CSR spread IN secondary school CLASS Erasmus Project

Project Title

CSR spread IN secondary school CLASS

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Enterprise, industry and SMEs (incl. entrepreneurship); New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

The project has developed an innovative and interactive methodology for the dissemination of CSR in European secondary schools. The rationale behind the project is that the CSR has been identified by the EU institutions and the 2000 Lisbon European Council as a strategic development driver. If CSR is so crucial for the sustainable development of the EU, it is important to make citizens and entrepreneurs aware of this issue. Students are a key objective because they are the entrepreneurs and actors of tomorrow’s society. The project has created a transnational network of secondary schools, responsible companies, public bodies and other representatives of three regions of Italy, Austria and Slovenia with a similar socio-economic structure. The partnership monitored the dissemination of CSR principles and training needs in the territories involved and published the regional and transnational report: ” CSR in class: the spreading of CSR in secondary schools and their territories ” (O1). Starting from the training needs identified by this study, a basic e-learning course on CSR for schoolteachers was developed (O2: Virtual Learning Environment for teachers of secondary school). All the teachers who participated in the project (31 teachers) had to attend the e-learning course. After the training the partners approved the regulation of the intellectual output O3: CSR contest for schools. On the basis of the transnational O1 report, the partnership has chosen the common theme of the competition: the objective 12 of the sustainable development objectives adopted by the United Nations in 2015. Obviously, the theme was declined in three specific themes in each country, depending on the associated partner that proposed the case study. In each country, three winning projects were selected that were illustrated with a power point presentation in English during the LTTA. The transnational and community dimension of the project was also ensured by learning, teaching and training activities: students and teachers and staff visited schools and businesses and participated in workshops and cultural visits with the aim of learning about some good CSR practices and understand the social and economic context in which they are located. Furthermore, participation in the LTTAs was an important opportunity to strengthen the network between students, teachers and project partners and create a transnational community sensitive to CSR issues. The teachers shared the experience of the CSR IN CLASS project with other teachers on the E-twinning portal. After the end of the LTTA, the teachers helped the students prepare their Europass CVs.
The project, coordinated by Unioncamere del Veneto, involved 6 partners: 3 social partners / public bodies: Veneto Region (Italy), Brainplus (Austria) and RAGOR Development Agency (Slovenia) and 3 secondary schools M. Fanno (Italy), B HAK Mürzzuschlag (Austria) and Ekonomska gimnazija in srednja šola Radovljica (Slovenia).

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 255017,95 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIONE REGIONALE DELLE CAMERE DI COMMERCIO INDUSTRIA, ARTIGIANATO E AGRICOLTURA DEL VENETO & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Ekonomska gimnazija in srednja sola Radovljica
• Gimnazija Jesenice
• Razvojna agencija Zgornje Gorenjske
• IZB (Institut für Zukunft und Bildung), Einrichtung mit Rechtspersönlichkeit an der BHAK Mürzzuschlag
• Istituto di Istruzione Superiore Statale “M. Fanno”
• brainplus- Projektmanagement Schabereiter
• REGIONE DEL VENETO