Sustainable food culture: from the past into the future Erasmus Project

Project Title

Sustainable food culture: from the past into the future

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: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Environment and climate change; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

The Erasmus + project “Sustainable food culture: from the past into the future” is an educational project based on the need for five European educational institutions to facilitate the inclusion in schools.

Teachers of the institutions participating in this project (Spain, Portugal, Poland, France and Croatia) have in their classrooms a lot of students who feel excluded from the education system (students with special educational needs, victims of gender violence , immigrants, from areas at risk of social exclusion, …) and, worried about this situation, they consider it very important to make changes in the education system to allow them to advance in their academic and personal training (developing the basic skills). The first step to achieve this is to make schools an attractive place for students, where it is evident that the contents learned in class are necessary for life, whatever the professional output they expect for their future, but above all, a place where they feel important and participants. A common theme (food) has been chosen to unify all project activities, without losing sight of the proposed objectives:

Objective 1. Promote the inclusion of students at risk of social exclusion (through activities that arouse in these students the interest in studies, whatever the situation in which they find themselves: social marginalization, gender inequality, disability, special educational needs, …)
Objective 2. Help students acquire and develop basic skills and key competences by an attractive and interesting way for them (Promote healthy lifestyle habits)
Objective 3. Modernize schools to make them more attractive and useful for our students (open centers that offers resources that students do not have in the areas where they live)
Objective 4. Facilitate access to Europe for students in disadvantaged areas (Give them the opportunity to acquire the key competences and contextualize the
contents learned in class applicated to Cultural heritage, Health and wellbeing, New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses)
Objective 5. Use mobilities to import and export what we know and learn from other school (about inclusion, basic skills, European cultural heritage,…)

Approximately 3000 students will participate in this project, as it will be considered as a center project and work in all classrooms. Students who will participate in the mobility (4 students from each country in each mobility) will be between 14 and 17 years old, with special educational needs of any kind: talented students, learning difficulties, particular social or cultural backgrounds, etc., whose results academics are not as good as one would expect after receiving all the help that institutions can provide (additional and specific tuition, additional materials, flexible groups, private programs, …).

The methodology that will be used will be eminently practical, with activities focused on the student environment, taking as a common theme food, since three of the schools involved in this project (Spain, Portugal and Poland) have already worked together on a previous Erasmus project and they discovered that this topic, so fundamental for the development of the students, allows to work all the objectives and priorities of this project. There will be activities within the classrooms, but they will also work outside them, involving the entire educational community and companies and entities in the area. All the activities that will be developed will aim to promote social inclusion, support people in the acquisition and development of basic skills and key competencies and increase the social and educational value of European cultural heritage. Improving communicative competence will be also worked by practicising in real communicative situations using English as the the common languages of the project.

With this project, the five institutions involved expect the following results:
1. Development of new educational methodologies that favor social inclusion
2. Improvement in the academic results´ of the students involved in the project
3. Include in our schools the European dimension of education

About the impact envisaged and finally the potential longer term benefits, we consider :
1. Our project can contribute to reduce early leaving statistics in specific target groups of students (with special educational needs, victims of gender violence , immigrants, from areas at risk of social exclusion, …)
2. We will develop new and motivating learning methodology in favour inclusion.
3. There will be an improvement in our students´ basic skills and in their academis results
4. The Integration of students will be favoured by the design of multitask activities
5. Companies and local entities will participate in the curricula of our schools.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 135240 Eur

Project Coordinator

IES Santo Domingo & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Tehnicka skola i prirodoslovna gimnazija Rudera Boskovica
• Lycée Hôtelier International de Lille
• Agrupamento de Escolas de Pinheiro
• Liceum Plastyczne im. Piotra Potworowskiego w Poznaniu