Do! Learn! Be sustainable! Erasmus Project

Project Title

Do! Learn! Be sustainable!

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: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

The name of the project is “Do! Learn! Be sustainable!”

This project was aimed to help teachers and children from different European countries to keep in touch and motivate them to learn about and understand what sustainable development is, as well as to expand their understanding of the concept. The aim was also to improve their English language skills and ICT skills. Different methods were used throughout the project. Drama and arts allowed the children to express their ideas creatively. Through entrepreneurship education, the learning experiences were expanded to include project management and the value of work. Learning by doing helped the students put the theories into practice.

Children and teachers came from different parts of Europe: Finland, Italy, France and Spain. Participating schools were all public schools but there were differences between them in the number and age of children.These differences brought us a rich diversity of ideas.

Sustainable development is currently one of the most important challenges in the world. We approached this subject by dividing it into four sections: cultural, ecological, social, and economical sustainability. One section lasted one semester, and each partner school was responsible for coordinating the activities during this section.

During these sections the following activities were:

Preparing tasks:

Project website
Finland was responsible for creating and updating the project website https://dolearnbesustainable.com/.
All the final products were uploaded to the project website.

Project Logo: Do! Learn! Be sustainable!
Children designed a logo to be used on all documents/work prepared by the Project ‘Do! Learn! Be sustainable!’ and on the Project website.
In each school there was a logo competition for the project. The final logo was chosen in Italy.

Mascot
Each school chose a mascot and wrote every day happenings to the diary. In Italy, we changed the mascots and each school got a new mascot.

Launch Day
Each school organized an official Launch Day for the whole project in their school.

Activities:
The descriptions of the paths are found on the website: https://dolearnbesustainable.com/.

Cultural sustainability:
Italy was responsible for coordinating the activities:
Cultural path
Food path
Musical path
Literary path
The first project meeting was held in Frosinone, Italy.

Ecological sustainability:
France was responsible for coordinating the activities:
Recycling path
Growing path
Transportation path
The second project meeting was held in Vigy, France

Social sustainability:
Finland was responsible for coordinating the activities:
Team path
Fitness path
Cooperation path
The third project meeting was held in Nivala, Finland.

Economic sustainability:
Spain was responsible for coordinating the activities
Consumption path
Footprint path
Sharing path
Conclusion path
Because of the Covid-19 restrictions the final project meeting in Sant Joan d’Alacant, Spain couldn’t be arranged.

The desired impact was to improve the awareness of sustainable development and the ways of living sustainably in everyday life. The future of the planet will one day be in the hands of the generation we are educating. Through internalizing the goals of sustainable development they can make a difference for our own countries, Europe, and the world.

Project Website

http://dolearnbesustainable.com

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 94716 Eur

Project Coordinator

Kyösti Kallion koulu & Country: FI

Project Partners

• Istituto Comprensivo Statale 2° Frosinone
• Collège Charles Péguy
• IES LUIS GARCÍA BERLANGA