Our Students Keep Active about Reducing Recycling Reusing Erasmus Project

Project Title

Our Students Keep Active about Reducing Recycling Reusing

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 Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; Pedagogy and didactics; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

Background
The primal ideas for the project OSKARRR result from the thought to have students from different learning levels, cultural and socio-economic backgrounds work together in a project that is forward-looking. It dealt with recycling and the adherent management of resources. In the course of events all project partners have developed teaching units. These teaching units and the corresponding material is made available and can be used and refined.
Goals
The goal of the project was to transmit basic competences, including innovative methods especially to students with learning difficulties in a sense of lifelong learning. Through motivating approaches the discrepancies resulting from working with students from different learning levels was counteracted. Like this the skills of all students were strengthened according to their capabilities.
The disparities were levelled, the strengths of the individual supported and the weaknesses reduced so that students with deficits could gain more self-confidence and everyone was able to increase their social, media and language competences.
Basically three partner schools participated in the project.
Istituto di Istruzione Superiore “a. Cesaris” (Technical grammar school in Casalpusterlengo, Italy)
LYCEE PRIVE TECHNOLOGIQUE ET PROFESSIONNEL SAINTE CECILE (Private school for health, education and social professions in Albi, France
Wilhelm-Normann-Berufskolleg (vocational college in Herford, Germany)
The project OSKARRR was divided into three workshops concerning the topic recycling and a final conference for documentation and evaluation. Every transnational learning activity was prepared by all project partners so that during the conferences the prepared contents could be presented and analyzed in order to develop teaching units (modules). The project’s results were presented to the public (local and regional politicians, press)
1. Reduce
Laboratory experiments to save resources through treatment and preparation of old oil
Visit to recycling plant
Guided tour through the science museums in Milan and Genova
Project presentation to the mayor of Casalpusterlengo and press
2. Recycle
Preparation of a travelling exhibition “Recycling projects in the partner countries” as posters
Workshop on “Recycling design”
Developing and building furniture from discarded cardboard and jeans
Presentation to the county council and press
Vernissage of the travelling exhibition through the county councilor
3. Reuse
Questionnaire “Waste of food and packaging”
Workshop “sustainable snack” made from regional products in reusable packaging
Reuse of materials in general, example titanium at Airbus Toulouse
Presentation of results to the mayor of Albi and press
The project activities were planned to be approachable for everyone. The topical focus were oriented on the participants’ personal experiences and developed from there. Through practical experiences that could be gained in e.g. laboratory experiments, workshops and visits to companies the project OSKARRR contributed a major part towards the future oriented, professional and sustainable demands young adults have to face on their way to become EU citizens capable of acting.
Aspired results and impact
Didactically edited teaching units were developed. The teaching unit’s main topic is environment protection and the material focuses on enabling students to act responsibly with resources. Operational recommendations of action concerning environment protection were developed and.
The challenge to work in a team cooperatively solving problems will result in an increase of motivation. The participants gained certainty in working with and handling innovative and modern technologies and methods.
The exchange of experiences on a professional and a personal level formed the basis of understanding international points of view and helped the students to clarify and understand European and global structures. Working on this project and the topic of environment protection and sustainable solutions has sensitized students for the topic and has resulted in an increase of their professional competences concerning the project’s content.
The presentation skills have improved by showing project results in public as well as in print media, on the radio, online (social media).
As long-term benefit content-wise a comprehensive analysis of “recycling” took place and will continue.
On the educational level students with special needs could be supported and widen their view.
Concerning different learner-oriented methods, the activity-oriented work with all the products that were produced and the electronic media use included in the project motivated the learners.
On the social level, the project work concentrated on the equality of opportunities respectively compensation of disparity and was able to include learners with different social backgrounds.
On the European level, participants opened up and became more capableof changing their points of view.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 59745 Eur

Project Coordinator

Wilhelm-Normann-Berufskolleg & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Istituto di Istruzione Superiore “A. Cesaris”
• OGEC LYCEE SAINTE CECILE