Nature Our Wealth Erasmus Project

Project Title

Nature Our Wealth

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: Environment and climate change; Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

Project Summary

Context and objectives
Sustainable development, access to employment and education of disadvantaged students are 3 priorities of the EU. Our project: ” Nature Our Wealth” (NOW), aims at gathering these 3 themes through a 2-year Erasmus+ partnership. We plan to study the relation between man and nature, observe and share good practices in the field of sustainable development and explore the jobs linked to the green economy.
Participants
This goal will be reached through international comparisons led by the 3 partners scholls: Fenix Kultur-och-Kunskapscentrum in Sweden, PubliczneLiceum Ogolnoksztalcace nr V w Opulu in Poland, and Lycée Chrestien de Troyes in France. Each scholl is located in a geographical area presenting different natural backgrounds and a diversity of practices and jobs related to sustainable development. On the other side, the 3 scholls have similar pedagogical concerns and social situations, as well as a common approach of project management.
Activities and methods
Our project is based on recurrent activities during each mobility , between mobility and a permanent work on etwinning platform.
-study of nature and conferences to learn and share knowledge
-meetings, interviews, photos, films and videos, in order to realize a good practices guide to sustainable development.
-meetings, interviews, photos, films and videos, in order to realize a guide to job opportunities in sustainable development
-artistic creations to promote an alternative vision of nature and raise awareness on sustainable development
Between each mobility, a photo exhibition is organized at every season to compare the climate variation and maintain a link for the partners beyond the different journeys.
The methods of the project NOW rely on a series of experiences in the field: our students will meet people from conpanies,associations,universities,public or private agencies invested in sustainable development. They will make interviews, articles, photos, videos in order to realize own-produced digital guides. A major importance will be granted to a multilingual collaboration ( common work in english, and initiation to other foreign languages at the beginning of each mobility), and to a cross-cultural approach ( comparing and sharing good practices). This 3-members partnership opportunity is given by the Erasmus+European Program.
Impact and results
The tangible results of our partnership are: realization of a good practices guide to sustainable development, relization of a guide to job opportunities in sustainable development, photos exhibitions,artistic creations,conferences and meetings, website NOW and a sustainable development day in each school.
The intangible results are: skills improvement for each participant in biology, chemistry,climatology,geography,economy,political sciences,management,arts, and of course foreign languages. Due to the multidisciplinary aspect of our project, the participants will learn how to conncet these fields and increase their expertise of sustainable development. Transversal skills such as IT will also be improved throughout this project.Besides,open-mindedness,autonomy,team collaboration,personal motivation and a new approach of nature will be strengthened during the project.
Finally,a better knowledge of jobs and professional requirements will allow the students to get prepared for their future profession,or help the teachers to play their role as careers advisers.
The dissemination of the tangible results will be done through multimedia realizations spread at a local and international level, and maintained thereafter through the Internet site and other digital media.
The project will also create long-term partnerships with local institutions, as well as between the 3 members of this Erasmus+ partnership.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 64340 Eur

Project Coordinator

LYCEE CHRESTIEN DE TROYES & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Publiczne Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace nr V w Opolu w Zespole Szkol im Prymasa Tysiaclecia Stefana Kardynala Wyszynskiego
• Fenix Kultur- och Kunskapscentrum