Climate Change- raise awareness – take action Erasmus Project

Project Title

Climate Change- raise awareness – take action

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: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Environment and climate change; Energy and resources

Project Summary

Climate Change- raise awareness – take action
To be able to tackle Climate Change one has to study various environmental problems, which all contribute to global warming. The project focuses on raising more awareness to our energy consumption, to consumerism and waste disposal, water supply and water treatment, on behavioral change of our present lifestyle also dealing with nutritional habits. The objectives of the project are to motivate young people into action and letting them develop creative ideas how to tackle the environmental problems also on a very individual and local basis. Firstly pupils and teachers will concentrate on scientific expertise in all subjects and pupils will also get the chance to meet experts/scientists to get first hand experiences. Then the participants will develop ideas how to tackle the various problems. They will do this in discussions and in creative lessons in the arts, in the languages. All schools will set up Climate Corners, in which the ideas of the pupils of all schools are presented.
The complete school community of all participating schools will be involved in the project. The teachers and pupils at the schools work in their normal lessons in in extra activities. The parents will be involved in dissemation activities and in surveys. The local communities will be involved as the special facilities like waste treatment, public transport, water treatment are also a main focus of local work and these institutions will provide expertise.
A limited number of pupils and teachers will also have the chance to take part in multinational meetings. They are responsible to provide a lot of information about their school activities and they work together at the meetings to create new ideas, to get personal insight into best practice examples. Each participating school will host such a mulitnational meeting with about 6 – 7 participants from each country. By the end of the project there is on meeting for teachers only to evaluate the project and to plan long-term activities. Throughout the project we want to integrate online opportunities as TwinsSpace, school websites, social media channels to draw attention to our project and to make sure the project can still be carried out in case of eventual lock downs.
The project consists of work at a local basis in the participating schools and work done in preparation for mulitnational meetings and of work done during these multinational meetings. Outcomes of the work will be public activities to raise awareness, e.g. a cyclists day, a saving energy week, upcycling waste together, theatre activities, a week when we focus on the carbo footprint of our nutrition and activity days together with local facilities, eg water treatment units, garbage collecting facilities, electricity plants. On TwinSpace and on our schools´websites we will share all acitivities and will learn from each other. Teachers also share their ideas how to address the topic in their lessons, by providing material they used in lessons. To achieve a European impact we not only work together on a European level but we also want to provide our ideas on our schools websites, on the European platform and in social media. The variety of dissemination activities will reach from leaflets, brochures with tips for eco-friendly schools, to video clips with eco-friendly behavioral tips especially designed for pupils. We also want to inspire authorities to develop a qualtiy label for eco-friendly schools.
By organising our environmental multinational meetings we want the pupils to meet experts, to see official activities like waste treatments units themselves and to discuss measures how to help the environment further. The pupils develop ideas how to live a more eco-friendly life and present their ideas in public events.
By working in the project we want to reach a longterm effect at our schools – with better waste disposal systems, careful use of water, energy saving concepts and changes in the use of means of transport by the school partners – teachers, pupils and parents.
The most important objective we want to reach is to raise more public awareness for the environment and to help people to motivate themselves to change their daily routines into more eco-friendly ones.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 172160 Eur

Project Coordinator

BRG Wels Wallererstraße & Country: AT

Project Partners

• Gimnazija Skofja Loka
• Geschwister-Scholl-Schule
• Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace im prof. Zbigniewa Religi w Gilowicach
• TSG a ZS, s.r.o.
• Second English Language School “Thomas Jefferson”