Climate protection and education for sustainable development in a school context Erasmus Project

Project Title

Climate protection and education for sustainable development in a school context

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Energy and resources; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

Climate protection and education for sustainable development in the school context
The Robert Havemann Gymnasium is the only grammar school in Berlin to have four special student laboratories and a learning workshop, which have been set up in addition to the science rooms.

In the context of “Environment and Climate Protection”, the “Solar Laboratory” offers student experiments on solar energy for groups of students from primary and secondary schools.
In the “Energy Laboratory I” there are many motivating experiments on the subject of energy (wind energy, hydroelectric power plants, heat pumps, hydrogen technology, geothermal energy, solar thermal energy, etc.).
In the “Energy Laboratory II” there are many experiments on energy conversion and efficiency.
In the student laboratory “Environment and Computer Science” students learn to program single-chip computers (BBC-Microbit, Calliope, Raspberry Pi) and use them for measurement purposes.
In our “Energy Learning Workshop”, groups of students can build functional models of solar vehicles, wind power plants, solar collectors, etc. under the professional guidance of a workshop manager.
We are integrated into the network of Schülerlabore Berlin-Brandenburg (GenaU), cooperate with several universities and colleges (FU Berlin, TU Berlin, TH Brandenburg) and are involved in teacher training programs through the Senate Department for Education, Youth and Science of Berlin.
We cooperate with educational institutions (e.g. UfU, Stratum) on a project-related basis and are networked with extracurricular institutions (Institute for Solar Energy Research, MNU-Berlin).
In addition to school classes from 19 partner schools, school classes from all over Berlin can visit our facility. We regularly conduct teacher training courses at our institution and offer workshops at advanced training events for teachers.
Within the framework of projects, we train students at our school to become energy managers who actively use measuring devices to determine energy-saving potential at school and make a contribution to climate protection by making sensible suggestions for energy saving.
By combining the natural sciences with climate and environmental protection, these projects also contribute to career and study orientation.
Within the framework of the Erasmus+ program, we have worked with two partner schools from Greece and Poland on climate and environmental protection
The following objectives should be pursued:
– international cooperation on climate protection at the level of
educational institutions
– Exchange of ideas and projects from the participating countries
– Improving science education and integrating digital projects (e.g. use and programming of single-chip computers)
– Integration of climate protection, environmental protection and renewable energies into the curricula of national educational institutions
– Integration of climate and environmental protection into teacher training and teacher education measures
– Linking of school and out-of-school partners in the respective countries
– Integration of measures for vocational and study orientation (also with new occupational profiles in connection with environmental/climate protection and renewable energies)
– Getting to know each other’s educational systems and the reality of life in the participating countries.
During the working meetings in Berlin (Germany) and Archanes (Crete, Greece), we dealt with student projects on energy saving, photovoltaics (with student experiments), e-mobility (with student experiments), data acquisition with single-chip computers, 3d printing, solar thermal energy, climate protection projects, solar-mobile and various environmental protection projects, with the involvement of non-school organizations and universities.
The planned working meeting in Poland and the final working meeting of the participating teachers for evaluation in Berlin could not take place due to the corona pandemic.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 65770 Eur

Project Coordinator

Robert-Havemann-Gymnasium & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Zespol Szkol im. M. Rataja w Goscinie
• GENIKO LYKEIO ARCHANON