educational garden/food waste Erasmus Project

Project Title

educational garden/food waste

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: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Social/environmental responsibility of educational institutions; Natural sciences

Project Summary

We are 4 partners, 2 Romanian, 1 Greek and 1 French (coordinating country). We contacted each other through the Etwinning platform and created a whapsap group. Our project is the realization of an educational garden using different techniques such as permaculture, organic… and a cookbook with recipes from the 3 countries and related to the vegetables grown in the gardens. The objectives are : To fight against school failure and avoid the risk of dropping out, to open up towards other horizons, to go beyond our borders by creating virtual exchanges with Etwinning, exchanges of e-mails and physical exchanges with the mobilities. To restore a taste for foreign languages and to approach learning in a different way with a different pedagogy. All the disciplines taught must find their place in this project. Pupils are between 13 and 15 years old. Some of them are failing at school and are on the verge of dropping out. They need to be re-motivated so that they find the desire to stay in class or, for some, to go back to school. This discovery of the world will allow them to open up to a wide range of possibilities for internships abroad and to accept a job in another country more easily or simply to travel. To carry out this project we will work with the 4 partners together with regular exchanges of our practices and pedagogies. We are going to adapt our courses according to our partners to have a coherence in the project. Virtual meetings will be held to make regular assessments. A real exchange will be created between the pupils but also a partnership between the teachers. During the trips, each country will organize visits and activities related to the theme. The acquisition of interpersonal and intercultural skills is a major challenge for the school of tomorrow, with a view to active, thoughtful and responsible participation in social life as a future good citizen.
The sharing of experiences and the synergy of all the members of an educational community – teaching and educational staff, pupils, families, not forgetting external partners such as elected representatives and associations operating in the territory – represent the most effective strategy for achieving all these objectives and consolidating a common sense of belonging in a European dimension.
The partners in this project shared these convictions in order to accompany the pupils in a process of reflection on sustainable development and ecology, with particular attention to the immediate environment where the pupils live. Indeed, this leads to raising awareness of respect for the environment based on the specific case of the school, in order to build a shared social and civic awareness.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 131578 Eur

Project Coordinator

LYCEE PROFESSIONNEL ET TECHNOLOGIQUE LES ROSIERS & Country: FR

Project Partners

• 2o GYMNASIO ALEXANDROUPOLIS
• SCOALA GIMNAZIALA NR.10 GIURGIU
• SCOALA GIMNAZIALA NR.1 TICLENI