ECO ARTISTIC CHALLENGES Erasmus Project

Project Title

ECO ARTISTIC CHALLENGES

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: Creativity and culture; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

How can we act concretely to meet the enormous environmental challenge facing us? How can we reduce our carbon footprint and provoke this approach with as many people as possible?

The erasmus + “school exchanges” program offers us a great opportunity to meet this challenge while bringing together the maximum number of young European students. We will launch this great challenge to three high schools and 60 students, coming from Cyprus, Spain, France.

Our approach is based on the concept of ecological challenges, takes the form of artistic productions staging these challenges and is assessed by the carbon footprint measured individually and collectively for the participants in the project.

We want to live and bring to life a positive common history of European eco-citizens. This story will have for scenario a group of young Europeans who meet for the first time through social networks and who will try to take up ecological challenges to reduce their carbon footprint. From the chaos of departure through their quest to a reduction in their carbon footprint a year after their first meeting, the students will transmit many emotions and will take up multiple challenges. Despite their efforts and reduction of this footprint, their trips to meet in the first year in Cyprus, Spain and France consumed a lot of natural energy and they will therefore be isolated in restriction cells by the European administration. In the second year, to get out and escape from these cells, they will have to take up puzzles, challenges and will reduce their co2 spending even more. Once out they will capture the co2 emitted by planting trees and acting to reforestation.

This story will be the common thread of the targeted artistic productions: two short films and two live arts shows mixing cinema, slam, dance, music and the visual arts. These productions will highlight and communicate the ecological challenges successfully experienced by the students:
recycling of waste in dress / decorations
ecological advocacy in English, Spanish, French
personal travel by soft transport means
actions to reduce co2 emissions at school and at home
replanting trees.

These challenges will aim at reducing our carbon footprint but will also serve to strengthen the language skills of students with a view to useful and positive communication.
They will help prepare students to be future adults involved in this cause.
They will put into perspective the artistic skills acquired by the students.

The choice of the artistic dimension seems important to us because it offers students the opportunity to express themselves, to engage, to touch, to influence the maximum of people. We hope that this project will raise awareness in actions of the larger school, family, friendly and professional networks. This is the reason why we imagined the activities both as a step in the overall process but also as mini communication events serving as landmarks and instant flash.

Our three high schools will be the driving forces of an expected widening community. Indeed, we will launch the challenges experienced by the students, teachers and partners of our project on etwinnings. We will broadcast our artistic productions live on etwinnings as well.

Thus our project will be the sum of ecological challenges which will be preparatory to the artistic productions which will mark out the stages of our common history.

Each year, we will make a short film in Cyprus, a live arts show in Spain and finally a final show merging the first two productions in France.

The pupils and teachers of the three high schools will have made the choice among three options: option 1: English French short film, option 2: Spanish French dance music slam visual arts or option 3: no mobility in another country and participation in production artistic at home.

We will invite all the educational and professional communities during the artistic productions which will finalize the mobilities. During these mobilities we will also organize erasmus + days where the students of the project will bring the challenges to life for the other students of their high school.

Social networks and communication tools will disseminate the challenges achieved, finalized artistic productions and the carbon footprint will be the result evaluated each month.

In the end, through this project our students, the active adults of the project but also the entire network of the project will feel more European thanks to strengthened linguistic and communication skills but also thanks to their civic engagement in the service of a fundamental common environmental cause for everyone’s future.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 98843 Eur

Project Coordinator

Centre Régional d’Etudes, d’Enseignement, de Formation et d’Insertion & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Archbishop Makarios III Lyceum – Dasoupoli
• Institut Castellet