BACK TO A GREEN AND RURAL FUTURE Erasmus Project

Project Title

BACK TO A GREEN AND RURAL 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: Rural development and urbanisation; Environment and climate change; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

The main idea of the project is finding out new ways of developing rural areas in a sustainable way in Ellwangen (Germany) and Espinosa de los Monteros and Medina de Pomar (Spain). These three towns share a rural background and face the same problems of rural depopulation and early school leaving, so this project is a step forward to challenge this situation. The participants will be twenty students who are 15-16 years old and they are in Class10 in Germany and in 4th ESO in Spain.
In a period of two school years, these group of pupils will re discover their rural cultural heritage, learn about sustainable activity sectors organisations in their regions and create think tank to gather and discuss about this information and share it inside and outside their schools.
All these processes will involve skills related to Internet research, to live interviews with actors of rural activity, do ICT platforms such as eTwinning and to disseminate all their results inside and outside their school community. Many of the 21st century learning skills such as collaboration, creativity, critical thinking and technology literacy will also be developed.
It is also important to point out that pupils will also learn to work collaboratively with the schools in other regions of Europe so they will have a wider idea of what rural improvement is and how other European communities deal with the same challenges they have. This sharing of the same situations creates a feeling of transnational solidarity and union.
And finally, the pupils and their communities will know that cultural heritage, job creation, economic growth and social cohesion can walk hand in hand when people with different origins gather and work together with a common objective. This is what the idea of Europe is, isn’t it?

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 82950 Eur

Project Coordinator

IES CASTELLA VETULA & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Hariolf-Gymnasium
• INSTITUTO CONDE SANCHO GARCÍA