Implementation and Acceptance of Environmental Protection Measures In the Czech Republic, Germany, Ireland and The United Kingdom Erasmus Project

Project Title

Implementation and Acceptance of Environmental Protection Measures In the Czech Republic, Germany, Ireland and The United Kingdom

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: Rural development and urbanisation; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

Project Summary
In the course of this project pupils from 4 European schools (Czech Republic, Germany, Ireland, United Kingdom) will research and present the development of environmental initiatives which have formed and shaped the area or regions where the schools are. This will also include a survey of reasons why some people or groups reject some initiatives. We want to raise environmental awareness among our pupils – who will carry out the work – and the impact the environmental problems have on the population, the society and the country. Describing and analysing these developments may help to see those problems in a larger horizon and thus enhance the pupils’ understanding of risks and opportunities of such processes. We intend to collect data, documents and other material relevant to the subject in order to enhance the students’ understanding of the institutions. Research teams will be composed by an equal number of pupils from each country so as to ensure cross-cultural learning, the use of the foreign languages and to enhance European contacts and thus transversal learning skills among the pupils and the staff. The project work will help to give new inspiration and motivation also to pupils who show signs of school fatigue and risk to leave school at too early a stage. This work will be pursued and documented both during the planned plenary meetings via personal contacts as well as in the intermediate periods via ICT, specifically via the use of eTwinning. This ensures that the material the pupils are working on is constantly accessible for all participants. By performing this work, the pupils will gain more self-confidence and independence in their learning as they experience their teachers rather as coordinators, as a living and competent helpdesk than as the “boss in the classroom”. They will take on responsibility in their teams and learn the efficiency of group work.

The following products are planned:
– developing a questionnaire with questions relevant to the topic to be then submitted both to individual citizens and institutions and then evaluated.The results will be presented and published.
– Putting together details about the present day energy mix of each country, researching the environmental impact and the associated perspectives.
– Inviting and interviewing Party politicians as to their party’s position in environmental questions: what has been promised, what has been achieved ?
These interviews will be published in the School magazines or on the School Websites.
– Visit to the MINT department at the University of Wuerzburg
– Development of a set of instruction notices of various sorts to be used in schools to promote environmental.
– Research into environmental Projects and ideas realised by pupils in the participating countries.
– Putting together a Young person’s /the schools Energy Diary and analyzing it. (competitive character, if possible).

In this project the following schools with groups of about 8-10 members each will take part:

– Glenstal Abbey School, a boys only boarding school. For this school, it is the third time that they are in touch with partners from different European countries and cooperate in an ERASMUS+project and thus the pupils and their school will experience the enlargement of horizons.

– Ampleforth College, one of the leading Benedictine boarding schools in Britain has been in the previous ERASMUS-project and would like to take a stand – despite BREXIT – to work towards a European cooperation in this project and hopefully beyond. Its situation in North Yorkshire allows to have a close look at the development of sustainable new transport facilities, the energy consumption of the big cities that are not too far, the measures taken in agricultural production to ensure a safe and healthy food production.

– Egbert-Gymnasium, a Benedictine School in Muensterschwarzach, is situated in the heart of Europe in a rural area. The monks have always used the forces of nature to provide for their energy needs and have continued to do so with the acclaimed energy project launched for the millennium which by now sees the abbey being powered by 100% renewable energy. The good
infrastructure of the Benedictine abbey (printing press) will be of use when it comes to producing the end results.

– Arcibiskupske Gymnazium Kromeriz will enrich the cooperation of the three Schools as both Glenstal and Ampleforth have not had up to now links to a School in Eastern Europe.

Collaborative work in the course of the whole project as well as during the pupils’ meetings will enable students to learn from each other and share their experiences of learning through different learning styles and approaches and enable creative and innovative approaches to be developed and shared. This will also support teachers in the delivery of project work that will lead to improved pedagogy and practice and and facilitate more creative approaches that will support learning for all students.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 130402 Eur

Project Coordinator

Egbert-Gymnasium Muensterschwarzach & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Glenstal Abbey School Ltd
• Arcibiskupske gymnazium v Kromerizi
• St Laurence Education Trust