LITTLE GREEN STEPS, BIG GLOBAL CHANGES Erasmus Project

Project Title

LITTLE GREEN STEPS, BIG GLOBAL CHANGES

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: Environment and climate change; Energy and resources; Social/environmental responsibility of educational institutions

Project Summary

In this turbulent moment in history, we should stand together in solidarity, as a global community, to help protect each other and take care of the planet, our home. Taking into account the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, we want to make a contribution and stimulate action to achieve some of the goals and targets included in this framework. Our main objective will be the protection of the planet through little but significant actions related to: sustainable consumption of energy, recycling, green transportation and water saving.
The coordinator school IES ANTONI LLIDO in Xàbia (SPAIN) and the partner school BRG/BORG LANDECK in Landeck (AUSTRIA) believe in this project’s success as both schools have an extensive experience with international exchanges and are deeply committed to take environmental actions. Through this partnership we will exchange good practices, implement transnational activities and foster international cooperation and European awareness. The most relevant horizontal priorities according to the objectives of the project are: Environmental and climate goals, Promoting a comprehensive approach to language teaching and learning and Reinforcing the development of key competences. The topics addressed by the project are: Environment and climate change, Social/environmental responsibility of educational institutions, Energy and resources. As education and cooperation are the key to a sustainable world, our schools are determined to find joint solutions to environmental issues. Cross-cutting objectives are: to foster social and environmental responsibility, to improve foreign languages competence, to reinforce the development of key competences and to implement active methodologies. Specific objectives are: to raise environmental awareness, to promote responsible energy, to encourage recycling, to reduce our ecological footprint, to raise water awareness, and to encourage the use of sustainable transportation. There will be 4 five-day short-term exchanges including 10 students (aged 15-16) from each school per mobility, that is, 40 students will benefit directly in this two-year project. There will be 3 coordinating teachers per school, and 2 different teachers in each transnational mobility, then 8 teachers will participate in the transnational activities. We will encourage participation of students with special needs and students from less advantaged socio-economic backgrounds (2 participants with these features will be selected)
This project focuses on 4 central axes, corresponding with the 4 mobilities:
1-THINK GREEN. SAVE ENERGY, SAVE THE PLANET (Spain) aims at energy-related actions: schools energy saving plans and using alternative energies.
2-PUT WASTE IN THE RIGHT PLACE (Austria) is dedicated to recycling. Austria is a pioneer country in recycling all types of waste. The Spanish partner believes this is an opportunity to learn from each other. Concrete results include: a plogging race, the reuse of plastic for artistic works and the book-crossing initiative.
3- GO GREEN, GO CYCLING (Austria) aims to promote environmentally friendly ways of travelling. We will use distance measurement tools and create school campaigns that promote car alternatives while encouraging healthy habits.
4-BE WATER WISE, MY FRIEND (Spain) will focus on water saving strategies and responsible water use. We will collaborate with AMJASA, a local water management company with a desalination plant, highlighting the importance of the sea as a landscape element and as an economic engine of the region.
These 4 activities are interrelated and their results will contribute to design the ecological footprint app, our project final product. Moreover, project results include a video report on each mobility with interviews where participants express their opinions and impressions.
Methodology will be aimed at developing critical and creative thinking, facilitating learning from the acquired experience, and enhancing problem-solving skills and lifelong learning. The methods we want to use are teamwork (heterogeneous groups integrated by host and exchange students), communicative and cooperative activities, and practical topic-based learning, being gamification a very important part of our activities. ICT and digital skills will play an important role and will help disseminating and exploiting the results. We will be using collaborative platforms and tools, exploiting eTwinning resources and integrating project activities in our schools in this way involving more participants.
This project will have a great impact as our little green steps will lead to big global changes. During and after the project, we encourage participant schools, stakeholders and other schools to take environmental action so that our little green steps will become bigger after this two-year project. We believe that collaboration between schools and social agents can set a precedent for a sustainable future.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 47040 Eur

Project Coordinator

INSTITUT EDUCACIÓ SECUNDÀRIA ANTONI LLIDÓ & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Bundesrealgymnasium und Bundesoberstufenrealgymnasium Landeck