Agenda 2030: That’s our challenge! Erasmus Project

Project Title

Agenda 2030: That’s our challenge!

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: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Environment and climate change; Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development)

Project Summary

The project has counted with the participation of schools in Germany, Greece, Italy and Spain. Each of the schools had some particular characteristics that have served to enrich the other schools.
Carlo Schmid Oberschüle, has the “Berliner Klima Schüle” award that certifies schools that have a responsible management with the environment, also has international programs of cooperation for development.
Protypo Gymnasio Zosimaia School is a center for high-skill students.
Istituto Professional “Federico II” is a reference professional training school in the region and leads diverse collaboration projects with the University of Enna.
IES Clara Campoamort has received the Honorable Mention of the innovation awards given by the GSD Foundation in collaboration with the Ministry of Education.
The objective of the project has been to share the know-how of each school to work on the objectives of the Agenda 2030, which have served to achieve our great objective, which is to educate citizens who are aware of their needs and who are active entrepeneurs of the society in which they live.
The project has involved a large number of students since many of the activities have been carried out in the classroom, with the whole of the group participating. However, in all the schools there has been a group of students who have been asked for extra work throughout the project. This group, which has participated in the mobilities, has been of 76 students in total. The age of the these students has been between 14 and 18 years. These students body has been selected for their motivation and involvement in the project.
The Agenda 2030 includes global goals, adaptable to different environments and situations. Our intention has been to adopt multiple work strategies that allow us to approach more adequately the work of these objectives and the development of the competences of the participating students, that is why we have used different approaches and different methodologies to carry out the activities.
In the work carried out within the class, all the students have participated and we have elaborated a didactic guide of the activity, relating it to the current curriculum and looking for a multidisciplinary approach. The evaluation has been done using rubrics.
In order to involve the schools as a whole, some specific dates have been dedicated (such as women’s day) to work in a monothematic way one of the goals. Likewise, seminars have been held with the participation of experts who have involved students from different classes.
The mobilities of the project, have served to work, all toghether, 2 goals that were related with the surroundings of the host school.
Finally, there has been an activity that has allowed a direct collaboration between the students of the participating schools. This activity consisted in the realization of an eco-audit in the schools, followed by the decision of measures and their implementation. In all the phases of the eco-audit, the students have interacted in international groups with various communication tools.
The collaboration between the different schools has also been diverse. In the work within the subjects, the teachers of each center have carried out the activity according to their programming and curriculum, but there has been a communication with the teaching staff of the subject of the other schools, in such a way, the teachers have learned of the experience and, when it was considered, it has been adapted to the characterisitics of the school and the curriculum.
The realization of days dedicated to an objective has allowed a previous communication between the schools to organize this day and by this way the teachers have shared ideas to work together. In this sense, we have also worked together in the activities proposed within the “Global Goal Lessons” (educational resources provided by the UN to work with the goals of the Agenda 2030).
Finally, the eco-audit has made possible to experience the realization of an international project of real collaboration among students.
Working in this way has allowed schools in general and students in particular, to actively work on the Agenda 2030, putting into operation the necessary skills and giving a practical framework to their training. On the other hand, the participating teachers have learned new methodologies to work properly on the competences.
This learning will become part of the usual practice of the participating schools. Likewise, the eco-audit carried out will allow the participating schools to improve their ecological habits.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 98021,81 Eur

Project Coordinator

IES Clara Campoamor & Country: ES

Project Partners

• PROTYPO GYMNASIO ZOSIMAIA SCHOOL
• ISTITUTO PROFESSIONALE STATALE “FEDERICO II”
• Carlo-Schmid-Oberschule