New behaviours for a greener and a cleaner future Erasmus Project

Project Title

New behaviours for a greener and a cleaner future

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Transport and mobility; Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

1800 students attend Jules Fil High School in Carcassonne where they pursue general academic and vocational curriculae from Year 11 to post-baccalaureate. It’s located in one of the town’s neighbourhoods, managed by the local authority. The school’s catchment is largely composed of a mixed middle-earner and underprivileged demographic: 34% of pre-baccalaureate and 61% of post-baccalaureate students receive financial assistance.
Students seldom travel with their families and cultural trips are rare since the 2 regional urban centres, Toulouse and Montpellier, are distant and field trips are underfunded.
We have observed that students lack initiative and implication: they are largely absent from high school associations and events and have low ambition and few post-baccalaureate goals. Many won’t leave their region or even their département.
The international aspect of the school educational policy was for many years confined to field trips to Spain or England organized by language teachers. These trips were expensive and involved small numbers of students.
Since 2017, the school has pursued the objective of widening its international horizons with the goal of fostering greater ambition amongst its students: this project has priority status in our school’s educational policy.
Thanks to e-Twinning, teachers in the Section Européenne started a collaborative project, followed by a school exchange in 2018, firstly with a Dutch partner school, Bataafs Lyceum in Henglo.
After 2 years working on the topic of education in Europe, both schools committed to a new theme, more centred on today’s environmental concerns, inclusive to participants with diverse profiles and seeking to develop students’ independence and initiative.
The action of young Swedish Greta Thunberg has turned the choice towards the problem of global warming.
The Caradelli Institute in Italy, contacted via e-Twinning, also volunteered to join the project.
This school shares a similar profile with Lycée Jules Fil and has already participated in two Erasmus KA2 projects, both as partner and coordinating school. Not only does this school benefit from a rich experience of this type of project but also expresses a real interest in the chosen theme, in accordance with its environmental policy.
All three schools have decided to recruit 90 Year 12 students (15-16 year-olds) for each year of the project.
20 students from each school will participate in yearly trips.
Each partner school will form a team of teachers representing different school subjects to work on the project.
Bataafs Lyceum and the Caradelli Institute will work with groups featuring French language learners in order to boost these classes.
The theme of the project, for its 2-year period, will focus on acquiring new behaviour patterns in the areas of transport and waste management.
The differences between our countries, although all European, are numerous. The three partners will study the way these environmental issues are being treated in their own country in order to compare their findings and to reflect together on a more sensible behavior.
The project aims to sensitize youth on their behavior in every day life and to encourage them to consider alternative solutions, that are less harmful to nature. It also encourages an active participation in civic and social life through the realization, in the schools as well as in the community, of devices and actions in favor of carpooling and reduction of waste material.
The project stimulates interdisciplinary cooperation in science, maths, geography, technology and art. While treating global information, digital utensils will be used in order to stimulate the use of all available means for a better comprehension of the environmental issues in society.
Sharing the results of the studies performed in the three different countries (in French and in English) enables the students to gain awareness of the diversities in practices and solutions in European countries. These results are often region specific and depend on the various political orientations in each country.
The project responds to the objectives set, while:
• it addresses a major environmental problem in a local setting where action can be undertaken.
• it aims to develop autonomy and the active participation in society by the adolescents.
• it offers tools for a better understanding and interpretation of information, which enables the students to develop an objective point of view on the matter.
• it encourages understanding in Europe of the differences within, insisting on common values.
• the approach is innovative, global, motivates the students and encourages participation in society.
• it integrates a foreign language as means of communication.
• it offers the possibility of travelling to students coming from families with limited resources.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 98844 Eur

Project Coordinator

LYCEE POLYVALENT JULES FIL & Country: FR

Project Partners

• OSG Hengelo
• IIS” Vincenzo Cardarelli” Tarquinia