SEEDS FOR TOMORROW Erasmus Project

Project Title

SEEDS FOR TOMORROW

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Energy and resources; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

Environmental and social issues are a priority for our society in transition. They are major challenges for the European Union, which implements policies to promote ecological practices at different scales. We named this project, Seeds for Tomorrow, because we believe that the seeds of this ecological ambition for tomorrow are in the hands of European youth.
Drawing on their experience of European projects, the teachers and staff of the Lycée Touchard, located in Le Mans, France, have gathered around them Portuguese, Finnish and Bulgarian partners with whom we are renewing a project, as well as newcomers. Among them, we welcome the teachers and staff of the Collège Cocteau de Coulaines, located in the agglomeration of the coordinating high school, to enable them to embark on these very stimulating experiences and to strengthen the regular and active collaboration between middle and high school students. The IES Las Salinas establishment located in Cadiz is also discovering this organization with a lot of motivation. The Seeds for Tomorrow project will spread from the banks of the Danube to the north of Europe, via the proximity of the Atlantic and the Mediterranean.
Seeds for Tomorrow meets cross-cutting objectives. First of all, awareness and skills acquisition on ecological transition will follow four axes: feeding, moving, producing, consuming. All the activities planned over the two years of the project will enable students, teachers and staff to work on these concepts. The linking of knowledge and know-how will allow students to exchange in English, based on argumentation skills and a specific vocabulary. In parallel to the development of language skills, the pupils of each school will express social skills thanks to the organisation of the host week and the sharing of a different culture from one partner country to another. Finally, Seeds for Tomorrow is based on the creation of High School Climate Citizen Conventions, which bring together students, teachers, staff and external speakers at the end of each mobility week to discuss proposals for improvements made by students. We hope that the Seeds for Tomorrow project will enable positive, ethical, scientific and civic changes in the way our schools operate. The practice of public speaking inscribes our project in the democratic tradition of our continent and will contribute to its positive evolution.
Groups of about 20 young people will carry out the project, over two years, in each institution. They will be chosen on the basis of their motivation to take part in the project over the long term. They will be ambassadors for Seeds for Tomorrow which will radiate far beyond this group. The activities have been designed during each mobility to include many members of our educational communities, schoolchildren, students, working people, parents to reach a large community of European citizens. We also want young people, who do not have the personal conditions to travel, to be able to take part in international mobilities. We defend the solidarity values of welcoming and sharing. The integration of secondary school students into the project reflects our desire to accompany young people towards the above-mentioned skills and to create a link between two ages of secondary education. On this subject, all the partners have thought about activities that can be carried out, at different skill levels, by students aged 13 to 18. The progression is intended to be growing between September 2020 and June 2022 with a specific identity to each stage such as the professional world, science or coastal preservation. The e-Twinning platform will allow an efficient follow-up of the productions in their diversity: articles, photographs, video capsules, audio recordings, artistic works…
The common experience shared between teachers and staff upstream of the project allows for a shared organisation of the project. Roles are defined within and between schools. The young people will be able to benefit from a framework that complies with well-understood rules and allows them to develop. Families will be able to join the project with confidence, aware that risk management is taken care of. At the end of the project, we are therefore looking forward to the following prospects: – Young people enlightened about the right ecological and social choices to make – Schools which will benefit from their reflections to improve their daily lives – Pupils and adults, better speakers in English, to continue this investment on a European scale in the near future.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 182717 Eur

Project Coordinator

LYCÉE POLYVALENT GABRIEL TOUCHARD-GEORGE WASHINGTON & Country: FR

Project Partners

• INSTITUTO DE ENSEÑANZA SECUNDARIA “LAS SALINAS”
• Agrupamento de Escolas D. Sancho I
• Etelä-Karjalan koulutuskuntayhtymä
• Angliiska Ezikova Gimnaziya Geo Milev
• Collège Jean COCTEAU de COULAINES