Education about climate changes Erasmus Project

Project Title

Education about climate changes

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: Environment and climate change; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

Our two secondary schools, in Sweden and Italy, have earlier successfully worked together on an Erasmus project on the topic of Energy (2018-2020). We have found our first collaboration a source of precious learning and professional stimuli and have decided that there were the ideal conditions to embark on a new challenge, indeed a bigger one, that would try to respond to the urgent need and demand for wide-scope, good, deep, scientifically sound and technically informative education on the topic of Environmental issues and Climate Changes. To work with ENVIRONMENTAL AND CLIMATE CHANGES is a common goal, but we have different conditions in Sweden and Italy; environmental, cultural, economic and political. The EU policies concerning climate changes are the same for both countries, but national curriculum and schools deal with the issue in different ways. This project will increase a sense of solidarity and shared responsibility. It is important for students to have scientific knowledge and international understanding of the issue to gain greater freedom of democratic action – what to do as an individual, as part of a national and an international society, as a representative and elected politician or as an activist.
This project´s objectives are
– to give students scientific knowledge and an international perspective on the topic of Environment and climate changes, so they can actively be a part of a positive development of this topic.
– to give the teachers opportunities to cooperate in their schools and between countries, to make the implementation of this topic in our schools in a sustainable plan.
The projects activities will be digital meetings between teacher (also in real life if budget allows us) and four short-term exchanges for students. We will have preparation meetings between teachers with different subjects; Physics/Mathematics, Biology/Chemistry, English, History and Social studies. In our preparation we will also have one representative from Motala municipality, official working as an Environmental strategist, and this will give us a lot of opportunities to adapt the content of the project to current and local environmental problems and also disseminate the results of the project.
Together we will work out multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary teaching about the topic Climate changes. The project is innovative for our schools because it focuses on ICT learning, English practice in other subject and involves students and teachers to create new methodology in education.
Throughout the projec teachers will continuously plan, implement and evaluate common lessons and the exchanges of students in each other’s countries. We will have the project on two school years, to be able to adjust the experience and to enhance/enrich its scope, amend it if necessary, after the first year; and to offer the possibility to participate to a larger number of students by involving two classes in two subsequent years. Every year both schools will have at least 18 students which will take part in the project. Totally 72 students will actively take part in this two-year project. Both the Swedish and Italian schools will have students from Science programs. Students from the Swedish school are doing their second year and they are 17 – 18 years old. We have chosen a class were some of the students have the NANA branch with lots of science and some of the students have the NASA branch with a little more social science. Students from Italian school are doing their second year and they are 16 – 17 years old.
Our common lessons and students exchanges will give students scientific knowledge, from both natural and social sciences, about climate changes. Students will use this scientific knowledge to ICT; discuss, debate, write scientific and political posts, everything in English. As one of the methodologies with this aim the students will act in a roleplay. The roleplay will have different roles; “climate skeptical”, “scientist”, “politicians” and “activists”. All communication will be in English. We will invite other students and teachers, media, politicians and NGO to be audience.
This project will share international common values, give civic engagement and actively participation in such a very important topic as Climate changes is. Our schools will develop, together with students, multidisciplinary and interactive teaching with digital tools/ICT, that will be implemented in cross-curriculum in a sustainable plan.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 65120 Eur

Project Coordinator

Platengymnasiet & Country: SE

Project Partners

• LICEO SCIENTIFICO STATALE “ALDO MORO”