Bioeconomy4future Erasmus Project

Project Title

Bioeconomy4future

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: Environment and climate change; Energy and resources; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship

Project Summary

We are a Strategic Partnership involving three schools: the Spanish IES José Luis Castillo-Puche as the coordinating partner, the Austrian Bernoulligymnasium and the Czech Základní škola Zlín.

The aim of our ecological Erasmus + Project “Bioeconomy4future” is to achieve a common awareness about the importance of our way of living and its impact on the environment: every single person can make a change, and effects can be enhanced by cooperation.

We’d like to achieve the following objectives:
– Increase students’ commitment to the care and conservation of the environment through simple, concrete actions.
– Learn the core concepts of bioeconomy, waste management and renewable energies throughout a collaborative work among partner schools.
– Use ICT to develop innovative teaching and learning practices.
– Improve linguistic competence.
– Encourage participants to gain an insight into different European cultures.

The project focuses on Secondary school students, who will communicate via ICT, by means of our eTwinning common platform, and work together, using their language skills to put forward their ideas and to compromise.

54 students from 13 to 16 years old will take part in mobilities, but they will be just the tip of the iceberg, as they will act as Bio-ambassadors among their peers, Primary students in other city schools, Parents Associations and Local Authorities. In this way, we will promote active citizenship in our pupils and their self-esteem and inner growth will be fostered by the sense of accomplishment of a very important goal: the spread of our ecological values.

Furthermore, a group of 25 special needs and fewer opportunities students will take part in our project activities, promoting in this way their inclusion and their peers respect to diversity, different social backgrounds and disabilities.

We, as global citizens, must realize that bioeconomy, waste management and renewable energies are global concepts to be tackled locally and individually, and that is why these three topics will be the backbone of our project and our working lines.

Students will participate in the following activities, which will take place in classes of a variety of subjects and in special workshops:

– Creation of a project logo.
– Presentation of partner schools, educational system and cultural heritage of each country.
– Film a videoclip related to Bioeconomy which promotes environmentally-sensitive behaviour.
– Write a Waste Diary in pupils’ family homes.
– Research about how each participant country manages selective collection of waste locally in their town and from a national point of view.
– Celebrate a Bio-Christmas in order to promote a sustainable celebration of this season.
– Take part in a story contest about Renewable Energies.
– Performance of a dramatization of the winner stories, using just waste materials for the setting and atrezzo.
– Repository of Articles related to sustainability.
– Glossary of ecological terms.

Our more remarkable tangible results will be: the project logo, presentations (school and Educational System; Bio-Christmas; Waste Management diary and selective waste collection), Bioeconomy related videoclips, digital publication of Renewable Energies stories, videos of the performance about Renewable Energies, ecological terms Glossary and Repository of Articles and the Scrapbook Erasmus + diary of each mobility.
And the intangible ones: the improvement in participants digital and linguistic competence, the increasement in the motivation towards the daily work at school, the enhancement of the internationalization process of our schools and the knowledge of other countries culture and heritage.

The expected impact will be:

– Internationalization of participating schools
– Improvement in the use of ICT and in language competence
– Development of the level of environmental consciousness in students, increasing their citizens responsibility to care the planet, understanding it as a global problem and also in Primary
Schools, by acting from the basis of the Educational System.

Regarding sustainability, the project will continue on the internet, and as the platforms we have developed are free, no funding will be needed for this, all our work will remain as open resources to be used in schools during the following years so that it can have a multiplier effect.

The main desired impacts will be both the environmental one and a better European understanding as well. And our final objective will be to enhance, among our students, their self-esteem, critical thinking, leadership, collaborative learning, communication skills, languages and ICT, as a way to improve their future employability in a common European frame. We will realize that this kind of European project is worth to open minds and broaden horizons.

Project Website

http://twinspace.etwinning.net/107104/home

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 82860 Eur

Project Coordinator

IES José Luis Castillo-Puche & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Bernoulligymnasium
• Základní škola Zlín, Okružní 4685, příspěvková organizace