Planning A Green Environment Erasmus Project

Project Title

Planning A Green Environment

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: Energy and resources; Social entrepreneurship / social innovation; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

“Planning a Green Environment” (PAGE) is a European project in which six partners from Spain, Portugal, Greece, Cyprus, France and Italy participate.
PAGE focuses on the topic of sustainable energy sources in the areas where the centres are located, and on the improvement of the participants’ communicative skills in English thanks to the application of new and innovative teaching methodologies based on ICTs tools. The designed activities are committed to the spread of best practices and experiences among the countries involved in the field of the renewable energy each country uses.
The main objective of the project is to establish a knowledge alliance which allows us to share best practices in the field of renewable energies, giving special emphasis to the aid of the Information and Communication Technologies. At the same time, we aim at raising our students’ environmental consciousness, by focusing on the renewable energies each country stands out and on the effects the extinction of natural resources will have on our daily lives. The establishment of such a knowledge alliance in which six partners from six countries are involved will enable us to accomplish the desired objectives, since it will allow our students to see by themselves other learning realities and especially other cultures, as well as to interact with others in a real context, raising thus their interest in learning the foreign language.
However, by sharing and confronting ideas, practices and methods around the topic of renewable energies, we would develop and reinforce a network which our whole educational community would take advantage of, since it would create positive and longlasting effects upon those directly and indirectly involved, from our students to our teaching staff, as well as the students’ families, our administrative staff and, what is more, the municipalities where our institutions are located.
The students directly involved in the project (globally 300) are from 12 to 18 years old, and they would also take part in a students’ exchange which will enable them to get steeped into the different realities of each of the partners, benefiting from the enriching factor of being in contact with educational systems and cultural and social realities different from theirs. The exchanges would also have a motivational impact on our students and would also provide an opportunity to pupils coming from families with low incomes who would not be able to visit and get in touch with other European realities otherwise.
The specific objectives we aim at achieving are the following:
– Promoting dialogue, respect, participation, knowledge and decision making among countries in the European Union;
– Understanding of the use of sustainable energy resources and awareness of the need to switch to them among families, staff and students;
– Learning to work together and share information with European schools;
– Strenghtening the European Dimension in Education;
– Developing collaborative learning strategies and entrepreneurship among students and teachers;
– Increasing competence in English as common language in the EU;
– Increasing the level of ICT competence;
– Underlining that European education is essential in fostering a sense of European belonging and identity

The main students’ activities are the following:
– presentations of the participant countries;
– presentations of participants’ personal profiles.
– design of the project logo;
– logo contest;
– design of a campaign poster;
– infographics about the main renewable energy each country exploits;
– comics on the effects of global warming (collaborative work by using ICT tools);
– interviews to family and friends on sustainable behaviours in their daily lives.
– research on the use of renewable energy and its impact on the development of the countries;
– video reports on the area each school is located, with emphasis on the renewable energy each partners stands out;
– video reports of the transnational meetings;
– preparation of an E-Book containing the results of all the activities carried out

We will make use of mixed group work, cooperative learning, practical and “on the spot” researches, guided visits to “green” plants
All the material created will be published in a common E-Twinning Space, in the partners’ school websites and in a E-Book

The project will contribute to raise students’ environmental consciousness and their awareness of belonging to the European Union and the opportunities it provides them with. The dissemination of the project’s results will have a long-lasting impact upon the partners as well as upon other relevant stakeholders, since the educational materials will be open and accesible to anybody interested in them.
The schools themselves will acquire higher levels of quality in the teaching of foreign languages, which will contribute to their internationalization as well as to raisen their awareness of being part of the European Union as an essential added value.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 188143 Eur

Project Coordinator

IIS BARSANTI MASSA & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Lycee CENTRE SUD DUCOS
• Escola Secundária Domingos Rebelo
• PAGKYPRIO LYKEIO
• IES JANDIA
• Ekpaideutiria Dodekanese S.A.