Environmental Green Gate Schools Erasmus Project

Project Title

Environmental Green Gate Schools

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Inclusion – equity; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

This project has emerged from a reflexion done in France by the teachers from my school as regards our envrionment and how we can improve it. Global warming is a main topic here in France with COP 23 and one of our political target. So we have decided to react from our level, starting in our school by doing some local actions as the creation of an association selling local vegetables, bio products in canteen and creation of furnitures made in paper. Aware that it is also an European issue, we have found partners (Lituania, Germany, Romania, Italy and Greece) who have came to the same conclusions as us and who are already doing things/actions in their own school.
Each partner has decided to involve 25 students with a team of around 10 teachers. Students are aged from 12-14 years old as we want to implement a system of tutelage between pairs. There will be no disabled students but as said previously, there will be migrants, refugees, underperfoming students and some from low social classes.
Our main focus is to raise our students’ knowledge on Ecology and how to be responsable and European citizens. We have centered our actions around the notion of new technologies as we are all certain that it can give to our students an interesting background for a futur job, in that domain which hires a lot of people nowadays. Environmental protection is not only a problem of well-being but it has also political and economic outcomes which will be analyzed and commented in this project. An other objective is to give a real and unifying European identity to our students, including those coming from migration. That is why we have decided to include them in this project too. Finally, our last objective is our willingness to share our experiences , first as teachers in order to improve our teaching skills and secondly, as students in the aim to improve their their language skills, to compare different school systems.
In order to answer our objectives, there will be 4 main activities :
– building a botanical wall using local plants and cooking plants. We want to motivate students to reflect on its structure, its watering system, its enlightment and which plants can be used and how (for exemple melliferous plants). A “youtube” tutorial will be done for its dissemination.
– a travel guide for eco European teenagers (which will be sent to the European Parliament): information and survival kit for each country with maps where to find typical plants with some buildings to visit around them.
– creation of wind turbines and solar panels from low cost materials which will be built in each country and particularly in Italy for the Eden park (the green park of the school)
– two digital applications: a European dictionnary of plants and a game based on daily eco-gestures
To be sure to have time to do all these activities, a detailed calendar has been written with monthly objectives for each partner before and after each mobility. We will communicate between us using Etwinning as we already have an assigned Twinspace for this project. There will be reports and summaries regularly done by students, which will be published on our Etwinning site.
Thanks to this project, our schools will have the opportunity to engage in environmental issues for two years and improve tactics already used in each school but also to implement new ones.
The group of students taking part in this project will help other students form their own school to understand what they are working about, what they have learnt about environment, ICT and new technologies. The environmental problem analyzed from different points of view, especially that of energy sparing, will be compared between partners. The issues of the project will be analyzed too. How can we help saving energy at school, at home, in our everyday life? We will ask our students to find ways to answer theses questions and the results will be disseminated not only within the school but also out of it (with the use of media, conferencing and little publications). During the activities abroad, students will live in hosting families, who will help them to understand better the local culture and traditions, improving in the same time their English and learning vocabulary from the partners’ languages. Sharing experience and learning from others, students will gain a stronger feeling of belongingness to the European community, which is especially very important for our migrant students.
The impact on each school will be stronger relationship with parents, by involving them in the workshops and in other project activities; stronger relationship among the teacher teams, by working together in order to accomplish the activities; better image at the local/regional/national level, by promoting the project in the community.
Disseminating the project results, life in the neighbourhood of the school will become greener and more environmental friendly.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 163828,5 Eur

Project Coordinator

COLLEGE GEORGE SAND & Country: FR

Project Partners

• ITT Marconi
• Scoala Gimnaziala Nr.7
• VSI Kauno Juozo Urbsio katalikiska pagrindine mokykla
• Gregor-Mendel-Gymnasium Amberg
• 4o Gymnasio Komotinis