Boot your green Erasmus Project

Project Title

Boot your green

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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

“BOOST YOUR GREEN”, a 36-month project supported by France, is fully in line with the desire to adapt to the current challenges of sustainable development by developing basic and transversal knowledge through innovative methods for students.
As sustainable development was a topic of common interest to students, teachers and school staff, the goal was to increase the citizenship spirit of all, including low-level students.
Some countries are more or less advanced in the implementation and teaching of sustainable development. The project has allowed us to compare existing practices and learn from each other, reflect on how we teach and share new ideas to improve the transfer of knowledge and practices within schools.
The participating schools are:
– Vocational high school Jules Le Cesne du Havre, en France, porteur du projet.
– Vocational high school Kartal Şehit Salih Alışkan Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi de Istanbul en Turquie
– Vocational high school Escola Profissional Amar Terra Verde de Villa Verde au Portugal
– Vocational high school Secondary Municipal School Taki Daskalo de Bitola en République de Macédoine du Nord
– Vocational high school Colegiul Technic « Transilvania » de Baia Mare en Roumanie
– Vocational high school Profesionalna Gimnaziya po Ikonomicheska Informatika ‘Dzhon Atanasov » de Targovishte en Bulgarie

Six themes of work were chosen and developed throughout the project to treat sustainable development as a whole and make it understood its importance:
– food,
– waste,
– solidarity,
– energy,
– water
– biodiversity.

The project began with an inventory of what is done in each school, it continued with the establishment of workshops to stimulate their motivation and also with practical activities (company visits).
The methods used in the project were non-formal (workshops, peer-to-peer, ‘….) The result developed by our partnership – a collection of resources “Boost your green!”, Intended to increase the motivation of students, combining a teaching kit “Teaching sustainable development” offering lesson plans and ideas for good practice (actions to be implemented at school to promote sustainable development).
By becoming involved in this project, students and staff have understood the importance of participating in actions for sustainable development. In addition, the valuable exchange of good practices and the creation of new teaching methods and materials have enabled teachers to make sustainable development more attractive, thus contributing to students’ success in their lives and showing them what the teamwork and transversal, while guiding them towards eco-citizenship.
The different institutions will also be able to put in place sometimes simple measures for sustainable development and involve other partners such as communities.

In order to achieve its goals, BoosYourGreen held 4 coordinator meetings between teachers and 3 short-term mobility for students.
After these three years of project, for the students as for the teachers, the exchanges were rich: they discovered other cultures, other schools, other ways of learning and other cities. They were proud to report to other delegations on the actions implemented in their school and cope with the language barrier.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 160220 Eur

Project Coordinator

Lycée des Métiers Jules Le Cesne & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Colegiul Tehnic Transilvania
• Profesionalna gimnaziya po ikonomicheska informatika “Dzhon Atanasov”
• Secondary Municipal School Taki Daskalo Bitola
• Escola Profissional Amar Terra Verde
• DISK MESLEKI VE TEKNIK ANADOLU LISESI