Green Power against Noise Pollution Erasmus Project

Project Title

Green Power against Noise Pollution

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: Health and wellbeing; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

GREEN POWER
Nowadays noise pollution is one of the biggest problems that affects the health of Europeans citizens. According to the EEA (European Environment Agency) noise levels from road traffic that are greater than 55dB affect an estimated 125 million people. Noise pollution cause hypertension and cardiovascular disease leading to an estimated 10.000 premature deaths annually in Europe. These figures show us the magnitude of this problem.

Juan Ramón Jiménez school (Coordinator center.Spain) want to launch a European project based on this theme, noise pollution, but linking it with other concepts related to environmental care: fewer emissions, healthy living habits, renewable energies, clean transport, sports, sustainability, livable cities etc. We call this global concept GREEN POWER.

Looking for appropriate partners is a really important aspect in order to conduct a successful project. Our strategic partners come from Poland, Denmark, and Norway. This is due to the fact that we were interested in joining European partners from different cultural perspectives of the subject. Our partner from Oslo provides us the opportunity to introduce in the theme since Oslo is the European Green Capital 2019. This is one of the strongest points of our project. In the same way, our partner from Denmark offers the possibility to visit the European Environment Agency located in Copenhagen, which will give us the right perspective of the subject. Last but not least, our partner from Poland is a high exponent of eTwinning with two national prizes consequently it will give us the opportunity to enrich our eTwinning level.

Education is today more than ever, the powerful tool what we can use in our society. The way we face the education of our students will mark our future as European Citizens. Furthermore, in order to develop conscious and committed students to European values, we have to reinforce it.
Working together to solve the common problems that affect millions of people in Europe must be our priority. Internationalize our problem and encourage our students to develop the necessary skills to face the future with a guarantee, motivating them and giving the right tool to make little things that mean a big change in our European society.

The main goal of this project is to inform about the real situation of Noise Pollution, its effects on the health of European citizens and try to reduce it. Research about the different policies and how each country develops suitable tools to fight against this problem will be one of the strong points. The state with the participant cities shows about this topic, and how they deal with noise pollution in order to reduce it, will be fundamental in the project.
It aims to raise awareness society about noise pollution imply a chain reaction which means slow down emissions, use clean transport, renewables, or better wellness. To improve linguistic skills, motivate the use of ICTs and clean transport are also objectives.

The range of activities we have designed is completely adapted to the new methodology in education: active methodology, Flipped Classrooms (High Tech),
We will potentiate self-learning and suiting the collaborative work, encourage students to reach a good level of self-esteem, as well as keeps students involved through visual, auditory and kinesthetic techniques and finally encourage students to overcome barrier and limitations. Cooperative learning or Project-based learning will be used.

The results we hope to reach are basically to have less noisy cities and to draw attention to raise awareness of people in order to build eco-friendly cities. We plan to part from the educational environment to reach the rest of society. Our strategic partnership will mean a positive reinforcement of our educative system. We expect to prepare better-trained students and encourage them to solve their own problems in a democratic and respectful way. We hope to change in a way the participant’s cities in order to reduce road traffic (less noise) and encourage people to use clean transport, renewables or promote healthy living habits (sports)

In long-term thinking, we expect to use the result of this project to create common thinking from the educational environment to reach as many people as possible.
WE BUILD BETTER CITIES FROM SCHOOLS.

Concluding by dreaming.. we imagine better cities, cities with fewer emissions, integrated into nature and the environment. We imagine Europeans cities where the ecological footprint was zero per each habitant. We imagine cities with awareness students, more prepared to solve the problems that the future presents. We imagine houses in our cities where the power was green. We imagine cities with healthy living habits where people put into practice a life, respecting the environment and nature. We imagine that making this project we educate people for a sustainable future together. A Green Future a Green Europe.
GREEN POWER.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 98026 Eur

Project Coordinator

CENTRO EDUCATIVO CIEZANO JUAN RAMÓN JIMÉNEZ CIEZA SOCIEDAD COOPERATIVA & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Kongshavn Videregående skole
• Lykkesgårdskolen
• Szkola Podstawowa nr 11 im. Stefana Batorego