Sustainable development of Europe for a healthy lifestyle – synergy between teaching ecology and exchange of good practices in the field of Renewable Energy and Recycling. Erasmus Project

Project Title

Sustainable development of Europe for a healthy lifestyle – synergy between teaching ecology and exchange of good practices in the field of Renewable Energy and Recycling.

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 : Strategic Partnerships for Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Energy and resources; Natural sciences; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

The project REnergy concerned the use of various renewable energy sources and was addressed mainly to young people who are the beneficiaries and prospective parents, citizens and employees. We intended to equip them with the necessary knowledge and skills and develop in them the belief of extraordinary importance of caring for personal sustainability and the environment we live in. They should know, by now, the obvious benefits to humans resulting from living in harmony with nature and strive for such technology development, improvement of the quality of life that will have a positive impact on the environment and will not harm it in any way. Six partner countries, participating in the project, created a great opportunity to make new friendships for the future and enriched language skills during the course of the partnership.
Profile of involved staff: the project involved foreign languages teachers as English was the working language of the project. School headmasters and teachers supervised the proper procedures related to the implementation of the project. ICT, mathematics, language, biology, environmental, physics and technology teachers were the leaders of project groups in terms of the thematic activities within their areas of research designed in the project, such as:
– preparing, developing of movies
– preparing, developing of multimedia presentations
– preparing, developing of science shows in accordance with the objectives of the project
– developing of outlines activities envisaged in the project
Nature, geography and history teachers were the leaders of groups whose thematic activities were related to their field of research involving:
– Aspects of the historical use of renewable energy (supervision over the creations of students and developing outlines)
– Aspects of the natural use of renewable energy (natural and geographical conditions imposing methods of use of renewable energy in a given area)
Art and technology teachers will watch over the development of an artistic side of project (preparation of leaflets, wall newspapers, banners, posters). In addition, they will oversee the visual aspect of students’ creations.

The most important results were:
– website of the project (www.afteam.hu/erasmusproject), including the reports of the project partners’ activities in the form of short articles (including photographs, reports, links to films made during excursions representing good practice in the use of renewable energy and waste management). Multimedia presentations illustrating the history and present use of resources covered by the project theme were posted there. It was edited by the persons designated in each partner school in their native language (for individual pages), and English – language of the project.
– the plans of the lessons; during each meeting, the lesson plans was developed (2 outlines to every issue after the list below a – e) the first relates to the history of the use of energy sources, the other relates to the current situation):
a) solar energy
b) wind energy
c) water energy
d) geothermal energy
e) waste management and recycling

– script (set of outlines) providing the guidance for the implementation and practical advice for the teachers. Outlines were published in English, accompanied by photographs and editor’s (coordinating school) comment, notes to the implementation, practical advice for the teachers. In this script, we posted an additional gallery of images showing good practice in the use of renewable and alternative energy sources.
– the cumulative album containing the effects of students’ work
– presentations outlining the history and present use of renewable energy sources
– DVDs containing videos of thematic excursions demonstrating good practice in the use of renewable energy and recycling
– glossary of language containing the thematic concepts in each native language partners
– project profile on Youtube, where we presented films of thematic excursions

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 142485 Eur

Project Coordinator

Fjolbrautaskolinn í Gardabae & Country: IS

Project Partners

• Liceo Statale Archita
• SÜRÜR ABDURRAHMAN SERTTAS ORTAOKULU
• ESCOLA SECUNDÁRIA DE EMÍDIO NAVARRO
• Zespol Szkol w Uhrze imienia Romualda Traugutta
• Budapesti Gépészeti SZC Bánki Donát Közlekedésgépészeti Szakgimnáziuma és Szakközépiskolája