Let’s save our planet! Erasmus Project

Project Title

Let’s save our planet!

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; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

Sustainability and the protection of the environment are now among national and European priorities. As such, Jean Brunet middle school has integrated this priority into its school’s plan and into the Citizen studies in which pupils acquire the skills and knowledge to become good citizens that will later play a constructive role in society. Accordingly, and in partnership with the Department Council of the Vaucluse, our region, our school is now applying to obtain a label certification : Collège Vert (or Green Collège). Therefore, we have also decided to involve our pupils, and our school in general, into a more global work through an exchange and partnership project with European countries : Erasmus+ « Let’s save our planet ! »
The main objective of our project is to make our pupils ambassadors, in each of the European countries involved in the project. Their mission will be to raise awareness among the public (from pupils, to adults and partners) on the importance of ecology and on the sense of European belonging. They will show behaviors respectful of the environment which would have been constructed with our European partners. Through the European partnership, the students/pupils will develop respectful and informed attitudes toward the environment. We hope the impact of this project will not only reach the four schools involved, but also the many other schools in our region, our social partners, cities, and even our departments.
Generally speaking, our pupils are not well informed enough on what is at stake in preserving our environment. As teachers, we try to raise awareness among our young citizens of one of the most important issues of our time. Our teaching will be backed up by real and virtual exchanges with our European partners, so that our pupils will be able to see and to obtain materials to think about sustainable practices which will be respectful of our environment at the European standard. This project will also allow our pupils to develop their sense of belonging to Europe by working hand-in-hand with other young Europeans of their age. The teachers will also meet, to exchange their teaching methods and to educate themselves by discussing their tools and teaching methods. Once our project is completed, we would like to not only educate our colleagues on the use of eTwinning but also to motivate them to set up European projects, of any kind, by showing them the progress of our project from the start. If our project is given the green light, we would like to explore our partnership with European countries further by setting up a pairing collaboration with one of our partners in order to work together on other projects, or to exchange on our teaching practices.
We are offering to work with two classes (year 9 and year 10) with Euro English as an option, which will represent roughly thirty pupils and approximately eight teachers to carry out the project in each country. Everybody will take part into mobilities and/or host European pupils and their teachers in the frame of our project ‘Let’s save our planet!’
Firstly, a survey will be answered by all the pupils and by their teachers to establish their degrees of implication into the issue of ecology and to establish what their habits are. From there, teachers and pupils will work with pedagogical sequences on the theme. Awareness will be raised on the risks and the reasons why we should take care of our planet. During visits, hosts will organize an exhibition, a conference and/or an event to show what is being done locally, regionally and nationally. Then, activities related to the theme of ecology will be offered. We expect from these visits to allow our pupils’ attitudes toward the environment to advance but also to emphasize their sense of belonging to the European community of which they may feel excluded.
Co-built actions will be shared among all the children and adults of the school as well as parents and partners, during events organized to celebrate Europe and sustainability. Those events will be publicized thanks to our website as well as the schools’ websites and social networks. We will share the most largely as possible our wonderful European experience in the shape of our Erasmus+ project by soliciting, among others, the press and the media. At the end of our project, we hope that a group of ambassador pupils will be able to intervene in other classes and other schools in our local community. These pupils will be representatives of the project, bringing their expertise to future events. We also want to expand those succesful practices outside the walls of the schools. We count on the younger generation to influence parents and politicians.
A lot of our children are scholarship students and this opportunity will be an an amazing experience for them and we hope it will have an impact long after the two planned years of the project.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 105462 Eur

Project Coordinator

College Jean Brunet & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Commanderij College
• Escola Básica 1,2,3/PE Bartolomeu Perestrelo
• ic Scinà/Costa