Cooler Climate Challenge Erasmus Project

Project Title

Cooler Climate Challenge

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: Social/environmental responsibility of educational institutions; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

CCC-Cooler Climate Challenge is a 24-month project which started at KA1 mobility in 2019 where teachers from participating schools met. Thanks to this friendship the cooperation started. It was found out that the schools from the Czech Republic, Canary Islands and Hungary have a lot in common. One of the most important topics at schools is Ecology and Protection of the Environment. All the schools follow the 17 Sustainable Development Goals created by the UN Assembley.
Our project aims specificaly at one of the goals – The Climate Action. The project´s key activities are R-activities: Recycling, Reducing and Renewing and Reusing.
The objectives to be achieved are exchanges of good practices and teaching experience, raising awareness of changes in the climate and environment, promotion of multiculturalism, enrichment of social skills, improvement of linguistic competences, getting green skills and having better prepared and skilled citizens.

The project consists of E-twinning activities, Teachers´s trainings and Students´s mobilities.
24 students (15-18 years old) and 6 teachers participate in every mobility, 12 teachers participate in every project training. Also other students take part in E-twinning activities. Other teachers, school management, school staff, families and parents and local community are involved too.
Project activities comply with the project´s objectives. Introductory eTwinning activities are followed by teacher training in the Czech Republic (C1) focused on Recycling and how to recycle properly. The topic is worked on in student mobility in the Czech Republic (C2). Second part takes place in Tenerife (C3 – Teacher training, C4 – Student mobility). The topic is Renewing and Reducing. Third part takes place in Hungary (C5 – Teacher training, C6 – Student mobility) and the topic is Reusing.
Other project activities including Preparations, Communications, Disseminations and Final Summary run throughout the whole project.

The methodology of the project is based on trainings and workshops, observation, searching for information on the internet, collecting, sorting out and comparing information and material, discussions, teamwork, creating, observing professionals at work, sharing information.

The final outcomes are educational brochures, leaflets, a calendar, green wall documentary, trade fair and fashion show and INFORMED, INVOLVED and ACTIVE students and teachers.

This project increases general knowledge, knowledge about the protection of the environment and motivates to learn foreign languages and improves the art of negotiation, discussion, emphaty and collaboration. It raises awareness not only of the region or country but also of other involved countries by sharing experiences, positive awareness of similarities and differences. The project meets the interests of all participants, they improve their communicative skills exchanging ideas with others and working together and are encouraged to work together to protect our planet.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 91720 Eur

Project Coordinator

Obchodní akademie T. G. Masaryka, Kostelec nad Orlicí, Komenského 522 & Country: CZ

Project Partners

• Kürt Alapítványi Gimnázium
• IES EL MEDANO