Engineering Energy Vehicle for European Environment Erasmus Project

Project Title

Engineering Energy Vehicle for European Environment

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Teaching and learning of foreign languages; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

CONTEXT
Three vocational and polytechnical engineering secondary schools from France, Spain and Sweden design and built together one single and joint car vehicle in this project called EEVEE for “Engineering Energy Vehicle for European Environment”. The project is cross-curricular by including academic subjects in Math, Sciences and Technology and foreign language besides the vocational sections of automotive car mechanics degrees. It combines vocational car mechanics and engineering classes with general subjects. The targeted car vehicle is planned at human size for one person with one seat and steering wheel and run by environment-friendly energy. Therefore, it motivates students to involve in cross-curricular activities in a transnational peer work in English as a foreign language for all participants. Etwinning is used as a common platform online to share and to interact towards the common goal.

OBJECTIVES
– Horizontal priority: educate the upcoming generation of workers to a sustainable environment for their professional choices,
– Schools and VET: reinforce transversal skills in English, in digital numeracy, with increased European citizenship and critical thinking as a consequence,
– Schools and VET: develop math science and technology skills for their future qualification as a technician or an engineer,
– Schools and VET: professional development for teachers, to include a European project into their pedagogy in their subject, by exchanging best practices among peers

TARGET GROUPS
– Students aged from 15 to 19 from vocational schools in car mechanics and general education secondary schools, majoring in Engineering fields.
– Teachers from vocational schools and general education secondary schools, to use their foreign language skills in English for their teaching, doing so exchanging best pedagogy practices in peers in Europe.

ACTIVITIES
– Online eTwinning platform to share contents from classes by students in their home schools, along the three years of the project. These activities are in car mechanics, technological fields and math.
– 6 learning meetings for students: 2 per year over 3 years, 2 per country between 3 countries. Each learning event hosts 12 international students with local students. They collaborate on-site in workshops in car mechanics, technological fields, math centred on car themes, physics, English.
– 3 transnational teachers’ meetings: one per year and per country. They meet to finetune the agreements and project coordination. Teachers in car mechanics also follow together teachers training sessions in their fields.

RESULTS
– A vehicle, fueled by hydrogen and an electric engine, which moves in real.
– A public website, giving access to numerous pedagogical resources of collaborations in car mechanics, technology and math. It collects numerous students productions, videos and e-magazines.

IMPACTS
– Increased European citizenship among the students,
– An increased number of non-participant students from the vocational school informed of the potential benefit for their studies and future work offered by the Erasmus program,
– An increased readiness to travel abroad for their work among students,
– An increased readiness to include transnational collaborations in their pedagogy or professional development among teachers,
– Increased know-how for teachers, who can direct their students to have them produce expert videos and e-magazines,
– An increased readiness of schools to develop strategies to offer an international experience to learners and staff, at the school level

SUSTAINABILITY
– Hybrid energy vehicles enter the car mechanics workshops in schools,
– Training to innovative and sustainable fuel energy for cars, for teachers and students,
– More equipment for teaching car mechanics classes, which could not be financed by the school only,
– Cross-curricular activities between the fields of car mechanics from vocational school and general education secondary schools,
– This project is an additional step towards the targeted quality label applied through the call 2020 for “accreditation for schools, Erasmus 2021”, and through the next call 2021 for the “VET accreditation, Erasmus 2021”.
– This project is the first step towards participation in 2022 to the Eco Marathon Shell Competition. The goal is to build a vehicle, which will run as many kilometres as possible with the equivalent of one litre of fuel. It fosters among the young generations research and innovation for more sustainable mobility

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 138177,02 Eur

Project Coordinator

Association de l’Institut Professionnel Lemonnier & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Falkenbergs gymnasieskola
• Colegio Salesiano Santísima Trinidad