CHANGEONS L’IMAGE DE LA CHAUVE-SOURIS ET AGISSONS POUR LA PRESERVER ! Erasmus Project

Project Title

CHANGEONS L’IMAGE DE LA CHAUVE-SOURIS ET AGISSONS POUR LA PRESERVER !

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 : Strategic Partnerships for school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Environment and climate change; Creativity and culture; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

CHANGE THE IMAGE OF THE BAT AND TAKE ACTION FOR THE PRESERVATION!
The image of the bat can be favourable or suspicious depending on the country. Victim of prejudice, it is sometimes associated with the myth of vampires who have ability to morph into animals, including bats. For example, it inspired characters such as Dracula the vampire. It also refers to ghosts, death and disease. Because of its strange appearance and nightlife, this flying mammal is often persecuted by humans.
Bats play an important role in the ecosystem balance by contributing to the regulation of insect populations. Unfortunately, in cultivated or inhabited areas undergoing deforestation, many species of bats are gone. Some, fortunately, are impacted by restoration plans or enjoy a protected status, particularly in France (Ministerial Decree of 17 April 1981).
The project objective is to educate students and the wider public to protect endangered species, including bats. The project will involve students aged 14-18 years in three schools in France, Romania and Turkey. Various activities will be implemented: work on cultural representation of the bat in the three countries , population census (number and species), knowledge about bats , exhibitions and creating a spectacle with circus arts : scriptwriting , directing, creating sets, costumes and music and the performing achievement in different representations (one will be adapted to an audience of visually impaired) . Project activities will be mostly integrated into the regular activities of schools and programs include courses that take the project as support learning. This project will implement competencies in communication skills, languages, biology, physics, information and communication technologies (ICT) and in sport. This innovative interdisciplinary learning will increase the motivation of students and teaching teams and will then , through dissemination actions (exhibitions and artistic performances ) raise public (teaching staff and non-teaching institutions , other students participating establishments not directly to the project , parents and the general public) to preserve biodiversity through the example of the protection of bats. At the end of the project, cooperation activities will be continued and the partners will collaborate on other projects.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 90000 Eur

Project Coordinator

Etablissement Public Local d’Enseignement et de Formation Professionnelle Agricole de RETHEL & Country: FR

Project Partners

• ISTANBULLUOGLU SOSYAL BILIMLER LISESI
• COLEGIUL TEHNIC GHEORGHE CARTIANU