UNDERSTANDING “BLUE GROWTH” STRATEGY Erasmus Project

Project Title

UNDERSTANDING “BLUE GROWTH” STRATEGY

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; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

Project Summary

The idea about the Project stem from the fact that seas and oceans are drivers for the European economy and have great potential for innovation and growth. But this potential, called “Blue Growth “ strategy by EC, has not been understood enough in public .
Europe faces many challenges today, but one, which is obvious and easy to relate to students living in sea-side towns is the issue of the sea impact on their lives. The six partner countries will explore the “The Blue Growth” from the perspectives: Fishing and Aquaculture, Blue Biotech Underwater Mining & Sea and Maritime heritage, Coastland Tourism, Marine Energy, Blue Jobs.
As teachers, our goal is to enhance students’ motivation and provide the necessary skills to handle future challenges. In order to achieve it, we need to “transfer” school learning to real-life situations.
This project enables teachers to find methodologies that will help in that transition and makes schoolwork relevant for the students. We think that working in an international context is a benefit for all the stakeholders: teachers will grow personally and become proficient in their teaching methods and students will play a more active part in their own learning process.
We face a Europe – a world – where attitudes to environment seem to develop in a more negative direction. A relevant aim for us is a better understanding of how to preserve the maritime environment and as a consequence our cultural heritage according to a sustainable development.
The partner schools will deal with this topic in many subjects such as English, social studies, geography, history, biology, navigation, ICT, electrical engineering etc. We will also engage students on different level, the total number of students taking directly part in the project will be about 120 each year + the teachers teaching these subjects.
A major goal is student activity, engagement and motivation: learning by doing. To reach this goal we will use a variety of activities such as excursions, interviews with fellow students from other countries, interviews with people who work in the maritime sectors and coastal tourism etc. Students will be encouraged to try to find their own answers to their own questions. In this process, the contact with European students will make them more open to different solutions and views and it will also give them a motivating possibility to practice the foreign languages they learn at school in realistic settings.
The outcomes of our project will be shared on a project face book page and on E twinning and by keeping our colleagues informed about our experiences.
The main final product of the training meeting in Crete/Greece will be: a shared co-operated interactive google-map presentation of the participating countries, full of marked points with multimedia information (images, videos, texts) about environmental matters. The involved students, will fill the map with colored spots, showing places of interest, presenting their history, how tourism affected them, the environmental impact of development, the blue flags earned and so on. In addition, they could upload on google store, an android application with quizzes on coastal tourism.
In Iskenderun/Turkey meeting products will be a digital dashboard web page narrating the workshops and video products about the subtopics of fishing and aquaculture, a blog page including pictures in meeting and information about subtopics and “blue growth” part of 2020 strategy , a leaflet about sea foods.
In Constanta/Romania products will be : JOURNAL with pictures and videos uploaded on project web site ; presentations will be done both in English and in mother tongue and they will be gathered in a BROCHURE entitled: MARINE ENERGY, which will be charged on project web site or will be printed after the conference; POSTER – ways of saving energy uploaded on project web site; 5 business ideas for business environment or public authorities; JOURNAL “Renewable energy” with pictures and videos uploaded on project web site.
In Sicily/Italy products will be a digital book , cointaining all the activites’ results in the form of images, videos, text, questionnaire. The pics and videos will be taken by mobile phones, The questionnairies will be carried out by google moduli, the videos will be created by very simple movie maker app uploaded on the mobile phones and used habitually by the students.
In Valencia/Spain products will be :a product of the film of all mobilities and publishing the schools’ social media pages and on you tube platform .
In Gdansk / Poland products will be : “The Blue Growth Strategy” digital book to be created by referring to the European Union Blue growth strategy of which all sub-topics described in the meetings held in all partner cities .

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 192900 Eur

Project Coordinator

ISISS ITN-ITG-IPS-ITC & Country: IT

Project Partners

• ISKENDERUN CUMHURIYET ANADOLU LISESI
• Colegio PioXII-FUNDACIÓN ESCUELA VIVA
• Liceul Tehnologic Virgil Madgearu Constanta
• PIRAMATIKO GENIKO LIKIO PANEPISTIMIOU KRITIS (RETHYMNO)
• Zespol Szkol Ogolnoksztalcacych nr 1 w Gdansku