Green Living for a sustainable and inclusive future Erasmus Project

Project Title

Green Living for a sustainable and inclusive 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: Environment and climate change; Social/environmental responsibility of educational institutions; Energy and resources

Project Summary

In the globalised context which combines the rapidly-growing technological evolution, global warming and the temptation to become introspective, how is it possible to reconcile all of these fundamental challenges? How can we live with sustainable development in a modern lifestyle where everything is connected and open to all. The COVID-19 virus has struck us all with full force, forcing us to rethink our modern lifestyle and its excesses, and has obliged us to reduce our activities. How do we achieve a more reasonable consumption level, and one which favours local commerce?

By targeting several of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, we would like to develop the awareness of our students in sustainable development.

To do this we would like to motivate our students to have a greater contact to nature, incite them to use simple daily gestures, which make them more conscious and responsible actors in the quality of life, notably through reducing energy consumption and food waste, and by becoming more efficient in recycling paper, cardboard and plastic waste in their respective schools – and in their own homes.

We will particularly focus the attention of the youths and – through them – other social groups, such as families, school communities and local authorities, on the current state of the environment, its exploitation, as well as the risks and the dangers that this brings with it. This is all the more important as a part of the students – who are involved in the project – live in an environment which is heavily impacted by over-exploitation, pollution and degradation. This leads us to envisage a project of common interest in the participating countries where the challenges, the history and the financial means and resources are very different.

We also want to make the students more active in any initiative which has the goal of stopping social exclusion of people, be it the elderly, the poor, the sick, those who are not adapted to modern life, or discriminated against. We therefore hope to make the youths more tolerant and less indifferent towards the social integration of people who are discriminated against.

The project will enable up to 80 students and up to 12 teachers, over the course of the two years, during an exchange visit, to discover the daily lives, the language and the culture of their correspondents in France and Poland, thereby allowing a better mutual understanding of each of the respective participating countries, and thus also combatting the stereotypes of each country.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 65120 Eur

Project Coordinator

Lycée Les Rimains & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Zespol Szkol Ogolnoksztalcacych Nr 1 w Raciborzu