Education for Sustainable Development: Make it Work! Erasmus Project

Project Title

Education for Sustainable Development: Make it Work!

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: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Pedagogy and didactics; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

Since 2012, colleges and high schools in Germany, France, Poland and now Ukraine are taking part in a pedagogical education project combining education for sustainable development and international solidarity with education in plurilingual citizen debate , Climat_Klima_Klimat (C2K). C2K is at its peak during an annual European conference simulating an international negotiation on a subject of sustainable development. Four of these schools, located between the 50th and 51st parallels of north latitude, are in disadvantaged border areas (FR / EN / BE, DE / PL, PL / CZ / SK and Ukraine at the borders of Europe) and they do appreciate in particular the annual impact of this pedagogical action on their schools, their teaching staff and their pupils: efficient and innovative teaching and evaluation, development of entrepreneurship, encouragement of critical thinking through science teaching in an environmental and cultural context, a comprehensive and integrated approach to language teaching.

The Strategic Partnership for Innovation in School Education Sustainable Development Education: Make It Work (EDD: MIW) has a fourfold objective from the beginning of 2017 to the summer of 2020: 1 / perpetuate the pedagogical action initiated in 2012, 2/ innovate by fully introducing the cartography of controversies and to renew the modalities of the debate by opening it up to non-State and non-human entities 3 / to disseminate this pedagogical action to potential new partners in the action and even to allow the transfer of this action and encourage other partnerships, and finally 4 / encourage and above all facilitate the continuation and dissemination of the action by methodological capitalization and professional development of the key players.

EDD: MIW firstly brings together educational staff from four schools in Germany, France, Poland and the Ukraine, already involved in the educational activity and their project partners in Europe. EDD: MIW perpetuates the strategic support granted to C2K by le rectorat de l’Académie de Lille and link it to financial and managerial support now granted by the public interest group of this academy, GIP FCIP, the candidate of the partnership . EDD: MIW perpetuates non-formal education assistance granted to C2K by an international solidarity association and adds to it the international scientific contribution of the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques as well as the technical contribution of a university department for digital innovation and pedagogical accompaniment.
The activities programmed by EDD: MIW are primarily educational activities in schools, with a reflexive and documentary extension. In May each year, an exchange of short-term student groups corresponds to the European conference simulating an international negotiation, within a relevant European or international organization. Each year, the joint training event makes it possible to systematically pool the practices and teaching tools relevant to EDD: MIW, to improve them and to jointly develop the intellectual productions targeted. Three digital intellectual productions will be developed and presented at three multiplier events: the EDD: MIW workshop, the EDD: MIW method and the cartography of controversies for EDD: MIW.

The strategic partnership EDD: MIW perpetuates, deepens, develops, capitalizes and disseminates the best of the five-year sequence of C2K projects. It does so for the benefit of the four schools involved and their project partners in Europe, including their politico-administrative, associative and academic partners. It does this by facilitating and encouraging, through the provision of collaborative, multilingual and qualified educational resources, the free entry of new schools in Europe into this type of educational activity, combining education for sustainable development and international solidarity with education to the plurilingual citizen debate. It wants to become a strategic, sustainable, efficient and equitable partnership in Europe, under the sign of the Paris Declaration of 15 March 2015 on the promotion of education for citizenship and the common values of freedom, tolerance and non-discrimination.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 184440 Eur

Project Coordinator

GIP FCIP “Education et Formation tout au long de la vie” & Country: FR

Project Partners

• FONDATION NATIONALE DES SCIENCES POLITIQUES
• Zespol Szkol Ogolnoksztalcacych nr 1 w Katowicach
• Le Partenariat
• Collège de l’Europe ARDRES
• Augustum-Annen-Gymnasium Görlitz
• rectorat academie de Lille
• UNIVERSITE DE LILLE