Green Art – nATuRe Erasmus Project

Project Title

Green Art – nATuRe

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; Social/environmental responsibility of educational institutions; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

Four European schools, one in Germany, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Spain, which have already been cooperating in several projects successfully over more than eight years are convinced that it is vital to increase the environmental awareness of our students so that they become responsible European citizens taking actively part in the protection of our unique nature.

Young people are seldom aware of the complexity of the ongoing climate change, so this project aims to show young people the reasons and consequences of it in different European regions and how they can take an active part in the fight against the destruction of our nature. We want our students to understand that global problems can only be solved globally. Therefore it is important for them to learn that numerous contributions are necessary which differ a lot according to seasonal and regional conditions. All countries are suffering from the consequences of the climate change in different ways and all of them have to react to decrease, if possible to stop them. We share the opinion that if we accept creative problem-solving approaches, our students will be more active, feel more involved and hence learn more efficiently in the long run. That is why the project combines environmental protection and art.

Four 6-day-exchange visits, one in each country, are planned so that nine 14 to 16-year-old students of each participating school have the possibility to get to know all of our partner schools, their environmental commitment and their ideas about how to contribute to the preservation of our nature in our everyday school life. We hope to encourage our students to take an active and innovative part in meeting the present environmental challenges in seizing the opportunities this process might offer. Therefore, our main methodology will focus on training the students’ innovative skills in different workshops. They must learn how to solve authentic problems in cooperation with others. We want to make students realize that they make a difference and their voice can be heard as active European citizens As a long-term result, their environmental awareness will be heightened.

The project aims to meet the following objectives: We want
1. young people to understand that global environmental problems can only be solved together. Global problems need global solutions.
2. to bring young people of different European countries together so that they can learn about the exact environmental situation in every country and get to know different approaches to fight against the consequences of the climate change.
2. to encourage students to become active while participating in different activities related to environmental protection.
3. our students to apply creative approaches in the fight against climate change.
4. our students to understand that each and everyone must contribute to stop the climate change and that the smallest contribution is important because we have only a chance to decrease the consequences of the climate change if all of us start thinking and acting accordingly. Therefore
5. our students to get to know a lot of different methods to apply in this process.
6 to improve our students’ modern foreign language skills, primarily by using English as a working language and by introducing a “linguistic survival kit” containing useful phrases in our national languages.
7. to develop the students’ communicative, social and personal skills through interaction with other your Europeans. In this way , we hope to open the students’ minds to the diversity of cultures and languages and enable future mobility.

All exchange visits will consist of a number of social, cultural and educational activities. Learning and working together will present the most important part. Numerous workshops will be organized, all combining environmental commitment in a creative, artistic way.

As preparation for the exchanges the teachers and students will organize a program full of activities related to sustainability suggesting ways in which all of us can address the challenges and seize the opportunities of environmental protection. After each conference, the four partners will create both short-term and long-term tangible and intangible results to achieve the biggest possible impact to future projects such as leading students to
– overcame lack of social skills,
– setting up the project website in order to provide continuous access to the general information of the project activities, progress and results,
– writing newspaper reports
– creating on-site panels or leaflets to inform a non-specialist audience about the project background and the main results, communication and cognitive skills of students,
– cultivating effective partnerships between trainers, educators and community organizations so as to amplify our collective impact on the students.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 123568 Eur

Project Coordinator

Carl-Friedrich-von-Siemens-Gymnasium & Country: DE

Project Partners

• CS Vincent van Gogh
• Instituto de Educación Secundaria López Neyra
• Gimnazija Tolmin