Nature In Cooperative Education Erasmus Project

Project Title

Nature In Cooperative Education

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 addressing more than one field

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Health and wellbeing; Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development); New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

Project NICE (NATURE IN COOPERATIVE EDUCATION) wants to link the central idea of the relationship between man and nature and the ability of teachers to transfer their pupils these values by a new training methodology which has developed a “training path” among this central idea and a stronger awareness among young generations.
To do this, project developed actions and activities involving teachers, as tools to transfer knowledge, to develop critical skills.
Involved teachers belong to primary schools of the four participating countries (Italy, Great Britain, Slovenia and Malta) and they have been pointed out in schools or they have chosen to participate. The subject they teach has not importance because a main feature of the project is its strong interdisciplinary.
Added value of NICE is given by the methodology of training – action which allows the acquisition of transversal and strategic skills, comparable and sharable in a European context, able to be replicate and disseminate by a constant peer to peer training.
Main objective of NICE is to promote among beneficiaries of first level (teachers) and second level (students) the knowledge and importance of agriculture by understanding the existing relationships among production, food consumption and sustainability of environment.
All project activities were focused on training moment using a training – action method . The following activities were implemented:
– (i)creation of a virtual platform realized by a web site 2.0, Bank of Experiences , that is the main tool for trainers, teachers and project users, giving tools and means to plan, realize and monitor training paths..
– (ii) Its realization has foreseen the research of more significant experiences.
-(iii) Together with the research there was the creation of the web site to foster and disseminate project values.
– (iv)Teachers who participated in training activities, at the end of the experience have been able to enrich the Bank of experiences. They were enrolled in the NICE BOOK and participated in project activities..

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 138160 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DEL PIEMONTE ORIENTALE AMEDEO AVOGADRO & Country: IT

Project Partners

• EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE COUNCIL
• PARAGON LIMITED
• Razvojna agencija Sotla
• Associazione Culturale Monferralto senza scopo di lucro