On the ARK at 5 minutes to 12 – Facing environmental challenges – heading for a sustainable future Erasmus Project

Project Title

On the ARK at 5 minutes to 12 – Facing environmental challenges – heading for a sustainable 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: Social/environmental responsibility of educational institutions; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship

Project Summary

The biblical narrative “Noah’s Ark” is a rescue operation in which Noah, his family and the land animals flee from the Flood with the self-built Ark, because people had spread all over the world and did not care about the good. God therefore wanted a new beginning.

This story serves as a basis and metaphor for our planned project. In many areas our students have realized that they or the generations before them no longer deal well with our earth and environment, which in various ways now affects our students’ everyday life. They have realized that these environmental problems know no borders and that they have to collaborate with other students from different countries, exchange in a common language (English) about environmental problems and their solutions in order to avert the threatening danger of Nemesis towards a more environmentally friendly way of life. Therefore, various countries of the European Union and its partner countries (in our case Italy, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Germany and Norway) meet on the Ark at five minutes to twelve, just before it is too late to save the earth. As they head towards a new beginning in a more environmentally friendly world, they will encounter various environmental problems on their journey on the Ark that they will tackle with sustainable solutions. They take these sustainable solution products with them on their Ark and distribute them to their school communities to ensure that the world they are heading for is a more environmentally friendly one. Thus, symbolically, after each visit to a “port” of the partner country, an object is placed on the Ark. The last port will be the joint implementation of a sustainability week involving the whole school community, other surrounding school communities and various local institutions. Our vision is that a sustainability week will in the future draw circles and be carried out in various school communities and cities of the EU.

Project Website

http://www.ark5to12.eu

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 184183 Eur

Project Coordinator

Norbert-Gymnasium Knechtsteden & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Szkola Podstawowa im. sw. Jadwigi Krolowej w Stubnie
• Ingieråsen skole
• LICEUL BORSA
• 2IIS A-Ruiz
• Rigas 64. vidusskola