Blue gold, dark depths : creating an european eco-citizenship Erasmus Project

Project Title

Blue gold, dark depths : creating an european eco-citizenship

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Environment and climate change; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; Pedagogy and didactics

Project Summary

This plan came from a common wish, from our four schools, to open our pupils to European cultures, offering them an European point of view on their teaching, through a common topic, related to our national syllabus. Some of our pupils only have a local reading of their environment : broadening to European stakes is a token of intellectual opening, maintained curiosity and future wishes.

The main objective is to encourage them to reconsider their habits, and points of reference, sharing the way they learn and what they learn with same aged pupils, culturally, geographically, even socially close.
The objective is also to lead to a similar process with the teaching methods of our educational teams : leaving a strictly local or national approach of the syllabus, observing of course their imperatives, but putting it in relation to the others, ensuring a more practical reading for the pupils, testifying of their practical significance. Because every country teaches similar notions, but not necessarily in the same way, and some ways can be more comprehensive for some of our pupils !
This double objective, thus, to make our pupils more open-minded, in all the meanings of the word, and to propose various interpretative framework for the teachers, setting in context syllabus inherited from historical, national and social habits. Rather than a questioning, it’s about an intercultural enrichment, aiming to open our educational traditions with other methods, in order to develop practical tools borrowed from one another, share new ideas and get inspired by other countries’ methods.

We are four secondary education schools, with pupils from 11 to 15 (a few are 16). A French school, coordinating, located in Noisy-le-Grand, in Parisian area ; an Italian school, in Grantorto, close to Venice ; a Romanian school, in Bucharest ; and, finally, an international school located in Stockholm, Sweden.

We are already working together in order to organize transnational activities, between our different classes and disciplines. Thus, activities and games gathering transnational teams of same class levels will be registered in a newspaper, keeping their progress up-to-date. European Weeks will be organized in each school to present ambassadors pupils, exposing every step of the projects in their school. Likewise, amongst the educational team, a methodology is adopted : virtual meetings through eTwinning will take place at least twice a month , in order to coordonate the whole activities proposed by each discipline, and to galvanize, if necessary, inspiring ideas coming from other disciplines or other colleagues.

We expect these activities to have a real impact on local liveliness, for each school. It will raise awareness among several hundreds of pupils per school, about European and environmental topics. Thereby, all the pupils’ families related to, and the localities around, will hear about practical progresses made through these exchanges. Pupils, families, urban network, but also teachers’ team, this project will highlight positively, locally and pragmatically what European cooperation means in everyday life. It will highlight as well a necessary awareness from all of us about natural resources’ protection, and aquatic areas’ wealth.

In the long-term, and in collaboration with cultural, educational and social associations, this project will present positive results that will arouse immediate interests, entering into a more substantial scale: being aware of one’s responsibility and being open to others will no longer be a simple concept but something obvious, a reflex, environmental and civic awareness, and more particularly of a local, national and European civism will be central in the project. At last, development, beyond civism, of interpersonal friendships, cement of a proper European collective project.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 64120 Eur

Project Coordinator

Collège Saint-Exupéry & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Istituto Comprensivo Statale di Grantorto
• SCOALA GIMNAZIALA MARIA ROSETTI
• AB Parts & Paomees