Feeding the world in 2050 : aquatic resources Erasmus Project

Project Title

Feeding the world in 2050 : aquatic resources

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 2017

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

Notre Dame d’Izel Vor Primary School left the project very early in October 2018 and was replaced two months later by a new primary school. For partner changes, here are the following

This strategic partnership project, which brings together different structures around the theme of “feeding people in 2050 with aquaculture resources”, has been completed and beyond since it is still ongoing and will continue until at least 2020 thanks the final production of the two films broadcasted in the various European countries. On this occasion the partners from Holland, Ireland and France will meet again around the show proposed in Quimper from 13 to 17 January 2020. Teachers, students, families, business leaders, associations, biologists and local, regional and European institutions will be brought together again to experience this event. This highlight will promote and further disseminate the artistically produced film.
Over the past two years, we have realized that the theme of our project was at the heart of global political concerns with the challenge of feeding 10 billion people in 2050 when one billion people are not getting enough to eat today. In addition to the technological and regulatory levers that make it possible to preserve and regulate resources, this Erasmus+ project focused on social and educational levers: raising consumer awareness about algae and plankton protein resources, while respecting the cultural specificities rooted in food. Aquaculture farms are spread over the territories and prove the new habits and cultures, especially in Brittany. Ancestral fishing practices perpetuate sustainable fishing in the Wadden Sea.
The Irish, Dutch and French partners have succeeded in making the little-known and invisible resources visible through their activities over the two years and their final productions. This universal subject reaches a wide audience beyond the students of the project (from 7 to 21 years old) and adults supervising these young people, parents, families, members of educational teams and local communities have also been sensitized and involved in this vast project. In all, there were more than 1000 people involved in this project, whith the large communities of each partner city.
Each of the European partners has built its journey from its own economic, cultural and local specificities and shared with others. After the setting up of the project initiated in March 2017 with Quimper’s own funds, we ritually met during the various transnational meetings that marked the two years. These transnational meetings were profitable because they cemented the human partnership on strategic project times.

This project questions the future on crucial and fundamental political issues such as fisheries resources for the future, around the topic : “the ocean: a common good?”.
As for the approach, which can be described as innovative, it combines very diversified structures such as schools, CCLA, companies and associations, with multidisciplinary modes such as territorial governance, management, commerce, sciences, chemistry, cooking, graphic arts, body and sound.
The awareness of preserving the marine ecosystem has affected communities such as Belmullet through the final production of the Irish film, the film “Who are you?”, the E-book, the plankton project website, etc. The site makes it possible to follow the partners’ progress, activities and productions as well as their thoughts on the wealth of cultural exchanges made possible by Erasmus+. The pages have been translated in order to facilitate understanding and dissemination to as many people as possible.

For now and in the future, an economic and trade partnership has been established between the Dutch and the Irish to market seaweed soap. A plankton observatory has been created in Savoie near the lake on the model of the Port-Louis observatory in Brittany under the leadership of Pierre Mollo. The Bretons shared with the Irish their knowledge and expertise in aquaculture species. They also made this specific knowledge accessible to the students of Ulis (local unit for the inclusion of young people with disabilities) who cooked plankton and seaweed with the chef of Le Likès. From now on, the project will be rebounded in the different structures in various forms. For example, it is recovered as part of a high school module or gives rise to a 5th grade project involving more than 200 students. An E. twinning project with the 5th is being created at Le Likès in the wake of the PHARE project, for example.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 154008,78 Eur

Project Coordinator

OGEC LE LIKES & Country: FR

Project Partners

• ECOLE NOTRE DAME IZEL VOR
• Redrose Developments Ltd
• Our Lady’s Secondary School
• Communauté de Communes du Lac d’Aiguebelette
• STICHTING VAN HALL LARENSTEIN
• Association Plancton et innovations
• ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE DE NOVALAISE