Less is More – the Smart City Erasmus Project

Project Title

Less is More – the Smart City

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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Environment and climate change; Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Energy and resources

Project Summary

The five schools have come together for all of the planned activities, both in terms of management and planning of the project and the implementation by the students. The overall topic of “less is More” was broken down each year into smaller sections – Environment and Mobility, Living and Economy, People and Government. In each of the three years, students from each of the five schools worked together in small workshop groups of between 5 and 10 students from all the schools examining a particular aspect of the yearly theme. Their findings and results were then documented in various ways – written articles, videos, displays, presentations and so on to the whole of that years’ cohort of students, staff and invited guests. These included civic dignitaries, staff from the schools, parents and friends. In this way an immediate dissemination occurred to several hundred people at each closing event. Each school then presented their findings back at their own school to other students in the schools, via newspaper articles and on their own websites. In addition, the ROTA website (rotaonline.org) and eTwinning contains details of each year’s activities.

Overall the students have though very carefully about the sort of world they would like to live in. This is evidenced through the questionnaires compiled by the students after each event. Their longer term thinking has been effected, especially towards the importance of international co-operation and friendship in the modern world, especially as Brexit, which has been a theme throughout the project, get ever nearer.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 146106 Eur

Project Coordinator

Lincoln Christ’s Hospital School & Country: UK

Project Partners

• I.E.S. PINTOR ANTONIO LÓPEZ
• Stichting Voortgezet Onderwijs Regio Schijndel
• Staedtisches Gymnasium Waldstraße Hattingen
• Sint-Lodewijkscollege