School webradios and sustainable development Erasmus Project

Project Title

School webradios and sustainable development

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: Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; Environment and climate change; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

Our societies face many global challenges such as climate change, environmental degradation, inequalities and tensions between populations. The answers to these challenges can only be found at the international level. This is why we wish to go beyond the national level with this project of school webradios around the topic of sustainable development objectives in order to broaden perspectives through exchanges and productions at the European level. The aim is to promote the values of the European Union in order to make pupils aware that they are committed European citizens united around common values in a social and united Europe.
Web radio is a motivating tool that allows students to express themselves and share their commitments and their vision of tomorrow’s world. The fact that students are creators of their media confronts them with the various problems of media and information education, a crucial issue for the training of future citizens.
The main objective is to develop a partnership between 4 schools to produce podcasts in different languages in line with the sustainable development objectives of the United Nations agenda 2030. For these 4 French, Basque, Belgian and German schools that already have or will set up a school web radio, the aim will be to compare views and ideas on the actions carried out in each of the regions, to meet local and international actors in order to have a concrete and global vision, to try to find common and sustainable solutions and to communicate these solutions on a European scale. The 12 teachers from each country teach very diverse subjects and perfectly illustrate the interdisciplinarity of such a project around a media. The 100 students, all of whom are volunteers and invested in webradios workshops in their schools, come from classes 6 to 3, 11 to 15 years old.
Students will develop their language skills in French, English, German and Spanish to reach a European audience. They will be required to prepare together and record reports and interviews related to global warming in different contexts, asynchronously or under live conditions, or even possibly in public. During their mobility, they will have the opportunity to participate in conferences, meet experts to be interviewed, visit radio studios, former industrial sites undergoing reconversion or companies involved in sustainable development and participate in international events such as the 2021 International Weather and Climate Forum. Each meeting will include a “Media and Information Education” component and a “Education for Sustainable Development” component.
To carry out this project, students will be regularly trained to produce in foreign languages by modern language teachers, will be prepared during web radio workshop sessions and will have the opportunity to participate in videoconferences before travel to exchange with partners in advance via the eTwinning platform through a Twinspace.
We will be able to measure the achievement of these objectives by validating students’ competencies in the 5 domains of the common knowledge, skills and culture framework. Students and teachers will also be able to validate skills from the digital skills reference framework and Europass will be delivered to the students and teachers of the project.
We will also list the number of podcasts produced in French and foreign languages, the variety of topics covered, the number of contacts made with external interviewees and the variety of channels through which these podcasts are distributed. In the long term, students, as responsible and committed citizens, will thus have acquired a wealth of experience that will be useful to them in their future studies and the world of work by developing their language skills, training in media and information education, developing their judgment and critical thinking, and intercultural knowledge, all based on values that will enable them to live in a society that is more tolerant and aware of global challenges.
This project will be promoted through multiple channels: the digital environments of each school, the eTwinning network through the awarding of possible quality labels, the local press, the CLEMI network (Center for teaching and education media) , UNRIC (United Nations Regional Information Centre), the DANE networks (academic delegation for digital practises in education), the Twitter network of schools but also the network of UNESCO Associated Schools at national and international level.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 111148 Eur

Project Coordinator

Collège Vincent VAN GOGH & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Collège Jean Pujo
• Athénée Royal Thuin
• Max-Windmueller-Gymnasium