European Students for sustainibility Erasmus Project

Project Title

European Students for sustainibility

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

Project Summary

Climate change and global warming is engaging young people all over the world and today we can see hundreds of thousands students in school strikes all over the world, this in the frames of “Friday for future”. UNICEF has sought to integrate sustainable development into ongoing programs that engage young people in local action. Global warming and climate change is also one of the key targets in EU 2020 and in UN:s agenda 2030 for sustainable development. Therefore, there is a need of developing strategies and education-tools for working with education for sustainable development (ESD). It is also necessary to make it easier, in the school framework for young people in Europe to find ways to exchange ideas and to collaborate in this field. This project, when teachers’ and students´ from different European countries develop tools and network together promotes this process.

This project has three objectives:

1. Improve education for sustainable development (ESD) for upper secondary schools.
This we will do by sharing good practise in how we work with a teacher guide for working with (ESD) that we created in our former project. Our work will end up in an annex to the guide and that will help us to improve our and other schools work in this field. The content of the annex will be improvement and comments of the now existing activities, but also new activities. All schools have different expert areas and from these areas we will learn from each other and that will develop and improve the teacher´s guide. This objective is linked to environmental and climate goals and pedagogy and didactics.

2. Getting better knowledge about how students experience education for sustainable development.
This we will achieve by doing an evaluation among the students. The evaluation will be supervised by Ulrika Bergmark, (female), Associate Professor, Luleå technical university. In the beginning of the project we will create a questionary that we will distribute to the students and the results will be processed during the project time. To follow up the results from the questionary we will also do five depth interviews with students, in each school. The result will be a part of the annex and also a part of the final report. This objective is linked to environmental and climate goals and pedagogy and didactics.

3. Creating a network of “Sustainable schools” monitored by students.
The schools in this project will be the “base” in the network, but the aim is that more schools can join later.
One of the central things for the network is a digital platform. A platform that supports, promotes and give ideas for a “green lifestyle”

Activities:
There will be five schools from five different countries participating. Sweden, (Piteå), Slovakia (Zilina), Italy (Parma), Spain (Cambrils) and Greece (Kos). The schools have been chosen because of their interest and knowledge in the field. The project will contain six opportunities with common teacher training and five students´ exchange, one in each country. The activities will be supervised by the hosting school. Each training week/student exchange will have different themes, connected to the work in the school with ESD and to the schools special competences in this field. Between the activities teachers and students will continue to work on their own schools, using what they have learned at the exchange and at the training.To support this process we will create a virtual place where participants could exchange ideas and best practise. We will also work with E-twinning, this for exchanging knowledge and ideas among our students and teachers.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 158827 Eur

Project Coordinator

Strömbackaskolan Piteå & Country: SE

Project Partners

• 2nd Lyceum of Kos
• LICEO ATTILIO BERTOLUCCI
• Gymnázium
• INS LA MAR DE LA FRAU