On the trail of a sustainable community in food production Erasmus Project

Project Title

On the trail of a sustainable community in food production

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 vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Environment and climate change; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Agriculture, forestry and fisheries

Project Summary

The project was a research into best practice of environmental issues, sustainable development and thinking in each of the participating countries. The main objective was to find out the links between food production in the EU and the European strategies for sustainable development.

The basic purpose of the project was to train individuals in environmental and sustainable development and thinking, approaching with respect and understanding of the different partner countries way of dealing with the topic. The students gained ownership and recognition of the natures richness and diversity in relation to protect the nature from further disasters.

The projects aimed at:
– Developed equality and shared values in activities that improved critical thinking
– Strengthened key competences in VET
– Developed institutional partnerships supporting the set up and implementation of an internationalization strategy of VET learners and apprentices

Teachers and students worked and exchanged teaching and learning methods/ideas. The result was presented digitally, and creative work was done not just with the school partners, but with local authorities/institutions (NGO’s) as well, to raise awareness for our environment and start focus more on sustainable development and thinking. This was achieved by developing a pedagogical base that included reflections and suggestions for active methods that are invaluable for improving the key Lisbon skills, such as: learning to learn, interpersonal, intercultural and social skills and civilian skills.

This was achieved by addressing the following topics:
– Environmental and sustainable thinking and development
– Water resources and organic nutrient cycling
– Biodiversity, energy and waste
– Zero miles food
– The Ecologic and ironic man’s footprint

Ceuti municipality entered the project as an associated partners. Ceuti were involved in a local project “the Ecologic and ironic man’s footprint”, which was a part of this project too. Viborg municipality became a partner in the project and contributed with knowledge.

The specific goals of the project were:
– Encouraging the establishment of sustainable development and thinking
– Focus on environment and climate change
– Implementation of the project as a goal and complementary tool to develop the understanding of agriculture, forestry and fisheries among the participants
– To promote entrepreneurship education
– To increase students’ awareness of social integration
– To promote the personal and professional development of students to become an asset among European citizens
– To encourage the learning and sharing of foreign languages ​​through new technologies.

The main target group for this project was students who are the owners of the future. Therefore, all our activities were student oriented and were performed with their participation. The purpose of the activities was to enable the students to gain knowledge and skills that they could use in the future.

Therefore, the 7 partners in the project disseminated the gained knowledge and involved the students in activities about the measures around environment and sustainability translated into practice, it is estimated that 168 students and teachers benefited directly from the activities.

Our partners represented diverse social and economic backgrounds and a diverse collection of communities from across Europe. By working together to achieve our goals of environment and sustainability, we succeeded in showing our students, parents, staff and others how people from different parts of Europe could work together on our environment and create more coherence to the European citizenship.

The project’s method was based on the concept of interdisciplinary teaching in order to improve the quality of the education. We aimed to approach key issues from different disciplines such as biology and the environment, thus providing a more comprehensive understanding of environmental issues in a European context. In order to be able to assess the impact and ensure a correct development of the project, both formative evaluation types as well as summative ones were used along the way.

we expected a strong collaboration between the institutions, municipalities, district governorships, district education directorates and NGOs during the preparation, implementation and sustainability of our project. Local authorities, organizations and institutions in all participating countries were invited to learn about the project and its results.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 175739 Eur

Project Coordinator

Asmildkloster Landbrugsskole & Country: DK

Project Partners

• Escola de Capacitació Agrària d’Amposta
• Istituto professionale di Stato per i servizi alberghieri e della ristorazione PAOLO BORSELLINO
• FELIPE DE BORBON
• ASOCIACIÓN PARA LA PROMOCION DE LA FORMACIÓN AGRARIA, ALIMENTARIA Y MEDIOAMBIENTAL, EUROPEA – ESPAÑA
• Srednja gradbena, geodetska in okoljevarstvena sola Ljubljana
• VIBORG KOMMUNE