People Organising Redevelopment Technology and Sustainability Erasmus Project

Project Title

People Organising Redevelopment Technology and Sustainability

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: Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; Research and innovation

Project Summary

Schools from six European countries (Croatia, Greece, Italy, Cyprus, Portugal and Estonia) are involved in this project which focuses on a variety of PORTS, “A place of a collective identity” where everything can start and everything can arrive, where life is punctuated by the cyclical time but also by exceptionality, unexpected, where uses and traditions have developed in the course of the years. The development of port dynamics is actually based on essential variables, including geographical, environmental, technological, economic, logistic ones. Hence, a port is a microcosm reflecting life and a wide range of positive and negative issues.
Nowadays, ports have changed, they are overwhelmed by modernity, everywhere plastic replaces wood, automation carries more and more pollution, the habitat itself, altered by port activities, collects blows of a pressing unbridled development.
“P.O.R.T.S.” refers both to the real port, centres of commerce, crucial to the economy, and to the ability to face the problems and the issues related to it.
“P.O.R.T.S.” stands for “People Organising Redevelopment Technology and Sustainability”, that is the challenge to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all, in accordance with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit in 2015. Thus, our schools want to deal with the ports closer to our towns/cities. The best elements of our ports are intended to build an ideal port, as a prototype of excellence. Port as a city outpost, a borough, a place to be enjoyed, which also offers situations of sustainability in order to block out the common idea which considers the port a “non- place”.
We aim to promote the acquisition of academic and social skills of our students through the current vital issue of Sustainability, Redevelopment and Technology. We want to motivate them, in particular those facing difficulties (educational, health, emotional, economic, cultural, social) through a meaningful and concrete learning context which, besides promoting the acquisition of key skills and competences, helps reduce disparities in learning outcomes.
By working in international groups, we exchange our experiences, ideas and create the space and conditions for creativity, sharing the joy of spending time together with common objectives and results.
The main objective of P.O.R.T.S. is to motivate students, above all the weakest ones, by dealing with this environmental topic, having in mind a concrete aim: thinking about and designing an ideal 3D prototype “Smart & Green Port” that takes into account the value of ecosystems, as well as the socioeconomic effects on the surrounding region, that is not a common practice in a traditional approach to port development.
About 80 students will travel abroad, but the project group will be much larger because all the students will benefit from it. Pupils will take advantage of using innovative 21st-century technologies for design, to get in touch with other people and different cultures and for the educational process.
The project activities will be integrated into the curriculum of the participating students (History, Economics, English, Maths, Science, Art, I.C.T., Technology)
Our students will explore ports, their history and traditions, technological development, various abiotic and biotic environmental parameters, as well as the biodiversity and the cultural and socioeconomic activities. They will record how human activities disturb the ecological balance.
They will create:
-project logo, poster and motto
-Six Guides “In My Port”
-The 3D Prototype and a Handbook of a “Smart&Green Port”
-The project website where all materials and results will be shared
-A wrapping-up video containing photos, videos of meetings and activities
-The TwinSpace where information, documents, outcomes and links to various sites will be published.
-The project Blog to publish the researches, lectures, studies, photos and videos of activities and meetings
-The FB group to communicate with partners and to get teachers and /or pupils acquainted.
Finishing our project, we hope to have raised environmental consciousness among students, teachers, parents and the public, and highlighted the greatness of Nature.
In addition, we believe in sensitising communities, authorities, to take measures for rational use of PORTS aiming at its sustainability in accordance with the 2030 Agenda.
We expect all participants and stakeholders will acquire knowledge and experience. The project intends to encourage the exchange of ideas, knowledge and customs and to develop skills and competences, essential for their successful professional and personal life and to help them be European citizens with EU values. This European partnership promotes life-long learning.
In the long term our aim is to disseminate the project to teachers, families, peers, local schools in each partner school’s area, local and European authorities.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 173550 Eur

Project Coordinator

Istituto Istruzione Secondaria Superiore E. Fermi & Country: IT

Project Partners

• 1st General Lyceum of Argostoli
• AMAR TERRA VERDE LDA
• Gymnasio Omodous
• Saku Gümnaasium
• Srednja skola Metkovic