CONsciousNEss ConnecTing INterational Groups WITH Nutrition and ArchitecTURE Erasmus Project

Project Title

CONsciousNEss ConnecTing INterational Groups WITH Nutrition and ArchitecTURE

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: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Environment and climate change; Teaching and learning of foreign languages

Project Summary

The main motive of our project is to rise the environmental awareness of our students. Our students are 13 to 16 years old and often come from families with non-academic background. Unfortunately they are not always very motivated neither when it comes to working and studying for school nor when it comes to civic engagement. While students of the neighbouring grammar schools support the Fridays for Future demonstrations in our towns our students often seem not to bother about the destruction of our nature. The lack of knowledge and interest in environmental consciousness and weak achievements in English exams led to the idea of finding a way in which we could raise the interest in nature as well as in foreign languages. Our students frequently seem to be just interested in new computer games and new developments in their mobile phones and they seem not to realise that their own future is at stake.

As our new educational policy wants us to use digital gadgets in our lessons we decided that our new project should deal with that lack in interest in ecology by exploiting our students’ interest in technology. We want them to attend seminars given by external experts on various topics connected to environmental protection and sustainable living. Each school will nominate 15 students and then send five students on the short time exchanges to each of the partner schools in Denmark, Germany, Greece and Spain. The students are preparing the educational exchanges by attending seminars at local universities and other educational institutions on various topics connected to locally produced organic seasonal food, ecological architecture and sustainable agriculture. They will transform the input they gained there into peer-to-peer teaching lessons in English. When they travel abroad they are going to teach their peers the seminars they had attended before. So they are going to prepare these lessons in English and enhance their English skills. While travelling and hosting they’ll foster their (inter)cultural awareness and understanding. The seminars they produced are going to be published on Twinspace and in a booklet. This booklet will be a guideline about sustainable living.

The students will have to create short videos (in English) in which they are presenting the preparation of typical specialities made from locally produced organic food or the creation of an allotment “Erasmus-garden” where the students plant seeds from all participating countries. They are going to build nesting boxes for bats and birds or wildflower meadows. Another result is the Instagram-profile on which all the results are presented.
While taking part in the project we are going to apply for membership in the ecoschools association. This will be a lasting result and enhance our schools’ quality too. Besides our schools will create a new/updated version of their internationalisation strategies.

Project Website

https://twinspace.etwinning.net/123708/home

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 98706 Eur

Project Coordinator

Staatliche Wirtschaftsschule Dinkelsbühl & Country: DE

Project Partners

• 1o EPAGGELMATIKO LYKEIO LECHAINON
• IES Bajo Cinca
• Tømmerup Fri- og Efterskole