European Green Planet Film Festival Erasmus Project

Project Title

European Green Planet Film Festival

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: Creativity and culture; Environment and climate change; Social/environmental responsibility of educational institutions

Project Summary

The European Green Planet Film Festival (EGP) is an exchange of good practices project. It has two pillars: Filmmaking and Animation in the Classroom (FAC) and the celebration of various environmental short film Festivals. The project wants to promote FAC and to engage students in learning through simple filmmaking and animation. Participants will discover how film and animation can be used as powerful tools for encouraging active learning and enabling pupils to establish strong connections with any area of the curriculum.
The project was born to face the necessities of our school and students: a low level of linguistic knowledge and a lack of interest for learning languages, poor environmental sustainability and a low level of cultural diversity and tolerance.
The eTwinning live platform helped us to find other schools with similar necessities and objectives.
Institut Vacarisses (Spain), which will be the project coordinator.
Szkola Podstawowa im. Jana Pawla II w Koszecinie (Poland).
Agrupamento de Escolas Gil Eanes (Portugal).
Istituto Comprensivo “Falconara Centro” (Italy).
The four schools will work with middle school pupils aged between 12 to 14 years. A total of 120 students, 30 per country.
The activities that have to be done throughout the project are organized in order to engage, connect and empower young people as they are related to creativity, environment, social responsibility and culture. These activities are, mainly, the realization of fictions, documentaries and animations by the students and the organization and realization of the EGP where students creations will be shown. During the course, also, there will be the realization and its subsequent publication in the media of surveys of families and members of the jury, as well as the directors after the viewing of the short films. Moreover, there will be the creation and transmission of an informative text or speech with which they will explain their learning and proposals to the rest of their locality and to their partners, the realization of an environmental workshop for partners and the creation of a Logo, a Poster, a Triptych and a Festival statue.
With this project, we want to introduce an innovative way of learning. This would be made engaging and empowering students all across the European Union by producing their own original products and services. Everything related to the organization of an international short film festival (EGP). We think that it should be a priority in the digital era in which we live in.
Thanks to the EGP, students will work in small collaborative international groups. We will promote the use of digital tools following a constructivist and social construcivist way of learning/teaching in a Projects Based Learning methodology. We will explain and present the use of these tools, all of them linkable from the TwinSpace. This way, students and teachers will enhance their digital abilities and competences. Students and teachers will discover about their school and partners schools environmental policies, and this will allow partners to learn from their European neighbours and vice versa.
Moreover, the way in which all we said will be done is not only academically and educationally interesting because everything have been thought in order to do it in a motivating way for the students. That is because all the activities are real and significative, with a deep impact in the society itself and all the community will be involved: the centre, the students, the teachers, the village council and all the citizens.
Our project is also engaging and empowering because students will decide the films that will become part of the official selection. They will watch the films and evaluate them before the screenings. Students will also decide and modify the rules of the Festival. They will be able to choose the length of the films and even the topic (air quality, waste, water, climate change…).
We expect a deep impact in some weaknesses of the centres in order to decrease them in the short term and the long term thanks to its sustainability through time. Specifically, we expect to raise the linguistic knowledge and the interest for learning languages of our students as we will use English as a working and communicating language. Moreover, the films submitted in the festivals will be in different languages and, all of them, subtitled in English. We also expect to raise the environmental conscience as its problems will be debated, contrasted and worked during the whole project. We envisage it will enlarge different perspectives and environmental issues in the different four schools involved in the project. Besides, we also expect that the internationalism reached thanks to this project and the contact made among students from different cultures will raise the level of cultural diversity and tolerance.

Project Website

http://egpff.org

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 102504 Eur

Project Coordinator

INSTITUT VACARISSES & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Istituto Comprensivo “Falconara Centro”
• Agrupamento de Escolas Gil Eanes
• Szkola Podstawowa im. Jana Pawla II w Koszecinie