“Ecosystems, water, energies and green jobs” : a global challenge for European youth !” Erasmus Project

Project Title

“Ecosystems, water, energies and green jobs” : a global challenge for European youth !”

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: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

The school dropout is a growing concern in France. Many other European countries such as Spain or Italy where youth unemployment is a great concern, seem to face the same issue. The causes are many and varied. Many of our pupils lack of self confidence and they have great difficulty in thinking about their future. A further well known problem is that women face discrimination in terms of employment opportunities and wages. Studies have shown that these discriminations originate very early in life, especially at school when pupils have to choose their orientation. Girls are often consciously or unconsciously steered towards traditionally « feminised » careers, neglecting emerging sectors such as those linked with digital, green technologies, sciences and so on… On the contrary, if Latvia takes the first place in the amount of high schools and universities and make great effort in order to reach male / female parity, there is a lack of professionals in such spheres as engineering and technologies. On the other hand, taking into account environmental issue and all its potentialities in terms of citizenship, environmental protection, research and development, innovations, economic growth, careers and so on, could be a great tool to become aware of the world they live in, and to give them ambitions.

There are several objectives :
1) Decreasing the early school leaving (ESL) in our communities by improving the motivation of our students towards the Science related subjects and jobs (STEM), especially in the case of students with any kind of disability or disfavoured circumstances, and also to balance the gender differences towards these studies and enhancing their access and engagement to digital technologies and scientific careers.
2) widening horizon by offering our pupils choices and making them discover the different vocational pathways and jobs linked to environment.
3) Increasing our students self confidence and skills.
4) Developing their European civic and social values, throught the respect and knowledge of our different realities and cultural diversity.
5) Improving the conscience of our students, schools and local communities in the necessity of taking care of Europe natural environment and sustainable use of its resources.
6) Promoting critical thinking and a scientific attitude towards the challenges of our society, such as climate change, the energy sources issue, or the abuse of natural resources.

All along its duration this project will be divided in 4 parts, each one corresponding to a specific theme and being supervised by one of the four partners. First part deals with natural ecosystems and their conservation; second part on water, its consumption and treatment ; third part deals with energy resources and their ecological aspects ; fourth part deals with “green jobs”, that is, jobs related with all these environment and sustainability issues. As main products or our project, we include :

1) Presentations of their collaborative works and researches, on the four themes using IT media, videos, posters, brochures, local press…
2) Scratch collaborative serious games
3) Collaborative calendars about environment & energy themes
4) Collaborative board games on water issues.
5) Art installations with recycled materials in schools & comparison of the different recycling policies & « recycling contests » in each schools.
6) 3D or 2D models of energy or recycling facilities
7) Comparison of the different education systems and vocational pathways
8) Collaborative presentation of all the Green jobs encountered all along the project’s duration.

These products will be performed thanks to the following activities such as :

1)Research and practical study of a natural ecosystem : study both biotic and abiotic factors and lab activities.
2) Research of Recycling policies in each country
3) Research and practical study about water : analyze of water through different point of view (chemical, physics, biology, nutrition) tnaks to some lab activities.
4) Research about energy policies in each country
5) Researches & investigations (facts & figures) about green jobs in our neighbouroud

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 98842 Eur

Project Coordinator

Collège Robert Schuman & Country: FR

Project Partners

• IES de Beade
• Ogres Valsts gimnazija
• ISTITUTO COMPRENSIVO G. SEGANTINI