Clean tech and green energy Erasmus Project

Project Title

Clean tech and green energy

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 school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Energy and resources; Research and innovation; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

Period(s) of project-work respectively academic seminars are fixed parts of the school year at the technical upper secondary school in Ballerup, Denmark as well as at the BOS Scheyern Bavaria, (a vocationally oriented upper secondary school). During those phases (teams of) students – partly in cooperation with businesses and universities – work on finding answers to technical problems respectively academic questions. The idea of the COMENIUS project was to interconnect the Danish periods of project-work and the Bavarian seminar-period and to focus on the future-oriented topics energy and sustainability.
The project aimed to point out the relevance of international cooperation especially regarding the given topic. Moreover it intended to increase the subject knowledge as well as technical and general English language competence of the participating students and teachers. Their problem-solving-strategies within an intercultural context were meant to improve as their insight into differences in geographical, social, political and legal circumstances as well as differences in mentality grew. All that is meaningful for the labor market. Last but not least the project seeked to uplift the subject and methodological competence of the teachers involved by means of mutual observation and exchange of experiences.
Each year eight Bavarian students accompanied by two teachers traveled to Denmark for five working days in September to present their seminar-papers dealing with energy and sustainability. Those presentations served as impulse to commonly develop further questions which the Danish students consecutively worked on during their project-period. The solutions the Danish students come up with were then made known to the Bavarian 13-graders and the future seminar students at a return visit of a Danish delegation (10 students and 2 teachers) in Bavaria in February/March of the following year. The talks and demonstrations of the Danish students were once again incentive for further academic queries of the following relay team. Presentations and discussions were held in English. The mobilities were at the same time used to visit topic relevant institutions and companies in the host-country and to deepen the newly gained knowledge in cooperative workshops. The platform eTwinning was used for the exchange of information, for communication and for the publication of results. Preparation for the mutual visits were carried out within each school. Likewise within each school students who wanted to participate needed to apply.
Aspired results were first of all the final products of the projects and the seminar papers, which were evaluated by the supervising teachers, secondly an individual gain in competence of the students and teachers involved. This has a positive effect on their chances on the labor market respectively on the education system and thus is of use to future classes.
All students documented their progress in the Europass Curriculum Vitae and Language Passport. Within the “Bildungsregion” (educational region) Pfaffenhofen and Ingolstadt the results were spread to other schools and educational institutions by the various regional teams, in Denmark this happened within the TEC organization and its network.
Exceding the original plan every learning, teaching and training activity was also used to train the students in project work with the projects being drafted by their teachers.That lead to a clear gain in methodological competence of the teachers and students alike.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 75930 Eur

Project Coordinator

Staatliche Berufsoberschule Scheyern & Country: DE

Project Partners

• TEKNISK ERHVERVSSKOLE CENTER