Eco friendly by Europe Erasmus Project

Project Title

Eco friendly by Europe

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: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

Our project “Eco-Friendly By Europe” arose from the shared need of a group of centers from different European countries to generate in students a European social conscience with respect to taking care of the environment. As such, we propose to develop a common strategy on a European level, starting off from the hypothesis of checking if it’s possible to generate a social conscience with respect to taking care of the environment, researching and comparing different approaches from the respective centers related to the subject, as well as sharing a common workplan that helps to preserve European biodiversity.

Our principal objectives are to bring awareness to the students of the challenges of bringing sustainable development to the world, acquire experiences and basic abilities in the use of ICT tools, improve language abilities in a foreign language for both the students and the teachers, develop the acquisition of these 21st century competencies in the students, learn best practices from other school organizations that enrich the practical experience of each school center, and drive the development of awareness for European citizens.

In order to achieve such objectives, schools from Croatia, Italy, Greece, Portugal and two Spanish centers will participate together combining mobilities of the participating organizations with research and reinforcement activities from the learnings in each of the chosen countries making use of the eTwinning platform both before and after the activity, thereby involving a larger number of students and teachers on a local level and encouraging group work.

Four students and three teachers from each school center will participate in each of the planned mobilities, chosen based on criteria previously shared with the educational community, and will have a significant role in the different activities that are planned, both in the pedagogical and cultural preparation of the mobility as well as in developing the activities on a local level, and the diffusion of the learnings and the created output.

The results, impact and benefits hoped for from this project are a major opening for the European Union. Students will improve their capacity to work in teams, observe and recognize the steps to follow to do research, identify problems and find solutions, strengthen their communication abilities and their cultural conscience on a European level. Professors will increase their knowledge in didactic methodologies and teaching materials, improve their knowledge of another language (English), and at the same time become more familiar with best practices from other centers that will permit them professional enrichment, among other benefits. At the same time, it is hoped to achieve an increase in the involvement of families in the activities of the center and a better opening of the center to other centers in the area, sharing their experiences.

To do so, the project will be evaluated regularly via questionnaires to each of the involved participants in such a way that we have qualitative and quantitative information about the degree of achievement of the objectives and will carry out a diffusion plan directed at the education community via meetings with the different sectors in which they will provide information about the projects and the different actions that they will develop and which will subsequently increase on a local, national and European level via the web page of the project, social media, press releases, and informational brochures.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 168300 Eur

Project Coordinator

CEIP Tagoror & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Agrupamento de Escolas de Muralhas do Minho
• CEIP ALFÀNDEC
• Istituto Comprensivo Borsi
• 102 Dimotiko Scholeio Athinon
• Osnovna skola Glina