Exchange for change Erasmus Project

Project Title

Exchange for change

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: Energy and resources; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

“Exchange for change” is the title of a two year multilateral school partnership between Finland, France, Portugal and Sweden. Global climate change affects the whole world. There is so much information and disinformation about it, so many ways to think and behave. Many pupils are worried and want to act correctly so that the environment and coming generations will have a future. By this project the pupils will pay more attention in their own consumption habits, find and get information about sustainable development from different point of views and share and evaluate it with the pupils from other participating organisations. By working together in European level they will have more tolerance and understanding to other cultures.

The objectives in this project are: 1. Foster in students and participating organisations appreciation and understanding of the impact their way of life is having on the sustainability of environment. 2. To produce the concrete results of how much the pupils consume food, clothes, paper, energy and water, so that they notice the importance of knowledge and science and sense of responsibility for own behavior. 3. To increase the tolerance and knowledge of other cultures and languages.

There are four schools participating this project: one upper secondary school, Laihian lukio from Finland, two secondary schools, Charles Bruneau from France and the school of Nyheden from Sweden, and one big cluster of several schools Agrupamento de Escolas D. Maria II from Portugal. The participating pupils will be ages 14 – 17. Laihian lukio is the smallest school with 120 students and Agrupamento de Escolas D. Maria II is the biggest with 2200 students. Charles Bruneau is very experienced in using eTwinning and has a Quality label in Sustainable Education. Agrupamento de Escolas D. Maria II has a lot of experience in different kind of science projects and environmental issues in national level. Nyheden and Laihian lukio are experienced in organizing school trips to foreign countries and in both countries the environmental goals are very important. Laihian lukio has also university courses in physics for the students.

This project’s first activity is three days eTwinning-training to teachers (Teacher’s meeting). To other four activities every school will have alternating six students and two teachers to participate for five days. The themes to LTT-activities are consumption overall, specially food and clothes (Less is more), paper (Paperless), energy (Switch on) and water (Refresh our heads ). In every LTT-activities there will also be a visit to a power plant.
Between the mobilities the pupils will have smaller projects about the themes which are instructed and shared in eTwinning, so there will be activity also between the mobilities. There will be also a questionnaire about consumption in the beginning of the project and the other in the end of the project, so it’s easier to evaluate the results of the project.

This project underlines the importance of knowledge and science. The pupils will collect information about their own and school’s habits of consumption and also general information about consumption. This information is shared, compared and discussed with the pupils from other countries in eTwinning before, during and after every LTT-activity. Also the experiences from the project will be collected at least from the pupils and teachers who are participating to this project, but if possible from larger groups of people from the participating organisations, for example from hosting families. The knowledge will give the pupils tools to protect the environment.

Our mutual object in this project is foster in students and participating organisations appreciation and understanding of the impact their way of life is having on the sustainability of environment. During this two years project the pupils will pay more attention to their consumption habits and it’s influences to environment not only in personal and school level but also in areal and European level. This information will be distributed to every participating organisation in some forms, so it will influence more than only the participators.
By researching things the pupils will have tools to separate information from disinformation. And when they do all this together with European partners they will also get tools to work with people from other countries also in the future.
The participating organisations will get valuable experience of global education and collaboration, which inspires to develop global education furthermore also in future.

With this project “Exchange for chance” we would like to make the world a better place to all of us. It is a huge aim, but it can only be accomplished by individuals working together with objectives and activities, which reach for the healthier environment and sustainable way of living. This project hopefully points out that eveyone can do many things that helps the environment.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 111390 Eur

Project Coordinator

Laihian lukio & Country: FI

Project Partners

• Nyhedens skola
• Collège Charles Bruneau
• Agrupamento de Escolas D. Maria II – Vila Nova de Famalicão