Mein ökologischer Fußabdruck für eine bessere Zukunft Erasmus Project

Project Title

Mein ökologischer Fußabdruck für eine bessere Zukunft

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

Project Summary

Heat waves, heavy rain and floods in summer or lack of snow in winter show clearly that global warming already has effects on mankind. Our children will perceive even more consequences of climate change in the future. That is why we planned this project “my ecological footprint for a better future” together with our partners from Spain, Italy and the Netherlands with the topics climate change and climate protection.
By taking part in this project the children will understand reasons for climate change and start becoming an active part in climate protection. The targets are to promote a basic understanding of climate, climate protection and climate change and to motivate actions. We want to inform the children in all countries, strengthen them and show possibilities to spring into action. By doing so we will educate our pupils to become competent Europeans who make decisions based on the knowledge about sustainability and environment protection.
The schools in Spain and the Netherlands already are our partners in the current project. We learned a lot, profited from each other and experienced synergy effects. The idea for another project is the result of our productive and enriching work. We share the thought that it is important for everyone to feel responsible for a climate-friendly future and we want to show the children possibilities to act in responsible ways and develop their own attitudes. On eTwinning we found our fourth partner in Italy who focuses on sustainability in their school development.
During the project we will focus on certain topics of climate change and climate protection in our work with the children. These will be the topics of our mobilities with children:
– scientific aspects of the ecological footprint
– agricultural aspects of the ecological footprint
– Reduce, Reuse, Recycle – waste prevention
– sustainable artwork and upcycling
During the six days of a mobility the children and adults will be trained in several workshop groups and work out new contents. The content-related project goals will be achieved by pre- and post-mobility tasks and by the planned Learning, Teaching and Training activities.
At the end of each mobility there will be a climate conference with all participants and the whole school who hosts the mobility. In this conference the children will agree upon certain targets which have to be realised in each school during the time between this mobility and the next. The climate conference’s decisions are to be implemented and established in each school. In order to achieve this and to promote sustainable thinking and living over the long term, the participants of the climate conference need to become climate-ambassadors in their schools and regions. On the next mobility there will then be a presentation and discussion if and how the decisions were implemented. An overall evaluation will take place during the final mobility with only adults.
At the beginning of this project each school will pack a Story Sack and bring it with them to the first mobility. This is a bag or rucksack which contains a children’s book from the home country, an English translation, a cuddly toy related to the story and an activity which can be performed with children. The Story Sacks will be passed round at each mobility so that in the end of the project each school had each Story Sack once. Back home each school will have to perform one of the activities that are already in the Story Sack and add a new (invented) activity to the Sack. At the last mobility with children each country gets their own Story Sack back. Each partner will have to prepare a presentation and a handout about their Story Sack and the added activities for the very last mobility with only adults.
The teachers benefit at each mobility from the exchange of good practice. They see how everyday life is organised in the different schools, widen their intercultural and communicative competencies and experience the school systems of the partner countries.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 129984 Eur

Project Coordinator

Hans Alfred Keller-Schule, Gemeinschaftsgrundschule Siegburg-Deichhaus & Country: DE

Project Partners

• ISTITUTO COMPRENSIVO ROSETO 2
• Christelijke Daltonschool Koningin Emma
• COLEGIO LA ASUNCIÓN