ECO-FRIENDLY MAPPING Erasmus Project

Project Title

ECO-FRIENDLY MAPPING

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

Project Summary

Eco-Friendly Mapping is a Project aimed at 15-16 year old students focused on the environment, waste management and greenhouse gas emissions and carried out using the digital applications of a geolocation company (Here Maps) as a resource.
The project will be carried out by an association of four educational centres in the Netherlands, Italy, Portugal and Spain that share both the need for training in digital tools and in environmental awareness of their students. The centres in Italy, the Netherlands and Spain are Secondary Education Schools, while the Portuguese centre is a Vocational School, which will enrich the association by having different pedagogical points of view.
The approximate number of participants will be about 60 students and 8 teachers per centre. Inter-centre communication will be carried out through the eTwinning platform.
The observation of an important deficiency in ecological training in the students of these centres, since they were unaware of the importance of keeping the environment (next to first and most distant in general) clean, was the need that started this project. On the other hand, all the participating centres agreed on the need to establish a European conscience in our students and to promote the development of linguistic competences, so that proposing a transnational project was the best option to achieve our objectives.
In this way, the main axes of this project are structured: environmental awareness, development of ICT skills, acquisition of a European awareness and improvement of language skills. These general objectives are define in the following specific objectives:
– Becoming aware of the real situation of environmental problems and developing an environmental awareness.
– Assuming we belong to the European Union and as members we are engaged to work for a common space.
– Developing the digital competence with an external cartography Enterprise.
– Improving the written and oral skills in English and mother tongue.
– Establishing comparative surveys to adopt good practices.
– Promoting healthy activities for leisure in their close environment as a way of social inclusion.
To achieve these objectives, a series of activities are proposed, using a methodology based on analysis and comparison in order to draw some conclusions to modify our habits.
Some of these activities are:
– Analyze current news and reports about environmental problems surrounding us.
– Studying the local waste management and the relationship between speed limits in different streets and greenhouse gas emissions (studying bio-indicators).
– Suggesting and practising healthy and eco-friendly leisure routes.
– Studying the situation of our rivers and their different species.
– Making a glossary of project-related terms in English and mother tongue.
The final results that are expected to be achieved will be tangible: elaboration of a set of rules of good practice that can be sustained over time (sustainability), a manifesto for the institutions, healthy leisure routes that will be implemented in the mobile geolocation application of the company HERE MAP, a blog with news related to the project, as well as the research work carried out, a glossary in English and in the mother tongues of the partner countries. Non-tangible results: improve language skills and digital competence and environmental awareness, increase motivation in both teachers and participating students exchanging good practices, internationalization (European awareness) of participating institutions.
We foresee an impact of the project in different ways. Firstly, in the closer environment with the changing of personal habits and the implementation of some actions that enhance environmental care on the side of the participants in the project. Secondly, an impact in the environment of the cities object of this project as the results of our surveys will be conveyed to the local and regional institutions such as town halls, regional Government, European Union, etc.
On the other hand, we would like to highlight the impact of this project on our schools and so, in our students and teachers from another point of view. We believe this project can be academically effective as we are going to work this topic interdisciplinary and this means the improvement in skills from quite varied subjects as well as a personal development.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 130755 Eur

Project Coordinator

IES SEFARAD & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Escola Profissional Gustave Eiffel
• Istituto Tecnico Antonio Zanon
• Het Lyceum Rotterdam