Keep cool – stay warm. We are building for the future Erasmus Project

Project Title

Keep cool – stay warm. We are building for the future

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: Energy and resources

Project Summary

Keep cool – stay warm,
We are building for the future,
is the title of a strategic partnership between Re upper secondary school, Vestfold (Coordinator / Applicant) and Theodor-Frey Schule, (upper secondary school) Eberbach, Germany (partner).
Participants:
The two schools are of the same size, with about 700 students, offering both vocational and general studies. In addition, Theodor-Frey Schule has a Programme for Trade and Economic Subjects. .
Background: Both Schools wanted to become more attractive for future students both in general studies and building Construction. During 2013 and 2014 we visited eachother several times, and decided that sustainable development, climate change and different ways of constructing wooden houses shold be our theme.
Objectives:
* To obtain a better teaching/learning in the fields of insulation of houses and the use of energy in private housing (Quality).
* To strengthen the reputaiton of the Schools, and in that way increase the number of students.
* To make the education more exciting in this important theme (relevance)
* To make the learning more practical.
* To strengthen the use of English as a lingua franca.
* To make the students more prepared and motivated for studies and work in another country.
* To make the students more acquainted to culture, School and living in another European country.
* To influence the students`attitude to practical measures in order to reduce the world`s climate Challenges.
* To make the students more independant to manage the practical things living in another country.
Vi har arrangert fire short-term Learning activities:
Re videregående skole has visited Eberbach twice, October 2015 and October 2016, With 11 students, and 3 following persons (2 in 2016), five working days each time. We have been received like honourd guests, and have also met the town Mayor each time. We have had a very good and varied programme each time. There was a good mix of theory and practical teaching in the workshops in School, Group work, inquieries, work on lists of words and expressions, and oral/written presentations. We also had excursions to firms, like BASF, an architect firm and Technoseum. Social activities were arranged in the School, in Eberbach and in and arround Heidelberg.
Theodor-Frey-Schule has visited Norway twich, in April 2016 with 11 students and 3 following persons, and in May 2017 With
The programme has each time consisted of practical and theoretical work and social and professional excursions. The students of the Construction classes have been making massive wooden walls insulated with wooden fibres for a passive house, and been in construction firms in Vestfold. The students of the theoretical classes have made surveys, presentations, interviews and lists of professional expressions. All the students have been on excursions, for example the Viking Centre of Borre. They have also had oral and written presentations and evaluations.
Results:
* The students of both Schools gave mainly positive evaluations, they found the programmes very good, and said they had learned more this way, than with traditional teaching in each school. They all enjoyed being together, students from the Construction classes with the students of the theoretical classes in this project. They reported that this was unusual i both schools.
* It`s difficult to find out if the partnership leads to a greater number of students. We found out that the participating students would to a greater extent speak positively of their school. We saw this at a seminar in Vestfold Fylkeskommune, where students from different Schools presented their different Projects under the Erasmus+ programmes.
* The students generally found it more interesting learning about these themes visiting each other. You can then see how they do things in other countries. But you also become more aware how we do things. “By visiting others you learn a lot about yourself.”
* The teaching profited by the fact that the students made Things practically. The Norwegian students got a better teaching using hand Tools in Eberbach, and they saw handicraft of very high quality. The German studnts experienced that they were allowed to try different things in the Norwegian firms. The students from the theoretical classes from both schools found it interesting calculating the insulation of walls and investigating attitudes in both countries regarding house building and climate.
* Using English as a Lingua Franca was a success, both in oral communication and when they presented results to each other. All the students reported that they learned a lot of tecnical English.
* The students from both countries said that they had become more motivated for seeking work and studies in an other country They enjoyed the exitement and mastering both in education, work, Language and socially.
You may obtain gains by cooperating on Facebook and Skype, but the real thing, visiting another country, is unique.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 42805 Eur

Project Coordinator

Re videregående skole & Country: NO

Project Partners

• Theodor Frey Schule kaufmännische und gewerbliche Schule