 28 students and 7 teachers/non-teaching staff members will travel and discover a new European country during each of the two Learning/Teaching/Training activities and/or during the project management meetings. Traveling participants will be chosen in each school through a committee including teachers and administrative staff. The KA2 project aims to involve students of all abilities : beyond their academic achievements, pupils need to manifest interest on improving their skills, to have an excellent behavior and of course to to be interested in environmental issues.

ACTIVITIES
Each school will organize a six-day exchange of groups of pupils with partners’ delegations of fourteen pupils and three or four adults : C1 Poland (April 2021) and C2 France (April 2022).

METHODOLOGY
The Project Group functions as the coordinating group and is composed of teachers and administrative staff from the two schools. The school partners will be organized in school teams. Two Project Management meetings are planned, at the beginning and at the end of the project.

FOLLOW-UP
Assessments, questionnaires and evaluation of educational activities will allow to report on long-lasting effects with lifelong learning skills, European eco-citizenship and schools environment. Our dissemination plan is built in two dimensions (horizontal with all activities to strengthen communication and dissemination between participants ; vertical with all activities designed to actually reach the target groups, stakeholders and final users) and will use two types of media (traditional media and media created specifically for the project like Erasmus corners in each school, an eTwinning Twinspace, a Facebook page and an Instagram page).

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 46553 Eur

Project Coordinator

Collège Albert Camus & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Szkola Podstawowa nr 4 im. prof. Wladyslawa Szafera w Elku