e-SNI CONNECTING SPORT NATURE AND PEOPLE FOR THE PLANET Erasmus Project

Project Title

e-SNI CONNECTING SPORT NATURE AND PEOPLE FOR THE PLANET

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Inclusion – equity; Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

The project “Connecting Sport, Nature and People for the Planet”(e-SNI) is an innovative project combining the practice of an outdoor sport called Orienteering (Course d’Orientation) with personal development and awareness of the environment. This project is an extension of our school’s new sports section. Our middle school, Collège Jules Romains, is situated in a rural area, located in the center of France in the department Haute-Loire. Our natural environment is an ideal place for the development of an activity that has not yet been established at a local level. We would like to introduce young people to this mixed-gender outdoor activity as well as to develop knowledge about the environment. This project is in line with the “objective2030” agenda of the UN in terms of advocating sustainable development. The project aims to develop the notion of tolerance where there is a growing tendancy for people to cling to their cultural identity.

The project objectives are :

– equity and inclusion : mixed-gender teams, including students with disabilities,

– combat early school leaving: help students in difficulty to regain confidence and renew learning objectives,

– having knowledge of one’s territory through a sport activity as a source of openness to others rather than being a withdrawal into oneself,

– orienteering teaches respect of the environment,

– organized sporting practices have local and global and repercussions.

The interest of a transnational project is not only the exchange of practices and the discovery of new enviroments but also to create and cultivate personal development, local development and global consciousness, for example: doing physical activity, supporting local clubs, protecting the environment, learning languages and learning about EU citizenship.

The practice of orienteering is specific in that each participant developes his or her own physical skills at his or her own rhythm while having fun. Competitiveness can be included for those who wish it.

Orienteering is a physical activity that takes place in the open air; it solicits both body and mind.

The objective of the sport is to read a prepared map and find hidden tags in a specific territory all while walking, running, skiing or pedaling. The sport can be done alone or on a team. It can be for fun or for competition. The course can be in nature or in urban areas. This undeveloped activity is for children who have team spirit and like adventure. The physical benefits are respiratory, muscular and cardiovascular. Other capacities developped are endurance, sense of observation and rapid decision making. Because communication between participants is indispensible, it generates necessarily cultural exchanges.

Two mobilities are planned. The first in France and the second in Finland. The two mobilities have identical objectives with similar activities that will build strong links between the two partners. The activities include: the practice of Orienteering in different environments (urban, sports platforms, forests ..) and using different media (on foot, mountain bikes, skis, rollerblades ..), organizing an event where the benefits will be used towards promoting the sport (creating maps, financing transportation to and from competitions …), working with Forest Rangers for learning about the environment (ie. cleaning wooded areas, educational reports, respect for the fauna and flora …), creating an urban Orientation activity including cultural aspects with questions about environment and health. The participants will be the students enrolled in the sports sections and the the project initiators from various disciplines and profiles. The mobilities will be 20 students and 4 teachers. To carry out this ambitious and environmental project: each country will determine

the group of volunteer students and the timetable of activities. The French students participating in the project will meet 2 hours a week.

The e-SNI project for the planet will enable participants to:

– develop their language skills,

– develop knowledge of sports activity,

– develop fair inclusive practices,

– create respect for the environment in relation to local particularities,

– to have a more autonomous and responsible management of oneself.

– to generate an awareness of European citizenship for the Planet.

Project Website

https://sportnaturepeople.blogspot.com/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 23596 Eur

Project Coordinator

COLLEGE JULES ROMAINS & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Kiviniityn koulu