More future, less plastic: a service-learning approach for a sustainable Europe Erasmus Project

Project Title

More future, less plastic: a service-learning approach for a sustainable Europe

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

The project title `more future, less plastic` is not only a catchy title, it should also serve as a guiding principle for the project. It is the core aim of this adventure based on our deep conviction that the project`s activities will help students to reach out awareness about plastic pollution and developing activism to change something for their own future.
The method of project-based learning is the framework for the project in which students will work on the big topic of climate change and concentrate on plastic pollution. They will learn about the 3R`s, be active in workshops like recycling and cleaning actions and will inform themselves about biodiversity and water pollution. All these processes will be documented and saved in a project- kid. Therefore, the students will be able to experience new practices and to preserve them for fellow or future students. In doing so, the learners will be responsible for their own learning process and become independent and creative subjects.
The main core of the project is to integrate students from five schools as to work and produces proper outcomes of their work. Students are firstly invited to get to know each other better in search of their cultural and personal identity, and are then progressively guided to open themselves to the richness of diversity, looking into and through different cultures, and looking for building new, creative ways of communicating, sharing, learning and growing together. Five partner schools are participating in the project:
Germany, Poland, Spain, Cyprus and The Netherlands encourage the students to participate in several activities in many various ways and come together to exchange and share experiences and best practices in these two fields and find innovative ways to work with students as to gather their attention and curiosity. One of our aims is also developing awareness for the environment by offering interesting and innovative tasks.
While creating the project partner schools discussed and shared their experience in the
field of climate awareness, plastic avoiding and in the field of innovative methods and agreed on brainstorming the following topics and actions.
The Netherlands will deal with the topic of plastic pollution in water.
Poland will face on the topic of the 3R´s and giving things a second life.
Cyprus will deal with the topic of sustainable consumption and biodiversity.
Spain will search for answers to the question if plastic free is possible.
Germany will organize some actions to clean the environment and to follow the way of our trash.
We do not want to provide the students with solutions, but want them to develop their own solutions by making them aware of the pollution, which we want to disseminate at an European and International level by developing a project kid.
Most of the activities proposed will be maintained also after the end of the project. They can be successfully transferred to different actions and events at all of the partner schools and incorporated into schools curricula. Accordingly, we hope to anchor our approach in our school contexts most and foremost.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 135890 Eur

Project Coordinator

Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-Gesamtschule & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Szkola Podstawowa nr 10 im.Janusza Korczaka
• Gymnasium Aradippou
• Fons Vitae Lyceum
• Institut Manresa Sis