Biodiversity : past, present, future Erasmus Project

Project Title

Biodiversity : past, present, 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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Natural sciences; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; Social/environmental responsibility of educational institutions

Project Summary

On November 13, 2017, more than 15,000 scientists from 184 countries issued a warning to humanity. The pressure from societies, the environment is sufficiently and increasingly deteriorating sufficiently and increasingly so that in the near future “ecosystems with no longer have the capacity to sustain the fabric of life”. This appeal to the whole world therefore testifies to the absolute urgency of taking action. Recently, twenty years after its first report, Living Planet 2 published the grim report of a 60% decline in the population of wild species in less than forty years. For WWF, if we want to “live in a healthier and more sustainable world, for the benefit of people and natural systems”, we must stop and reverse the decline in biodiversity; it is ambitious but achievable. We must act now and today, future generations are involved in maintaining and restoring biodiversity in the world. The ecological transition requires education. As UNICEF3 points out to the necessity of raising, this requires “raising awareness among children and young people, but also raising their awareness of the need for action”. Youth must be able to be educated and become a full partner in achieving the 17 Global Sustainable Development Goals set in 2015 to achieve the goals by 2030.

As part of a project approach and thanks to cooperative mechanisms establishing an authentic democratic life, this Erasmus+ project proposes that the student, as a future responsible citizen, can express his ideas, confront them with others, and in particular imagine how to participate in the necessary transformations of society. By referring to a certain number of values such as listening, respect for others, sharing, mutual aid, solidarity, responsibility, autonomy, cooperation and by developing a cooperative pedagogy that gives meaning to learning, this project is also fully in line with the objectives of the teaching.
Mobility in each of the different countries is essential to study biodiversity on a larger scale and above all to become aware that it is an international, even global, concern. A limited number of “ambassador” students from his school will participate in each of the mobilities so that the group of high school students trained on site is not too large and allows exchanges and visits to the sites in complete safety.

For the diffusion at different scales, all the activities carried out by the students before, during and after the mobilities will be grouped on a twinspace. All communication will be in English. The link to access the twinspace will be available from the sites of the 5 high schools (from a tab dedicated to the Erasmus project on the high school website). Local media will be involved in all partner countries (radio, television, newspapers,…)

The benefits provided to participants in direct connection with the subject matter will be:
– to encourage citizen engagement in the ecological transition,
– to develop the practice of civic, argumentative and scientific debate,
– to share and share best practices between different countries to take care of the planet.
In the project approach, pupils are actors, sometimes even authors of their learning; thus, they learn to become autonomous and responsible (individually and collectively), skills that are essential in the long run to be a responsible European citizen in terms of ecology.
Students engage in activities whose meaning they perceive and which renew their interest in their studies (fight against dropping out of school). The actions required to carry out the project are ways of mobilising acquired knowledge and developing new knowledge, particularly in English. The actions to be carried out must take into account economic, material, time and human constraints, which is formative for the students who may one day have the responsibility of setting up the same project.
This European project makes it possible to open up to others, to other institutions, to share competences, to compare opinions…
Finally, active participation in the project implies a collective life and therefore training in civic life.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 149440 Eur

Project Coordinator

Lycée Pablo Picasso & Country: FR

Project Partners

• LICEUL BORSA
• Flensborgarskóli
• Istituto Istruzione Scolastica Superiore “Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa”
• IES Clot del Moro