Schools for a green future – How can we protect the environment and save resources in our daily life? Erasmus Project

Project Title

Schools for a green future – How can we protect the environment and save resources in our daily life?

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: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Environment and climate change; Social/environmental responsibility of educational institutions

Project Summary

Schools for a green future – How can we protect the environment and save resources in our daily life?

Together with our project partners we are aware of the fact that our environment is changing dramatically because of pollution and climate change. There might be specific impacts in each country and region but the causes are very similar. In recent times, especially young people have become more and more aware of the problem and the massive threat to their future. As educational institutions, we want to raise awareness for this major challenge of our times. On the other hand, we want to show that we all can contribute and work together on possible practical changes in our daily life and develop our schools so that they might become “greener” and a place where you can see that everybody can contribute to a “green” future.
As the protection of the environment is only to be tackled when we all work together and know about the situation across the borders, an international project is the ideal approach to create awareness for this major challenge which everyone is affected by. We are convinced that the topic of our project is therefore most suitable in order to emphasise the importance of solidarity and cooperation in Europe.

Our project wants to explore the possibilities to use environment-friendly facilities in our schools and our daily life. We also want to promote the awareness for our environment and encourage “green” behaviour. Therefore we are going to create learning situations by using modern digital media which will enhance the process of digitalisation in education and boost the students’ 21st Century Skills.
By focussing on concrete topics being relevant to all partners, we want to create teams and projects to work on practical solutions for environmental issues in our daily life – at school and at home.
A further aim is the inclusion of socially deprived students, students with learning difficulties and refugees via project based learning and teaching which allows the participation and contribution irrespective of social background, learning abilities and language skills.
We also want to promote the European idea by making clear that we can only master the big challenges of our time, e.g. the protection of the environment and climate change, when we all work together on a European level.

Six schools from different countries – all of them facing similar challenges and highly motivated to work with a project based approach in their learning and teaching – will participate in this project. Students and teachers involved in the project will reflect the diversity of our schools. We want to involve students of different age groups and aptitude as well as teachers of different fields of study as we aim to reach all members of our institutions and make them benefit from the possibilities offered by an international project.

During the project there will be one transnational meeting with teachers and students at each of the participating schools where we will work on the different tasks of the project, e.g. students will explore the environmental situation in our schools/regions/countries. We will have international workshops and projects about particular topics like “green energy”, “waste”, “resources” etc. using multimedia tools for gathering information, documentation and presentation. Students will develop ideas for practical projects which can be implemented in their respective schools. Teachers will work together on the creation of competence focussed interdisciplinary learning situations related to environmental issues and evaluate their practical use. Students and teachers will visit relevant sites and facilities, e.g. renewable energy plants, recycling facilities etc. Furthermore, there will be a training activity for teachers at the beginning of the project in order to make them familiar with the modern digital tools we are going to use in our work on the project, e.g. learning management systems, eTwinning, web based teaching and learning tools.

The project will lead to more awareness and consideration for the environment and emphasise the importance of solidarity and cooperation in Europe among students and teachers. The involved schools will benefit from this project by the implementation of practical projects which will be a step towards a “green” school. These practical projects together with work groups started during the project will be developed and expanded so that further generations of students will continue working on an environmental-friendly school and lifestyle.The guideline and the sample learning situations will be long-term and valuable resources as they can always be adapted, enhanced and expanded. The experience with inclusive project based learning supported by modern digital media will benefit students and teachers in the long-term as the skills and knowledge will be shared with other colleagues to make our teaching meet our students’ needs and expectations..

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 171434 Eur

Project Coordinator

Techn.-gewerbl. Berufsbildungszentrum I Saarbrücken & Country: DE

Project Partners

• C’ TECHNICAL SCHOOL OF LEMESOS
• 5o Geniko Lykeio Petroupolis
• INSTITUTO DE EDUCACION SECUNDARIA Jacarandá
• Fjölbrautaskóli Vesturlands
• ITI “AUGUSTO RIGHI”