Becoming European Ecocitizens Erasmus Project

Project Title

Becoming European Ecocitizens

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Energy and resources; Social/environmental responsibility of educational institutions; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

Context
Saving Earth is the most important social awareness which everyone must know about to bring some positive changes on our planet. We want our students to become our future BEES, the sentinels of our planet. Climate is getting worse and worse. The contribution of mankind plays a great role in turning this nature event into a disaster. We are 6 schools around Europe which are very well aware of the negative effects of environmental problems and came together to create a partnership on the topic. Our schools have same problems about the awareness of our students on nature. BEE (Becoming European Ecoteens) aims at raising awareness on climate changes in young Europeans. We firmly think that like bees are a sign of a well functioning ecosystems, they act as indicators of the state of the environment, even our students will become eco-citizens able to tackle with problems caused by climate changes. .

Objectives
-To raise the awareness of at least 80% of the target group related to real measures to adopt in our private lives against climate changes
-To make children the centre of climate change strategies and response plans
-To elevate students’ voice on climate change
-To increase students’ intercultural awareness and communication skills
-To develop students’ creativity and critical thinking
-To develop the European dimension of our schools through international cooperation
– To raise students’ competences and school success
-To promote of European citizenship and inclusion, tolerance, mutual respect and solidatory

Participants
The target group
–100 students aged 10-14 in each school. Participants in exchanges
– 150 students (25 students from each country)
– attend topic-related workshops, cultural activities Parents will take part in workshops addressed to them during the exchanges and also after the exchanges, as each school will implement similar workshops with its parents, especially with the ECO CLUB events.
-teachers and school staff

Activities
C1 – team building and planning activities
C2 – recycling acitivites
C3 – trees for future
C4 – being organic and plastic free
C5 – show off the importance of nature
C6 – stop climate change and keep on healthy life

Results
As a result of our cooperation, we will produce the following outputs, which will be applied in our schools and shared free on dissemination platforms such as eTwinning and the school websites:
– Project Logo
– a BEE tree planted in each school partner
– an ECO CLUB in each school partner
– an online quizlet which consists of all quizzes during the project time
– articles, videos on eTwinning, local media and school website
– e-book about BEE topics discussed during mobilities and ECO CLUB meetings
– posters,banners
-project Tshirts and caps with project logo,fabric shopping bags
-presentations about partner schools,cities,countries,environmental issues
-leaflets

Impact
The project is meant to contribute to the European dimension of our schools.
We will improve the openness and flexibility of our teachers and our students. The school will gain an advantage in the local community, as it will become more appealing to future students We will make students able to identify consequences of their behavior in nature and to rethink about their impact of their footprint in nature. We will also enable parents to become more active in their children’s life, monitoring and guiding them, providing them with support. Thus we will create a fruitful collaboration school-parents-students. Our school will become a resource locally, as we will share our results with schools in our areas. We will gain a valuable project management capacity which will help us develop qualitative future Erasmus+ initiatives.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 180765 Eur

Project Coordinator

Csongrádi Batsányi János Gimnázium és Kollégium & Country: HU

Project Partners

• Agrupamento de Escolas de Aljustrel
• Comunidad del Colegio Nava La Salle
• Zespol Szkolno-Przedszkolny nr 3 im. Jana Pawla II
• Cudibey Ortaokulu
• ISTITUTO SECONDARIO DI 1^GRADO PETRARCA-PADRE PIO