“Leave Ecological Footprint. Commitment and Care of Our Planet. Recycle-Reuse-Reduce.” Erasmus Project

Project Title

“Leave Ecological Footprint. Commitment and Care of Our Planet. Recycle-Reuse-Reduce.”

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: Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; Gender equality / equal opportunities; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

Leaving an Ecological Footprint. Care and Commitment of Our Planet. Recycle-Reuse-Reduce
The project “Leaving an Ecological Footprint. Care and Commitment of Our Planet. Recycle-Reuse-Reduce” is an organized network of transnational cooperation focused on innovation, quality of educational practice and acquisition of skills and competences, whose main aim is to initiate students in the responsibility of sustainable care of the environment.

⇒ Priorities:
– To implement inclusion and equity in education in order to fight against disadvantages and social inequalities.
– To train in caring about the environment achieving physical, mental and social comfort and well-being. 
– Enhance the social  and educational value of cultural heritage in relation to ecological art/crafts.
– Guarantee gender equality and opportunities equality from the earliest ages.
– Promote innovative educational actions to prevent academic failure and early school leaving.
– Establishing responsible citizen participation in the educational context.

⇒ Objectives:
– To strengthen educational and cultural actions whilst promoting social and ecological changes from school.
– To empower students to feel the protagonists of the fight against climate change and environmental care, as an indispensable requirement to generate harmony in life (in the nature, social and cultural context).
– Create feasible solutions and proposals against the excessive use of plastic materials in daily life (e.g. food, toys, clothing, etc); greenhouse gases emissions (e.g. school transport); premade food (e.g. snacks); depletion of water resources (e.g reduce and save on daily water consumption); reduction and proper use of heating…
– To strengthen internationalization by initiating a joint action of reflection, research and entrepreneurship from the classroom.

⇒ Methodology and implementation:
– Work together in the development of Project Based Learning and Interactive Groups to achieve better results.
– Creation of a working network from different European areas that will foster a mutual enrichment, by creating an action exchange focused on environmental care.
– Generating transnational cooperation between organizations to help sharing objectives, ideas and methodologies.
– Training in social and civic habits related environmental care within the formal and transversal curriculum.
– Promoting a 21st century “European citizen consciousness” focused on the change of ecological life habits.
– Favouring the joint intervention of educational, environmental, health, cultural, construction, neighbourhood, social and legal services sectors.

⇒ Cooperation:
– Involvement of the Educational Communities (e.g: students, teachers, families, non-teaching staff…).
– Direct collaboration with health organizations and social, cultural and environmental services of this context.
– Institutions (e.g. educational, health, social, etc) will work together on aspects that will provide for social inclusion, equity and attention to diversity.
– Local corporations (e.g. town councils, sports, cultural and leisure activities, etc), NGOs (Red Cross, Amnesty International, Greenpeace…) and international companies (Leroy Merlin, Decathlon, Carrefour, Zara…).
– It will also involve architects, designers, construction and equipment to achieve energy savings and social comfort.

⇒ Credible results:
– We expect a strong social impact, as we provide a new approach to educational practice towards environmental education having also the benefit of internationalization for transnational cooperation.
– Bring up improved health and welfare proposals with an ecological perspective that guarantees the unification of educational and social policies, and prevents against the risk of social exclusion and poverty suffered by some of our students (gypsies and immigrants).
– Become an “example” to promote changes in educational and social policies focused on the acquisition of skills and competences that imply physical, mental and social comfort.
– We will seek the commitment of companies and NGOs to establish environmental care habits, reforestation and recycling, reducing and reusing.

⇒ Dissemination:
– The involvement of all sectors guarantees the success of the project and its dissemination in different localities and national and European areas.
– Disseminating in media and social networks will guarantee the transparency of our joint actions.
– Leading campaigns from educational centres will encourage promoting the three RRRs.

⇒ Sustainability:
– Based on UNESCO’s strategy “To contribute effectively to improving the environment, educational action must be linked to the legislation, policies, control measures and decisions taken by governments in relation to the human environment”.
– It provides solutions for concrete actions that establish environmentalism as a social and cultural right.
– It proposes a concept of ecological health, balance of life habits and protection of the environment.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 108850 Eur

Project Coordinator

CEIP Manuel Pacheco & Country: ES

Project Partners

• CEIP Valverde
• CEIP Camino Erillas
• Agrupamento de Escolas do Cerco
• Istituto comprensivo “Zannotti-Fraccacreta”
• Ecole primaire publique Aice Errota