#globalgoalsambassadors – European teens fighting for a better future Erasmus Project

Project Title

#globalgoalsambassadors – European teens fighting for a better future

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: Environment and climate change; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

In 2015 world leaders agreed to 17 goals for a better world by 2030. To deliver the Global Goals in this short time the UN secretary- general Antonio Guterres called on all sectors of society for a decade of action. Schools play a central role in making the SDGs more popular and we have to help students act not only on a local but also on a European and global level because pressing issues like for example climate change transcend country borders and affect us all. It is not enough to teach about the SDGs. As global problems will only be solved when working together, in our project we want to learn from and talk with different businesses, politicians and organizations.
We, five schools from Czech Republic, Finnland, Germany, Italy and Spain, want to implement the Sustainable Development Goals in our school life and make European teenagers aware of them. We want to teach them why they are important and give the subject the attention it deserves.The students aged 15 to 18 will find out what is being done in their communities already and how they can get active themselves. They will communicate their newly acquired knowledge to their peers by means of several media catered (especially) for teenagers like for example Instagram or podcasts or in other words: becoming ambassadors.
Our project consists of 5 student mobilities – each one having a different focus and concentrating on different Sustainable Development Goals.
During the mobilities the students will take part in workshops, meet experts to learn about the SDGs and work in international groups on the different products. Later the students will multiply the results at their schools. That way in the course of the project work, the students will acquire basic skills for participation in society and in the global context and media literacy.
Furthermore, we will include a teacher training at the beginning of the project which will equip teachers with background knowledge about social media and podcasting. The results, Instagram and podcasts, are expected to be plurilingual. The students will practice their foreign language skills, can help each other and will experience that speaking many different languages is part of European identity.
At the end of the project students present their results in a variety of contexts such as their own school, school open days, other schools, including primary schools in their areas and local events so that many can profit. Also we plan to present all the material in a digital exhibition at school or in the town hall to which we will invite representatives of organisations, local politicians, students and teachers. Furthermore, the project results will be disseminated in the local and regional press, on social media such as Twitter, Instagram or Facebook and in teacher training courses so that other educational institutions can also benefit from them. Through eTwinning the results of the project will be permanently available.
All the activities carried out will eventually help to sensitize students, parents & teachers to the topic of climate change and will lead to a revision of our school concepts attaching more importance to climate change and the global goals.
In summary, the project “#globalgoalsambassadors – European teenagers fighting for a better future” provides an innovative educational offer that builds on the SDGs as a conceptual context for learning in order to enable students to develop 21st century skills and to apply them in a real world context to make our planet a better place.

Project Website

https://twinspace.etwinning.net/109423/home

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 157759 Eur

Project Coordinator

Gymnasium Sanitz & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Stredni odborna skola pro administrativu Evropske unie, Praha 9, Lipi 1911
• Karkun evankelinen opisto
• Liceo classico linguistico scienze umane Mamiani
• EGB RAMIRO IZQUIERDO, S.A.