Education for Sustainable Development: water concern faced climate change Erasmus Project

Project Title

Education for Sustainable Development: water
concern faced climate change

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Teaching and learning of foreign languages; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

The objective of our Erasmus+ project is to expand our students’ foreign language competences. On the one hand, this involves improving all our students’ English language skills through practising the language within the project and, in the case of the Hungarian students also to improve their knowledge of French. To attain our goal, we chose a sub-topic of sustainable development: the effect of climate change on water management. The choice of topic along with the activities built around will promote and deepen scientific knowledge. We also aim at expanding the participants’ digital competences through making them acquainted with new softwares and online platforms. These goals support the development of the students’ basic competences as well as the teachers’ methodological repertoire.

The bilingual French-Hungarian section in our school which has been operating for 26 years now, has provided a lot of opportunities for our students to practise their foreign language knowledge in France. The old exchange programs have stopped and now we would like to replace them with new ones. The Albert Camus High School in Nimes, which we appointed as our partner school in this project, came to our attention in a previous Erasmus+ project. This former project enabled us to exchange good practices with colleagues on the topic of sustainable development. In the course of this project the colleagues of the two partner schools managed to establish a good and productive professional relationship, partly due to the similarities in the educational profile of the two schools. This is the main reason why we believe we should maintain this good relationship and enrich it with student mobility.

The participants of the projects are teachers and students interested in or committed to sustainable development. From our Hungarian school, the participating students will be those in the bilingual French-Hungarian class, and from the French high school a group of students interested in Hungarian culture. Altogether the project involves 32 students and 6 teachers whose professional background and language skills provide a solid base for the project. In certain activities of the project further colleagues and students from both schools will be involved.

The participants of the project will be working on the topic either individually or together connected either online or in personal meetings. At the beginning of the project both groups of students with the help of their teachers will collect information on the climate and hydrological features of their region, the characteristics of water management and the possible effect of climate change on water supplies. The information they collect will be presented to the partner school in various digital formats. After this, in the face-to-face meetings the students will analyse the presented facts in mixed groups and compare the findings of the two schools.

On the mutual visits to each other’s countries and schools, the students will get an insight into any cultural difference with the host country. The French students will have the opportunity to improve their foreign language competences due to the homestay accommodation and the activities where English will be the language of communication.

By the end of the project, after the participants have familiarized themselves with the two countries’ cultural and environmental features, they will come up with recommendations on a responsible, eco-minded attitude which would be desirable and within the people’s powers in both countries.

The good practices used throughout the project would be introduced in both schools. The presentation materials and all the products the students create will remain available for use for both the French-Hungarian bilingual section’s geography, civilisation and language classes and the Albert Camus High School. The newly-acquired digital competences, the use of online forums will be integrated into the everyday work of students and teachers alike.

The project will give our students an opportunity to extend their knowledge and skills in many fields but also to broaden their horizon and make them more open to other cultures and the idea of a European citizenship. The project will strengthen the good relationship of the two participating high schools and will facilitate the organization of any future cooperation.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 24067,2 Eur

Project Coordinator

Szegedi Tudományegyetem Gyakorló Gimnázium és Általános Iskola & Country: HU

Project Partners

• LGT Albert Camus