Go green Erasmus Project

Project Title

Go green

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 2019

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

Climate change and a rising demand for energy and water are just some of the challenges that present and future generations will face. At the same time, as the digital world becomes more technical, the process of globalization, which can turn local ecological or economic issues into global ones, is accelerating.
One approach to solving these problems is the principle of sustainability, which can be understood as a form of ecological and economic action to ensure comparable or better living conditions for present and future generations.
At the center of sustainability are the environment, as well as economic and social aspects.
Through the realization of the project “Go green”, the schools, primary school Kazimierz Nowak in Dabrowka (Poland), the Agrupamento de Escolas de Álvaro Velho from Lavradio (Portugal) and the secondary school Ronzelenstraße from Bremen, want to create an awareness of the need for a sustainable way of life in the environment of all concerned and to clarify by concrete experiences in other countries that problems or challenges are not held up by borders, but can be found in other countries in equal or similar manner.

In addition to the global perspective on this topic, however, very concrete measures should be initiated at the respective schools. In particular, the creation of a school garden in the participating countries is the focus of this project, as well as the environmental education of its participants.

Through this project, the students are also individually supported and prepared for future challenges. Cooperation and teamwork, interdisciplinary thinking, a reflected use of digital media and last but not least the knowledge of foreign languages are key competences of the 21st century.

Through the “Go green” project, we want to help promote not just the European idea of tolerance and cultural diversity among all those directly and indirectly involved in the project, but also the aforementioned key competences.

About 50 students between the ages of 13 and 14 from Poland, Portugal and Germany will take part in this project.
Depending on the project phase, the project participants are divided into national or transnational teams, which, depending on the activity, can be supplemented by other members of the local working groups. These teams work together on theoretical and practical tasks and then present their results to everyone involved. Stimulating input from experts from academia or industry as well as excursions in the respective regions complete the project’s program.

Central activities include theoretical and practical work inside and outside the planned four short-term exchanges. The project participants will build and supervise an ecological school garden.
At the same time, they conduct research on the topics of “energy production” and “alternative forms of energy”. Other activities that complete the project include field trips to the regions to illustrate existing everyday examples in the field of sustainable action and expert lectures.
We expect that the project “Go green” will increase the quality of learning and teaching at the respective schools. We believe that transnational cooperation will provide important impulses for the development of a culture of cooperation in schools, while at the same time strengthening the individual competencies of participating students and teachers in the field of project implementation and organization.
The project will contribute to a greater intercultural awareness and thus allow cultural diversity in Europe to be understood as an opportunity for one’s own development.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 65008 Eur

Project Coordinator

Oberschule an der Ronzelenstraße & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Agrupamento de Escolas de Álvaro Velho
• Primary School Kazimierz Nowak in Dabrowka