Sustainability – everyone’s responsibility Erasmus Project

Project Title

Sustainability – everyone’s responsibility

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Energy and resources; Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage

Project Summary

Sustainability everyone’s responsibility is a two-year long cross-curricular project with sustainable activities. The curriculum-based project grew out of the identified need to grow and develop “sustainable world” that benefits us in the way it improves the quality and sustainability of life at schools. It is certain we cannot continue to consume non-renewable Earth’s resources at the current rate. The crucial is the need to educate people from the young age.

The project brings together teachers and students from five different European countries (Finland, Poland, Portugal, France and Croatia) in learning to think globally and work on activities that contribute to the community’s well-being. Our main aim is to integrate topics about sustainability throughout the School’s curriculum in a holistic manner.

For the purpose of efficiency, we have made a detailed list of monthly activities and equally distribute them among all partners.

Activities are divided into 5 categories:

Renewable energy activities that include researchers on renewable resources (wind energy, solar energy, geothermal, biomass) and visits to Hydropolis (Polish environmental education center), Museum of water, windmills, geothermal power plant, hydropower, solar house, Aamutuuli (first Finnish daycare center with eco/energy goals Swan label). Each of the partners will introduce the use of one source of renewable energy through different activities.

School and local community eco-energy activities are practical activities that will make schools more sustainable. The activities also include awareness campaigns at schools and community.

CLIL activities will have as a result cross-curriculum lessons in English that will be the part of the curriculum for a new school year. They will also include job shadowing as two schools of five are already experienced in CLIL method.

Design & Technology activities cover hand-on work engaged with a new technology (new ICT tools, Apps, testing different communication programs, making models, brainstorming solutions, making and using VLOGS)

Cultural activities stimulate interest in European culture, contributes to innovation and creativity. Students and teachers will explore the cultural heritage of included countries.

Students will play the active role in planning, implementing and reporting the activities by using the latest IT-technology and eTwinning platform.

Besides activity-based, child-directed learning and peer learning methods, our Finnish partners will introduce us to a method called ryhmäytyminen in Finnish, which means, “Grouping in order to validate the School-culture“. Through it, students and teachers feel the belonging to the entity – not just one class or friend-group. This feeling creates the positive circle of trust and increases the education results.

Partners will also build sustainable green walls at schools as well as use web tool GeoGebra to make calculations on how smart grid technologies and using renewable energy can lead schools towards sustainability.

Project Website

https://twinspace.etwinning.net/70353/home

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 134091,48 Eur

Project Coordinator

Osnovna skola Pantovcak & Country: HR

Project Partners

• Puolimatkan koulu
• Escola Básica e Secundária Tomás de Borba
• Collège Edouard Herriot
• Szkola Podstawowa nr 10