Sustainable me, sustainable we Erasmus Project

Project Title

Sustainable me, sustainable we

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: Teaching and learning of foreign languages; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

Motivation:
As educational institutions, we see it as our task to make young people agents of change and shapers of their better future. All three participating partner schools from Spain, Portugal and Germany are therefore committed to the 17 global sustainability goals and want to integrate them into their schools. The project “sustainable me – sustainable we” is based on the basic idea that if everyone first questions the own behaviour, a change in the behaviour and values of the community can be achieved on a global and European level. Another key point is the realization that we in Europe all have the same problems and challenges and that these can only be solved through cooperation. In order to achieve a specific, measurable and comparable basis for the project, we have decided to concentrate on UN-Goal Nr. 12, namely “Sustainable consumption and production”.
Objectives and results:
The objectives to reach are:
Short term: We want to create awareness among our students that they are the factors of change and understanding that environmental problems are not only local but European problems. We also aim at improving our students’ language and intercultural skill and media competence.
Middle term: Teachers and institutions will find and test innovative practices, strategies and methodologies to make our schools greener and more sustainable and to influence the behaviour and consumptions habits, lifestyles of our students. The results of the project will influence our day-to-day school life and become part of our schools’ programme.
Long term: The partner school will develop joint research and awareness-raising teaching activities and build a bank of resources and create an international network to promote the SGDs.
Activities and participants:
During the project we have planned four mobilities, three of them are teaching & learning activities with our students and one shall be a teachers’ workshop on how to implement the topic of sustainability in teaching and school life.
All activities shall contribute to the realization of our final products: the learning-street, (an informative parkour with QR-codes and posters distributed in the school building) and the school garden. The participants are the teachers who are responsible for the project and a selected group of students belonging to the 1st year of bachelor (in Portugal and Spain cases) and the commerce college (Germany), all of them between 16 and 18 years old. Most of the students come from a disadvantaged family or have an immigrant background.
The structure of every visit will be the same, however, each organization has another focus: Portugal – sustainable tourism, Germany – sustainable consumption and economy; Spain – sustainable use of water. There are meet activities in form of digital rallies with ecological focus designed by the local students. After that, excursions to sustainable city projects, NGOs, companies, or social projects and excursions to companies or institutions of the municipalities linked to the topic take place. Nationally mixed groups work on saving the results for the learning street, also by documenting small hands-on activities. The programs include a visit of a national park with topic-related activities and of course a day for evaluating the results of the encounter through the learning street.
eTwinning:
For long-term teaching assignments, the preparation of our students/staff in form of online-activities, the documentation of the learning process, the creation of preparatory online learning activities, the project results and the discussion of the participants before, between and after the transnational meetings we use the Twinning Platform and the Twinspace. This proposal involves the creation of a new project on the eTwinning platform with the “Sustainable school, sustainable city” https://live.etwinning.net/projects/project/205768)
Assessment:
The success of the project will be measured by recording the increase in the number of students participating in voluntary activities, the improvement of the grades of students involved in the project especially those with a lack of motivation to learn, the improvement of their competence level before and after the project and by conducting surveys of students, teachers and families about the impact of the project and evaluating the students’ performance in the workshops developed LLT activities.
Dissemination:
At school level, there will be created a physical space for the dissemination of the project to spread the results among the staff and future students. At the local level, the public will be invited to the events where students inform about the project. It will be advertised in the local media and local institutions will be visited during the mobilities. At national level, the project will be published in the Erasmus results platform, notes will be inserted in the institutional social networks and it will be presented in good teaching practices seminars.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 98550 Eur

Project Coordinator

IES CARLES SALVADOR (ALDAIA) & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Berufskolleg Deutzer Freiheit
• Agrupamento de Escolas Póvoa de Lanhoso