Evolución Histórica en el Uso de las Fuentes de Energía Erasmus Project

Project Title

Evolución Histórica en el Uso de las Fuentes de Energía

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 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Health and wellbeing; Environment and climate change; Energy and resources

Project Summary

The three educational centers participating in the project are located in places where energy sources have been very important throughout their history. Living in the area where energy is derived from two coalfields (Puertollano and Bedzin), petroleum (Puertollano) or alternative energy (Chantonnay and Puertollano) constituted a good foundation for our students to do the research . It seemed relevant in the context of the climate change conference held in Paris in late 2015. In fact, the EHUFE project participated in this conference, as some French students were selected to participate at regional, national and international level in the preparatory work for this conference.

The main objectives were to:

• Understand the evolution of energy sources to emphasise the correlation between consumption and industrialization throughout the history of human development.
• Analyse a wide and multidisciplinary use of current energy sources , their applications and cost.
• Educate our students to respect the environment and pursuit sustainable development.

The three schools participating in the project were:
• IES Galileo Galilei Puertollano- coordinating center.
• Lycée Clemenceau Chantonnay-partner center.
• I LO im.Mikolaja Kopernika Bedzin-partner center.

Description of the main activities carried out:

O2: How light is on?
A1: Where does the electricity come from? A detailed study of origins of the sources of electricity. Each center took up the study of two sources of energy.
A2: My magazine of energy. Students created and published a digital magazine for the dissemination of their research in the previous activity.
O3: Training Seminar on applications of energy sources
A1: Cyclic videoconferencing. Three videoconferences on oil (Spain), nuclear power (France) and coal (Poland) were held.
A2: Publication of the proceedings. Students prepared the content and conclusions of the videoconferences for publication in writing and in digital format
O1: Designing network
A1: Learning eXeLearning. An approach to a computer program that allows you to create educational software programme.
A2: Software for energy. Each center has contributed to present minimum two activities that demonstrated the acquired knowledge and could be applied in eXeLearning .
O4: “Turn off the light”
A1: My daily consumption. Conducting a study estimating the energy used by a person in one day and the resources needed to produce it.
A2: How to save energy . The students made several short films that visually showed how to save energy .

The achieved results were:

1. Effective communication in English.
2. Knowledge of the evolution of the use of different forms of energy.
3. Analysis of the forms of energy used in our respective countries.
4. Awareness of the need for sustainable development.
5. Developing topic vocabulary (energy).
6. Teamwork.
7. Participation in debates .
8. Being responsible for one’s own work.
9. Drawing conclusions and self-assessment .
10. Knowledge of the traditions and customs of other countries.

The impact of the project :

First, it is clear that the impact at the local level has been significant. Families and schools benefited from the project and its activities , which was presented by the media. At the regional level we have ensured that the project appeared in the local media , and it was well received and given a lot of attention at the highest institutional levels in our respective regions. Internationally, the aforementioned participation of our French colleagues at the conference on climate change. But above all, and to highlight the impact of the project much more, we could say that there is a before and after in the focus of energy sources and their application for the three institutions involved.

The long-term benefits:

The project activities such as the measurements made by students of the consumption of electricity in schools and household made them take responsibility for decreasing energy consumption. Another benefit was the raised awareness of the finiteness of natural resources and therefore the need for sustainable development. Another long-term benefit is that all the project activities can be used by our institutions as well as by other centers and institutions throughout Europe via the Internet.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 70360 Eur

Project Coordinator

IES Galileo Galilei & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Lycée Clemenceau
• I LO im.Mikolaja Kopernika