LET’S USE ENERGY USEFULLY Erasmus Project

Project Title

LET’S USE ENERGY USEFULLY

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Social/environmental responsibility of educational institutions; Environment and climate change; Energy and resources

Project Summary

All the five partners have jointly implemented the project’s activities fulfilling its main aim about the protection of the environment and have emphasized the use of renewable energies through the production of further outcomes which actually can be considered as tangible outputs, thus overcoming the original plan. As a matter of fact, beside the foreseen outcomes, each partner during the extension time, forced by Covid’s advent, has succeeded in producing a further original final product which has been shared during the last virtual exchange, thus making Ecology topic a real interesting, attractive and practical theme among both students and teachers.
The project’s aims included and fulfilled the following aims:
-making students aware of the importance of using alternative sources of energy;
-encouraging students to improve their English and ITC skills;
-promoting an ecological life as a strategy for being ecological and healthy, thus leading a lifelong ecological lifestyle;
-imposing a long-term policy in partners’ schools and families in dealing with the problem of overusing electricity and neglecting environmental matters;
-supporting social inclusion and preventing discrimination;
-developing knowledge among students and teachers of the diversity of European cultures thus promoting respect and tolerance for other nations.
The advent of Covid was faced with a more responsible attitude, since the same students advocated the creation of a forum in etwinning where they shared their points of views about its consequences on the environment, thus enlarging the former aims.
Each exchange foresaw the participation of 5 students per country chosen according to transparent criteria which implied command of English, ICT skills, voluntary work, involvement in the school-based activities and motivation. Before each mobility, all topics have been previously dealt with in entire classes, giving priority to the inclusion of all the likely participants, thus comprising a greater number of effective participants. Even adults profited of the partnership because they themselves had the opportunity to deepen both their linguistic and technical skills and obviously they became more conscious about the environmental issues and developed new strategies on how to convey and deal this concern among the students in a more factive way.
During all the four meetings in presence external experts have illustrated technical aspects related to the subtopics involving students in relevant workshops. Moreover the host schools have organized visits at local renewable energy plants after which students have collected all their presentations in online magazines or e-books according to the specific meeting topics:
-C1 in Turkey: Requirements for a sustainable life
-C2 in Portugal: Different kinds of renewable energy
-C3 in Hungary: Advantages of Renewable Energies and the ways to apply them at home
-C4 in Bulgaria: How to cope with the most threating environmental issues.
-C6 virtually hosted by Italy since C5 had been canceled because of the pandemic. During this meeting participants have shared their productions on “How can we protect the environment- identifying factive measures” and “Eu regulations on environmental issues”
During the project’s lifetime, students have also built a brochure on the partnership, a thematic calendar for each year, a collection of essays on the future sustainable cities, a video-simulation of a future sustainable environment, an international sustainable menu and each country has effectively created specific further outcomes:
Turkey: a solar powerbank
Portugal: a solar oven
Hungary: a school solar panel
Bulgaria: a method to save energy while cooking
Italy: an authonomous smart irrigation system
All the products are available to larger audiences on the project website: https://ruigonca.wixsite.com/letsuseenergy, on the project’s twinspace: https://twinspace.etwinning.net/84147/home, on facebook group:https://www.facebook.com/groups/2671979326221663.
There has already been a positive, measurable impact at the level of participants shown by the increase in tolerance and respect for each other, improvement in ICT, in English, in organizational, teamwork and leadership skills. The results, measured through quantitative and qualitative indicators, through Europass certificates and final products, pointed out a general increasing in awareness of ecological problems among the target group members, the local schools and wider communities, at the level of the institutions involved at local, regional, national and international levels, which has been proven by the website views and during the Erasmus Days and we, as a partnership, really believe this project will also in future have positive implications through the adoption of a new energy sustainable attitude in all the involved contexts and the use of the resources for both curricular and extra-curricular activities, even for future projects.

Project Website

http://ruigonca.wixsite.com/letsuseenergy

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 155422,65 Eur

Project Coordinator

Istituto Tecnico Tecnologico G. Malafarina & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Nyíregyházi SZC Vásárhelyi Pál technikum
• Profesionalna gimnazia po targovia i restorantyorstvo
• Agrupamento de Escolas Abade de Baçal
• Carsamba Anadolu Kiz Imam Hatip Lisesi