Renewable Energy Sources: Comparing Useful Experiences Erasmus Project

Project Title

Renewable Energy Sources: Comparing Useful Experiences

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 for Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Energy and resources; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

Context and background of the project: It began to exchange good practices related to environmental problems and climate change. It is an issue that concerns all of us but which we face in different ways in each of the participating centers (Sweden, Italy and Spain). Previously we had done projects together Italy and Spain and Sweden and Spain, but we had never worked the three centers together.

Objectives: exchange of good practices, change the mentality of our students: make them aware of environmental problems and change habits of energy consumption.

Number and profile of the participants: 3 centers. Atheneskolan is a school of 300 students and 30 teachers, located on the island of Gotland in Sweden. Liceo Scientifico Statale Claudio Cavalleri is a secondary school of 1500 students and 115 teachers, located in Parabiago, Italy. IES Bendinat, secondary scool of 1050 students and 106 teachers, located in Mallorca.

Description of activities: Transnational meeting in Mallorca (October 2017), to present the project to the students, families and staff of the coordinating center and schedule meetings and activities. First meeting preparation with students: activities to be carried out: project logo design and video presentation of the current situation of each center regarding climate change, energy consumption and environmental problems

Short-term meeting in Mallorca (January 2018). Material presentation made by each school (presentations and videos), Contest logos. Visit Albufera Natural Park. Visit Sierra de Tramontana (declared World Heritage by UNESCO), Visit to TIRME (Environmental Technology Park) and IMEDEA (Mediterranean Institute of Advanced Studies) and conference and demonstrations by the Ministry of Environment, Consell Insular. Survey design for the next meeting and workshop on the ecological footprint.

Short-term meeting in Parabiago (April 2018). Activities dedicated to the analysis of renewable energy sources. Visit to the Biomass Plant of Tirano. Earth Day celebration with planting aromatic plants. Workshops on the environmental laws of each country, comparative. Visit Hydroelectric Power Station. Visit Thermal heating plant. Interview with the Director of Production of Renewable Energies of Italy. Conference of Mayor Tirano and Minister of the Environment. Visit the Bosco Verticale in Milan. Ecological theme photography contest

Transnational meeting in Stockholm organization and preparation of the second part of the project (August 2018)

Short-term meeting with students in Visby. Activities: 100 students from each center have answered a survey and presented the results, Projection of short films about the garbage produced in each center. Recycling workshops and ecofriendly on the lifestyle in Sweden, characterized by its respect for nature. (September / 2018)

Transnational meeting in Parabiago. Preparation and planning of the final meeting, dissemination, sustainability and activities to be presented (December / 2018). Conference and reflection on climate change. Analysis of the project website. ARPA Visit (Regional Environmental Protection Agency)

Final project meeting in Mallorca (May 2019). Presentation of the digital material created by the participating students, ECO-Packages (eco-sustainable itineraries). Public exhibition of posters produced throughout the project and presentation of the “eco-corner” of Bendinat. Plastic Museum Exhibition. Visit to Menorca, wind farm. Training and dissemination activities with press and TV assistance: Climate change conference by Mr Pablo de Jevenois (diplomat, writer and former head of the area on sustainable cities and climate change in the Mediterranean Union of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs) and THERE IS NO PLANET B round table with Pablo De Jevenois, Line Hadsbjerg (anthropologist and author of the film OUT OF PLASTIC), Salud Deudero (Spanish Institute of Oceanography and Professor Marine Ecology IB University and Aniol Esteban (director Marilles Foundation Marine Biologist and environmental economist ). Presentation of BOOK FOR GREEN, reservation portal associated with Booking created by 4 very active students participating in RESCUE that we presented to the international EDUCAIXA Challenge Emprende in March 2019 and was one of the awarded projects with a training trip to Silicon Valley.

Result: the results of all the activities and meetings have been shared both in social networks and in the websites of the centers, the website of the project itself and were exposed in the final meeting.

Impact: because of this project and for the increased concern about environmental issues many of the participants have changed some of their habits and ways and have become more ecological.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 66515 Eur

Project Coordinator

Instituto de Enseñanza Secundaria BENDINAT & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Atheneskolan
• LICEO SCIENTIFICO STATALE CLAUDIO CAVALLERI