Pour Un Monde allant Vert : laissons les enfants faire. Erasmus Project

Project Title

Pour Un Monde allant Vert : laissons les enfants faire.

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 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Environment and climate change; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education

Project Summary

The ability of the European Union (EU) to successfully face the challenges of competitiveness and growth depends largely on the dynamism of the entrepreneurial spirit. Practised in the school environment, entrepreneurship arouses the desire to learn in the young, increases their motivation and encourages academic perseverance in them.

Alongside this, environmental education for sustainable development must be an important part of children’s basic learning programme, from an early age right up to the end of their schooling, to give them the necessary knowledge and methods for them to relate to their environment, and to behave in a responsible way.

Faced with these pedagogic and educational challenges, schools from 6 European towns (including 2 twinned) have decided to come together through an ERASMUS+ partnership. They have worked together on the environment protection topic by proposing an innovative project which have called for entrepreneurship, and thus contributes to the EUROPE 2020 initiative.

Our area’s diversity has allowed our pupils and their families to open their eyes to the beauty and assets of European landscapes, and the environmental, economic and socio-cultural problems that go with it. The pupils were first led towards a global overview, then called on to act at a local level by setting up entrepreneurial projects. They suggested products, services or events for their local community and the other partner schools, and contributed to the protection and safeguarding of our planet.

Our schools are signed up for the international programme for Education in Sustainable Development for Eco-Schools. They have worked successively on six main themes: food, biodiversity, waste, water, energy and solidarity. For each activity, the pupils have developped different values and entrepreneurial qualities such as self-confidence, perseverance, initiative, creativity, a sense of responsibility, autonomy and a team spirit.

Research for each of these themes were a source of apprenticeship and enable dthe pupils to acquire knowledge, skills and behavious that can be applied across all academic subjects. Reading and writing, as well as the basic skills in maths and science were the root of each learning experience, and have served the project.

Other key skills (defined by Parliament or the European Council), such as communication in foreign languages and digital competences have been developped and evaluated by certification during the running of the project.

The pupils themselves have been the main actors in this project, and have developped new skills and are more fulfilled and better armed for success.

The teachers and assistant staff professional profile at the schools also was reinforced. They have set new methods in place and have gotten used new tools, which is in keeping with the transition called for by the ‘Rethinking education’ initiative.

The educational teams hope to share their good practices: all the products and educative resources were made freely available on a platform dedicated to the project, and easily available from the respective schools’ internet sites. https://www.greenerworldchildrenact.com

By adopting new eco-citizen habits and new attitudes, our schools have reduced their impact on the environment and made financial savings.

This project has allowed new bonds to be created and a better cooperation in schools as well as with local partners. Bridging the gap between two worlds – that of schools and that of business – with apparently very different objectives has brought benefits to both sides.

Each partner school has seen an increase in their international openness and a development of their European identity; their image will undergo a positive evolution. The twinning between towns has been revitalised .

To conclude, the project was the first, but certainly not the last. It has been an essential step in a partnership which is intended to be long-lasting. A second partnership on the topic of sports will be submitted for 2018/2020 as the Olympics and the EU values are very close.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 149305 Eur

Project Coordinator

ECOLE NOTRE DAME DES ARTS & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Utenos mokykla-vaiku darzelis “Varpelis”
• Zespol Szkol w Kraczkowej
• COLEGIO SAN JOSÉ DE CALASANZ. ALGEMESI.
• 13th Primary School, Chalandri
• ISTITUTO COMPRENSIVO GIOVANNI XXIII TERRASINI