ENERGYTECH JOURNEY Erasmus Project

Project Title

ENERGYTECH JOURNEY

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage; Energy and resources

Project Summary

ENERGYTECH JOURNEY is a project about energy. Energy is what makes our world move in many senses. Any device we can think of needs energy to work or to be manufactured and for that very reason, the use, and development of different energy sources has become a hot issue. Conventional sources are being used up and the planet is being devasted while sucking out every single drop. New sources are being researched and tested in an attempt to discover cleaner and more efficient sources that can be renewed so we can stop devastation and can become energetically independent.
The project is aimed to keep in touch teachers and children from 5 European countries: the Czech Republic, Cyprus, Greece, Latvia, and Spain with common interests ( in teaching methods, technology and science, teaching Languages through content)but different experiences to face challenges related to:
-The curriculum and the development of basic and transversal skills: we will address a very latest topic which offers a great chance to be dealt with through the use of technology and STEM projects. We expect pupils to become aware that energy is everywhere around them, that there are different sources of energy with different uses and different consequences and to learn about the past, present and expected future of energy. It is not an easy task. That is why we want to motivate students to feel curiosity and wonder, we want to elicit their questions and help them find answers. We want them to learn by experimenting, and to feel the need of knowledge, which leads us to our second challenge:
-Teaching methods; we will use a PBL approach that: will gather formal, non- formal and informal learning to develop all kinds of competences; will focus on a global work avoiding subject division and passive learning; and will be closer to enterprising research than to a formal class. This active learning will include: researching ( reading, interviewing, visiting facilities, taking part in workshops…), organising information ( using surveys, charts, graphs, …) making models , getting to conclusions ( producing infographics, dossiers..) , presenting their work ( using websites, videoconferences, ppt, prezi, written data…) and evaluating results (surveys, meetings, self evaluation…). Not only that, but because it is a European project, students, teachers and families in an indirect way, will have an incomparable frame to learn foreign languages born from the need to communicate in a real context.
– European identity: cooperation among different European schools, will enhance European dimension. Students and teachers will build the idea of a close Europe from which they are a part and will learn to work together to get common aims, avoiding any kind of stereotypes. This is a very important step towards future work mobilities and to overcome stationary positions and the reticence to move from home in the search of work opportunities.
-Cultural heritage: Each community will contribute with different experiences and a different heritage related to the topic and to other cultural facts . This, will make possible to have a wider overview and to be benefited by diversity. It will also help participants being more respectful and tolerant towards the unknown.
– Involvement: to guarantee a successful project, we will need high involvement and preparation. We will carry out close monitoring of the project with a continuous evaluation to reconduct when necessary, and the use of any means at hand to achieve our objectives including visits, technology, workshops, books, seminars … This will only be possible with the help of the whole community.
We expect that by the time we finish this project, schools will have improved the use of PBL and STEM creations, as well as the skills to communicate in a foreign language, and that they will feel more confident to make wider use of that learning. We also expect that our work will be useful to many groups and educators who will have access to the results through different platforms like Twinspace and Erasmus + project platform.
The most important idea we want to communicate through the project is that :
– Education involves curiosity, innovation,continuous research and evaluation to offer the best context to students.
– Learning is a non-border process and not only in geographical terms but also in terms of resources, time, place and mates.
– Cooperation and teamwork is essential to achieve aims.
– Every experience brings learning and it is our duty as educators not only to provide students with as many different experiences as possible in the most varied contexts (especially those pupils who will never have the chance to live certain situations) but also to establish the frame to improve ourselves in a life-long learning process. Setting a net of European teachers that have already worked together will easy the way to undertake new Erasmus and e-Twinning experiences.

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EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 154981 Eur

Project Coordinator

ZUBIALDELHI & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Saldus pamatskola
• Periferiako Demotiko Sxoleio Peristeronas
• Dimotiko Sxoleio Agias Marinas Neas Makris
• Zakladni skola a Materska skola Klic s.r.o.