WHAT A WASTE Erasmus Project

Project Title

WHAT A WASTE

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

Project Summary

The schools of Lituania, Slovakia, Italy and France wish to build a partnership as part of a project about Sustainable Development and environment issues whose major themes will be the study of the waste problem, the recycling sector and the protection of the environment.
The starting point of the WHAT A WASTE project is based on a triple observation :
– The environmental emergency, along with the waste problem that will lead the students to become conscious consumers, adopting new behaviours, learning to make appropriate choices and eco-friendly decisions.
– the learning difficulties of some young students, the students who drop out of school, those who attend classes but who are invisible, as they no more feel involved or really concerned.
– the need to develop innovative and modern learning methods using ICT.
Through this project, the students will develop skills in Science, Langages and Technology, thus enabling them to understand the consequences of human activity, the spread of the waste and the waste processing as well as their individual responsibility as citizens. The urge to behave as enlightened and responsible citizens by participating in civic and social life is also one of the goals of the project.
Finally, the WHAT A WASTE project calls for creativity, critical thinking and problem solving skills so as to cooperate and concretize ideas to protect the planet, and aims at replying to these observations and needs.
The project inputs:
1 – The project gives young dropouts the opportunity of a social inclusion by exchanging through digital and physical means with other European partners. The goal is to motivate them with a different learning method, away from the traditional classroom, to value these students and to involve them into a project based learning (PBL) so as to give them appetence for their job as learners.
2 – Associate three schools of ultra peripheral regions of Europe so as to reinforce the feeling of young citizens living far from continental Europe to belong to UE.
3 – Develop innovative practices and skills in the digital and ICT field, use learning and training tools
for the creation, use and exchange of digital documents. The associated eTwinning project will be the platform for the collaboration, creation and sharing of intellectual productions, common thoughts and actions carried out. The students and teachers will move about freely in this secured space, accompanied by an eTwinning Ambassador of the Erasmus+ project. The project includes the creation of tutoriel forms, the use of video-conferences, the creation of an interactive map of the sites where illegal waste dumpings are located, videos, presentations, posters, augmented reality documents, digital quizzes, an internet site.
4 – Promote the students’ creativity by giving value to the waste collected on the
seashores and the hiking trails, transformed into pieces of art that will be subject to real exhibitions in each partner country and virtual exhibitions online (Twinspace and website) collecting all the artistic creations.
5 – Environmental goals: the environmental challenge associated to the problem of household waste which triggers off pollution is at the chore of the project. This theme fits into the 2020 etwinning guideline whose flagship issue is climate change and environmental challenges.
The Guadeloupe archipelago has also decided to reach zero waste by 2035.
The idea is to educate and inform on the waste problem, to model its evolution to measure the consequences and to fing out the ideas and solutions that emerge in the different partner countries and regions. Institutional partners are willing to cooperate on the environmental branch of the project ( region, department, DEAL,…)
The aim is also to have an individual approach in adequation with the problem, to be able to compensate the energy and carbon consumption produced by this project, for example. Visits of waste reprocessing sites as well as interventions in schools on environement protection awareness for a eco friendly behaviour are planned.
The schools located in island regions are particularly concerned by the problem because of importations and exportations of goods and waste that derive from these goods. A campaign of awareness and a festival of sustainable development will complete the project. The activities of the project will be led hand in hand with the sustainable development supervisor of each school.
6 – The opening to international of the schools involved in the project will naturally make sense.
7 – Knowledge of the rights and obligations linked to the media through a common charter.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 2250 Eur

Project Coordinator

LGT BAIMBRIDGE & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Zakladna skola s materskou skolou Demandice
• College Texeira Da Motta
• Joniskio “Ausros” gimnazija
• ISTITUTO PROFESSIONALE DI STATO PER I SERVIZI ALBERGHIERI E DELLA RISTORAZIONE SANDRO PERTINI
• Lycée général et technologique Félix Proto