Open Paths Towards a Sustainable Future. Youth Awareness and Actions Through Agenda 2030. Erasmus Project

Project Title

Open Paths Towards a Sustainable Future. Youth Awareness and Actions Through Agenda 2030.

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: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Environment and climate change; Energy and resources

Project Summary

Open Paths towards a Sustainable Future is a solid project with a path behind and ahead, in which good practises and methods exchange will take place; PBL, Outdoors Learning, ITC tools, Learning Service, Gamming, methods in which one school is more expert than the other, so good practices exchange will be done. Develop and implementation of these practices is one objective and outcome expected.

Agenda 2030 issues are the main body of the project, issues of high interest to generate student’s awareness with their own future. This transversal topic is within all the main topics selected, such as responsible citizenship, democratic values, environment and resources. Cultural heritage and social inclusion are within the program as horizontal priorities. These are values in which we, all the partner schools, share and deeply believe in, and in which we feel very compromised to work with, and as public schools, happy to offer opportunities to disadvantaged students.
Cultural heritage exchange is one of the outcomes expected. As a matter of fact, the partners were carefully selected to suit this aim. All the partner schools are located in small villages, surrounded with rich nature environments, but at the same time geographically and culturally a big distance away one from each other. So we expect the participants to face many different situations in which to share resemblance and difference, that would lead to understanding and constructive attitudes.

Through the activities programed we expect to work on this objectives mentioned and reach the outcomes expected.
At IES Soller as coordinator school, we have been working for the past years into KA1 projects (2016-1-ES01-KA101-024366, 2017-1-ES01-KA101-037396) to get training into these topics and methods, and opening the school to internationalisation. The school has been involved into local programs and trainings on the topics and methods targed.

Every partner school has selected one or two topics inside the Agenda 2030 to develop activities around it.
– Peace and Justice and Global Cooperation, in Otalampi, Finland;
– Life on Land in Amarante, Portugal;
– Responsible Consumption and Production in Novy Jicin, Czech Republic;
– Affordable and Clean Energy in Hobro, Denmark;
– Sustainable cities and Communities in Sóller, Spain.

Students, teachers and parents will take part on the project.

There will be 5 Short Term Pupils Exchange activities related to the topics mentioned before:
– Democratic Education and Outdoor Learning as a Summing up
– Protecting wildlife and green spaces in Amarante
– Zero waste life style
– Affordable and Clean Energy
– Sustainable Soller Through a Learning Service Project

The students attending this activities will be 3rd and 4th grade (14 to 16 year old).
Each host school will be receiving 16 exchange students. Four students and two acompanying teachers from each guess partner school.
The same family that will hold a guest student, will send their son/daughter in exchange if possible.
The 16 students traveling will be grouped with all the local students participating in the program, 16 students also, 32 students in total, to work together during the length of the activity. They will develop a project during the week and will not follow school regular schedule, but they will mix with the rest of the students at some points of the project during the week, as all the 3rd and 4th grade students will follow the same project. The whole activity will last 6 days.

During this Short-Term Students Exchange, also training activities will be held to the teachers traveling:
– Staff training good practices and methods exchange
– Teaching through gaming
– Learning Service and Co Rubrics Assessment Training
– Student participation through democratic education and outdoor learning
– ITC tools
– PBL

Through out the whole project there will be a series of online collaborative activities attended by all ages students :
– Sustainable House Context
– Logo context and visual arts and drama productions
– Digital magazine and Erasmus corner
– Talks program on target topics
– Debate contest on target topics
– Zero waste lifestyle decalogue

All along the project digital platforms will be crucial to develop the project suscesfully, mainly eTwinning, but also Google Suite or social networks which the students are familiar with, such as Facebook, Instagram.
Dissemination and assessment will be done using same platforms. Also we will make our local communities be aware of our project by publishing it in the local media to enhance the impact of our project.
Final product will be a digital platform, where the work done, before, during and after the program will be showed and available as tools to be used in our schools development towards our priorities. It is our aim to keep this platform/network alive and running after the project is complete so that it becomes an international network lifelong project.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 153575 Eur

Project Coordinator

IES Guillem Colom Casasnoves & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Rosendalskolen
• Otalammen koulu
• Stredni skola technicka a zemedelska, Novy Jicin, prispevkova organizace
• Escola Secundária de Amarante