Green school, better life Erasmus Project

Project Title

Green school, better life

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: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Social/environmental responsibility of educational institutions; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship

Project Summary

Our project consists in an exchange of good practices between several French and Spanish schools: two Catalan schools (Institut Carrasco i Formiguera and Institut Francisco de Goya, both in Barcelona) and two French schools located one in front of the other, in the city of Tournus (Collège En Bagatelle and Lycée Gabriel Voisin). It is an inter-degree and multidisciplinary exchange with the horizontal priority: “Environmental and climate goals”. It will also deal with two additional priorities: “Social and educational value of European cultural heritage” and “Promoting a comprehensive approach to language teaching and learning”. Three topics will be addressed by our project: ICT – new technologies – digital competences, Civil engagement / responsible citizenship, and Social/ environmental responsibility of educational institutions. The main objective of our project is the exchange of good practices regarding the well-being at school (high school and 6th form), and to get ideas by sharing experiences regarding the betterment of school climate. Actions that go in the direction of sustainable development taking into account the major climate challenges in a spirit of social cohesion will be implemented and / or developed. Well-being requires a greener school and a fairer and more empathetic school, a school in which everyone finds their place because they are one of the actors.
This school should also be connected, in all meaning of the word, with its local community, to build strong and sustainable bounds, but also with Europe, essential dimension for the fulfilment of its future citizens. By knowing better their own territory, by sharing it and by discovering how it can be fascinating for other people, our students will develop their appetite for knowledge, exchange, investigation and preservation of our planet.
Working together with young Catalans of the same age around the issue of the major climate challenges, to which they are already very sensitive, will enable them to realize that this concern for the environment is universal and that they are truly the actors of their future through simple everyday gestures and constant communication. Furthermore, the inter-degree, multidisciplinary and multilingual dimension of the project greatly contributes to giving meaning and consistency to the activities. It is not a project that begins in September and dies in June, but rather a lasting collaboration to achieve common goals in the long term.
The teams around this project in each of the four schools involved are multidisciplinary and include different staff from the educational community (teachers, school office, principals, canteen managers, students’ families, etc.). Moreover, this project involves local structures from Tournus and Burgundy, Barcelona and Catalonia, France and Spain, implicated in sustainable development.
The before, during and after activities planned in relation to the exchange project have in common to start with an inventory of practices (individual and collective) already implemented or in progress in the different cities and school implicated, and the remaining challenges in terms of environment and school climate. The first activities will therefore consist of carrying out surveys via eTwinning and sharing and commenting the results. Students on both sides of the border will also have to appropriate their territory in order to make it discover to their correspondents in a virtual way at first, and then with real visits. Finally, an important work of communication via the local press, local exhibitions, social networks and the eTwinning and Erasmus Platforms will provide the necessary impact to publicize the good practices selected.
The methodology will be based on:
-a- remote data exchange and observation;
-b- on-site data collection and analysis;
-c- joint proposals, creations, implementation and dissemination.
This ambitious project will enable our schools to create links that give sense and coherence to different disciplines within a project with different european languages, differents types of schools and different levels of students, and also different structures around us.
It will also be an opportunity to introduce Erasmus and its platforms and to establish effective monitoring of the indicators set up to measure the quality of the school climate and if necessary adjust them.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 1685 Eur

Project Coordinator

Collège En Bagatelle & Country: FR

Project Partners

• INSTITUT FRANCISCO DE GOYA
• INSTITUT MANUEL CARRASCO I FORMIGUERA
• Lycée Gabriel VOISIN