The agenda 2030‘s goals of sustainability – their significance and realisation in European countries. Erasmus Project

Project Title

The agenda 2030‘s goals of sustainability – their significance and realisation in European countries.

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: Gender equality / equal opportunities; Energy and resources; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

The “Agenda2030” adopted by the United Nations in 2015 contains 17 development goals for sustainability. From these, we have selected the following sub-goals for our project together with our partners:
1. Gender equality
2. Responsible consumption and production patterns
3. Health and Wellbeing

Participating schools:
– Zespół Szkół No. 5 im. Aleksandra Fredro, Wrocław, Poland
– Deutsche Schule Helsinki, Finland
– Liceo “E. Fermi ”, Salò, Italy
– Niels Stensen School Schwerin, Germany

The students involved in the project were around 16 to 18 years old and were studying in grades 10 to 11 of the secondary school. Four meetings were planned to take place over the two-year project period. Because of the corona pandemic and the resulting several weeks of school closings in spring 2020 in all schools, the last, final meeting in Schwerin, Germany, unfortunately could not be held either on site or online. An extension of the project was not possible for organizational reasons. At the school locations in Wrocław, Helsinki and Saló there were joint work phases over a period of five days. Around 8 pupils and 2 teachers from the partner schools traveled to the project meetings.

During the project, the participants not only got to know the 2030 Agenda better, but also recognized the relevance of the selected sub-topics in their home country and beyond in a comparison of European countries. To do this, the students first researched the status quo in their countries at their own school. They collected information, interviewed the relevant institutions and learned about the regulations. In addition, some tasks were processed that were sent in advance by the host schools in preparation for the project meetings. During the project meetings, the results of these preparatory tasks were presented, contrasted, compared and discussed.

The content-related work during the project meeting was varied through a wide range of activities and methods. Among other things, workshops, lectures, exercises, conversations and discussions with representatives from universities and companies as well as company and city tours were carried out. During the first three project meetings, the students created a variety of materials, such as posters, presentations and videos. At the last joint meeting, all topics should be taken up again and processed, bundled, summarized and put together into a manual. Because of the pandemic, no or hardly any regular classroom lessons could take place in spring 2020 and so final bundling of the results was unfortunately not possible.

However, the project could then be transferred to the wider school setting by making the results visible. The topic should be worked on by other classes, grade levels or learning groups from all schools even after the official end of the project. In the long term, the project work has contributed to developing an understanding of the issues dealt with on a national and European level. The students were made aware of the content of the 2030 Agenda and especially of the selected sub-line. They were encouraged to critically question their own attitudes and behavioral patterns, but also those of other people, and sometimes to bring about changes in their personal and school environment.
By working on the project, the students also gained intercultural and regional knowledge and they were forced to carry out this exchange in the foreign language (English). This enabled them to deepen and expand their knowledge of the foreign language and to communicate with the other project participants more naturally and self-confidently. Through the joint, intensive discussion of relevant topics, the students were able to establish contacts with one another, some of which still exist today, beyond the end of the project.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 86499 Eur

Project Coordinator

Niels-Stensen-Schule Schwerin & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Deutsche Schule Helsinki
• Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace Nr XIII
• Liceo scientifico E. Fermi