Green New School Erasmus Project

Project Title

Green New 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 : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Research and innovation; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

We are facing a new socio-economic crisis in which Climate Change will play a fundamental role, and the whole biodiversity of the planet depends on us to take urgent measures. We need to tirelessly engage our students in ecological activism and do it from a rigorous, scientific and gender-aware perspective. Moreover, there is no way to be efficient in this fight against ignorance and selfishness but we can establish active networks of solidarity. Our school and our partners’ are very concerned about the role young people have in environmental activism, especially girls. The three of us are interested in STEM methodologies, improving students’ oral competence and raising awareness on environmental issues. The three of us intend to reinforce our students European dimension and to enhance teachers´ motivation through international projects. Finally, the three of us belong to the so called PIGS European group, and we feel we must fight against prejudices: we want to work together to break this stereotype and thus contribute to the acquisition of a real European consciousness.

We have conceived a project whose main goals are:
FOR STUDENTS: awaken their critical consciousness; Improve their foreign language, digital, oral and key competences; Value the need to reduce acoustic pollution in our environment; Enhance their European sense of belonging, stretching ties with PIGS countries partners; Empower girls in leadership and STEM.

FOR TEACHERS, SCHOOLS and FAMILIES: Define and enrich the school digital PLE; Increase English and Digital competence in teachers, and thus their training and motivation; Contribute to a real equality of opportunities between girls and boys in society; Awaken consciousness in society about Climate Change, not from a social alarm point of view, but rather from collective building solutions.

FOR THE TEACHING-LEARNING PROCESS: Enrich the curricula of existing subjects or create new ones involving the topics: environment/STEM/girls/oral competence; Review and update the European Development Plan; Create a guide of STEM practices related to environment.

The methodology consists on developing research and designing campaigns on a STEM and oral-competence-enhancing basis, thus producing materials and events like:
1.- Three STEM eco-activist fairs altogether (one per school, this is, 3 exchanges, with 15 students and 2 teachers per school). In these meetings: videoconferences, presentations, experiments, etc. should be conducted. In all of them there will be a school open day, so as to involve families and local society in general. At the end of each exchange, assessment sessions should be held by involved students and teachers, and then a press conference.
2.- Campaign against noise pollution (one per school), producing reports and a STEM system to collect data and to prevent loud noise.
3.- Research on Climate Change in each country:
– Pollution: factors and consequences. Restorative and preventive practices. Designing scientific experiments to provide evidence
– Climate Change: socio-economical, historical, scientific, biodiverse and health focused points of view. Creating flipped classrooms, news, reports, presentations, etc. to disseminate the facts
4. – Ecofeminism: equality of opportunities in STEM studies. Promoting an international leadership group of girls who will be the students’ managers of the project.

Our final goal is to promote an international awareness campaign, so it will be fundamental for us to disseminate the project by all means from the very beginning: web sites, eTwinning, social networks and mass media.

The result of the project will not only be the research and campaigns displayed, but the basis of a long-term collaboration amongst the involved schools. The true end goal of the program would be to turn our students into committed and critical European citizens, capable of creating campaigns that convince and motivate society, so as to make them aware of their environment in order to curb the consequences of human nature’s rage and ignominy.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 18272 Eur

Project Coordinator

IES A Cachada & Country: ES

Project Partners

• 1o Geniko Lykeio Thessalonikis
• Istituto Comprensivo 3 Modena