Planning of green energy savings in houses Erasmus Project

Project Title

Planning of green energy savings in houses

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Energy and resources; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

We are going to have two schools in this partnership, it is a project what is directly linked to the UN’s sustainability development goals. One school is in the Northern hemisphere the other in Western Europe, both are faced with the same type of consequences in and around the infrastructure. The coordinators have worked together in Spain during an internationalisering meeting, we have met in the Netherlands to discuss, ponder and develop an project idea which will benefit both councils, districts and countries in the future. The practical schools of both countries are training the craftsperson of the future, one that is environmental friendly, innovative and prepared to make the right choices for the planets future.
The Netherlands has worked on Erasmus K2 projects in the past and currently at present with a strategisch K2 (Scool-IT) The objective of this project K229, is generating awareness amongst the craftsmen/woman of the future by incorporating UN sustainable development goals through-out the project. How to improve teaching, motivation, innovation concerning the craftsperson of the future. As teachers we are concerned about what happens with the climate. We must help our pupils to accept that climate change is not going to disappear, thus by promoting cognitive and personal development, in a sense that meaningful learning could stand through collaborative work, problem based learning and service learning strategies. Throughout the project we will prepare teaching strategies in order to provide pupils with active learning, motivating, meaningful and collaborative activities. We want them to acquire tools and working methods that allow them to develop their own innovative qualities not only with the school but also inn the real world. The activities, during the mobility week the groups of 3 pupils will divide the work amongst themselves, they have to make a drawings of mini-house, consisting of 25 m2 in living area, incorporate materials which are as energy efficient as possible, create a 3D model of the mini house in a scale of 1: 100 by using laser cutter and recon Printer to visualize the house.
The participants, 10 pupils will be accompanied by 2 teachers, the pupils will sleep by host families, submerging them in the local culture. Each teacher will have an active role to play, during the preparation period and throughout the exchange week. The impact of this project will be evident in how we face the climate change problems/SDG’s at each school, how the pupils are made aware of their role to play in the future, the stream of pupils who choose a work profile directly connected to the construction world thus decreasing the lack of qualified craftsperson’s within the local community. Long term objectives are quite numerous for example, peer teaching amongst colleagues, work experience exchanges for pupils in trade skill, environmental work ethics linked to the SDG’s.

Collaborative work, solution based learning based upon the worldwide construction dilemmas explored with ICT are central to this project improving levels of skills for employability as also defined important priorities of EU Erasmus + programme. ,
Therefore we framed our project on improving climate change awareness for civil engineering, construction (buildings, infrastructure and industrial) the challenges of enhancing and protecting the environment, like durability, C2C and carbon footprint.

At the same time we want to provide a platform of good practices among teachers in how to integrate climate awareness in our institutions. The school website will be used to disseminate all the activities which are taking place, The transnational dimension clearly adds value in terms of project outcomes; while sharing examples of good practice, the participating organisations will be able to achieve results that would not be reached by organisations from a single country. The project provides the schools and participants with new experiences and adds to their knowledge and practices. The priority of the topic, the transparency of transnational working and recognition of skills and qualifications from the pupils adds value to this project.
Our methodology is based on sharing good practices with each other in an international environment. Teachers and pupils from each school will present their practices on the chosen subjects. The work that is carried out during the mobilities will show the importance of a partnership in different educational countries. After each short-term exchange of group of pupils the host school will receive feedback from the pupils, teachers so that future exchanges are made to measure-fit the needs of what the project requires. The project will provide good practices to sustain quality, innovation and ecological mindfulness in and around the participating schools. By incorporating local businesses in our activities, the flow of craftsmen/woman should be maintained for in the future.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 35688 Eur

Project Coordinator

Ferder videregaende skole & Country: NO

Project Partners

• Fioretti College