Ecological transition and exchange of good practises between the Beaujolais and Tuscany areas Erasmus Project

Project Title

Ecological transition and exchange of good practises between the Beaujolais and Tuscany areas

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: Creativity and culture; Regional dimension and cooperation; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

In our days of climatic and environmental emergency, European consciousness calls us to mutualize our efforts to implement concrete actions to fight against environmental degradation. Under those circumstances Europe, thanks to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable development, has the major responsibility to initiate a global process paving the way for a more sustainable society.
Our project aims at making the younger generations aware of those facts, a real concern to them in so far as they will be the actors of the future European society.
An exchange will make it possible to put up together innovative actions to curb the effects of over-consumption and reduce the impact on the environment.
At a time when Europe faces a serious sanitary crisis obliging France and Italy to close their borders, we believe that it is our duty, through pedagogical actions, to weave again the necessary links for a good understanding between the people when the current crisis is over.
The objective is to reinforce the commitment of the younger generations on the theme “co-operation for innovation and exchange of good practices” through concrete actions to preserve both our environment and our health such as :
– Fight against the excess of household waste in daily life through the intervention of “L’Epicerie des Colibris” an organic grocer’s shop, but not only that …(SDG*13)
– Make one’s own hygienic products,
– Use recycling process in particular through a clothes exchange system, (SDG8)
– Buy local, buy products from local farms,
– Move about with low carbon emission transport, visits will be made by train, bike, boat or on foot,
– Observe eco-systems with the visit of the “Parc des Oiseaux” a bird park in Villard-lès-Dombes,
– Understand the concept of eco-dwelling with the visit of the district named “Confluences” in Lyon (trip by boat).
Our students will have to organize workshops using French and Italian language to study prevention and information. The subject matter will be to explain the good practices to come closer to a zero waste zone in our everyday life. Talks on that matter will be made by specialists and practical workshops will be carried out to make products used in everyday life.
The idea is also to emphasize and exploit common cultural assets between the two schools.
The activities scheduled by the Castelfiorentino school are based on the objectives of the 2030 agenda. They will find a source of inspiration in the writings of the Italian writer Italo Calvo, and especially in his book “Morcavaldo or the seasons in town”. Several activities in link with extracts from this book are scheduled. The story entitled “Where the river is bluer” will be our basis to work on the theme of water with an outing on the Elsa river to evoke the problem of water pollution (Agenda 2030 SDG 6 and 11)). With the story “La villegiatura in panchina” we will study the environment of Castelfiorentino.
A meeting with the town people in charge of the green spaces is foreseen, as well as a visit to the town kennel. An outing to the geothermal energy museum of Larderello will be incorporated in this program. Other activities in link with the writer are programmed : meeting with the manager of a commercial center on the theme of food safety, creation of natural products, etc…
This project involves forty students (20 French and 20 Italian), second and first formers, born in 2004-2005, and their teachers (3 French, 3 Italian). Two Short-term exchanges of groups of pupils and one Short-term joint staff training events.
We will travel of course by train if only to remain in keeping with our preoccupation but also to adopt a more inclusive approach from a cultural point of view.
Our project enhances and diversifies the already quite wide offer of activities proposed by the lycée Aiguerande concerning various problems of our current society, world and other cultures.
It also provides another language in the frame of the linguistic exchanges which have been organized so far almost exclusively with Anglo Saxon countries.
It tackles a theme which is extremely meaningful for our students : sustenable development and eco-responsibility.
We hope that this project will bring among our students a sense of brotherhood following the coronavirus pandemic which hits us so seriously and also an awareness of the necessity to care for our resources locally around us and also in Europe and will develop in them the sense of eco-responsibility.
* Sustainable Development Goals

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 52359 Eur

Project Coordinator

Lycée Polyvalent Aiguerande & Country: FR

Project Partners

• ISTITUTO STATALE DI ISTRUZIONE SECONDARIA SUPERIORE “FEDERICO ENRIQUES”