Water is Life Erasmus Project

Project Title

Water is Life

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: Environment and climate change; Natural sciences; Teaching and learning of foreign languages

Project Summary

Through an intercultural and cross-curricular exchange, we want our students at the two schools, Dalarö Skola in Dalarö, Sweden, and Collège Jean Dieuzaide in Pechbonnieu, France, to build sustainable relations through knowledge about cultural properties. While working on activities together and sharing perspectives which will broaden the horizons of both participating students and teachers, the students will strengthen their knowledge in both the sciences and mathematics while using English as their means of communication. We want that the contact and the project pervade both lessons and activities, both continually during the school years and at fixed times when students and teachers meet in real life.

The project’s participants from both schools will be students from middle school, together with teachers in English, Maths, and Science. Most students at both schools will take part in the activities that run throughout the school year as well as when the other school is visiting. The students that travel will primarily be 10-15 students in English club from year 8 in Sweden and 4e in France together with 2-3 teachers. The students are the ones who are willing to put themselves forward as the school’s representatives and be extra responsible ambassadors for communicating their experience while abroad and when back home.

The project’s activities will be about water and environmental sustainability. The overall theme for both schools for this Erasmus project is for the students to learn about their immediate aquatic environment and also another aquatic environment by collaboratively working with students in another country while becoming confident in using English as their means of communication. The activities we work on during the school year will prepare the excursions and places we visit during the exchanges in order to broaden the knowledge and get a first-hand experience of the learned material. Knowledge will be gained both through lectures and students’ own hands-on research. During the school years, knowledge, results, and findings will be shared between the countries via text, short films, and pictures in a blog or any other way that the students find useful. During visits, knowledge will be shared by presentations and in day-to-day conversations during activities in mixed groups where both French and Swedish students work together. Through all activities, we strive towards growing as human beings as we learn about our respective differences and challenges.

When the students come back to their school after an exchange they will present their newfound experiences to both peers, other teachers, and parents. We will communicate our ventures to the people in charge of education in the municipality. Furthermore, the students will be invited during classes all through the school years to share their thoughts and gained experiences whenever appropriate so that the new knowledge from our exchange pervade as much as possible in the school work. We hope that the students who have been on an exchange will be full of fun enthusiasm which automatically will rub off on their peers, in turn arising their curiosity both towards our exchange but also towards our long-term goal of open-mindedness towards international environments and other cultures.

A concrete result we would like to reach is for the students to become aware of the importance for all of us to take care of the environment everywhere and that we need to help each other in the future. In the long run, we want to help our students strive towards becoming open-minded European citizens that as adults find working in an international environment an obvious choice and who find it easy to open up towards other people, finding these other cultures enriching additions to theirs.

Project Website

https://www.erasmuswaterislife.com/dissemination/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 20670 Eur

Project Coordinator

Dalarö Skola & Country: SE

Project Partners

• Collège Jean Dieuzaide