Green My School Erasmus Project

Project Title

Green My School

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 Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Environment and climate change; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

The “Green My School” project sought to initiate a domino effect amongst schools and public institutions in Europe. Climate change is a reality whose devastating effects will be mostly suffered by the young generations and their descendants unless we reduce our carbon footprint. With this project we wanted to work towards lowering our impact on the environment in our daily lives. Reducing the carbon footprint and waste in our schools through the work of students and teachers will empower us to demand a similar responsible behaviour from others around us.
To work on this project, five schools in different parts of Europe with one situated outside our continent joined forces. All the schools involved are different in relation to religious denomination, language, culture, location and type of school building, however students and teachers in all of them feel the urgency to reduce their negative impact on Earth and want to start a new era of positive actions. Reproducing similar results in different parts of Europe and in schools with different backgrounds is an example of what we can do independently of our origins.
Our work has been student-based and cooperative. The students from the five schools shared ideas and actions that they developed with the help of their teachers and schools. Many of the students in the five schools were involved in the project one way or another, although a smaller team of roughly 150 students and teachers were directly involved. Of those, around 40 were more active in the communication process between the schools. All the participants measured the schools’ impact on the environment using different variables and established realistic goals to reduce it. They also sought the help of experts in the area and discussed through annual conferences the challenges they faced, their objective results and plans. They also documented their progress in an on-line platform making it available to anyone that wants to follow our schools’ steps. Through their work they also developed their science, maths, communication and English language skills.
We made our schools more sustainable. Working together with other schools made far more progress than working by ourselves. We hope to continue working on our goal even after the project ended. To become My Green World.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 60060 Eur

Project Coordinator

Colegio Aljarafe S.C.A & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Sint-Vincentiusinstituut Anzegem
• COLLEGE LYCEE MAITRISE DE MASSABIELLE
• Istituto di Istruzione Superiore “G. Caselli”
• Ahmet Kurttepeli A. Lisesi