SHE’S the change Erasmus Project

Project Title

SHE’S the change

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: Gender equality / equal opportunities; Health and wellbeing; Social/environmental responsibility of educational institutions

Project Summary

SHE’S the change is a strategic Association whose main aim is the exchange of good school practices and for the creation of a European Network of Sustainable Educational Centres. Understanding sustainability not only as the transformation of ecological or environmental aspects, but also related with the social well-being, including factors such as Solidarity, Healthy Eating Habits and Equality.
The initials of these words, and even with that of Sustainability, form the concept of “SHE’S”, which is, “she is”, and it even refers to the Mother Earth, the Nature, the Society, the Population, the Education, the Freedom, the girl who leads the fight against climate change (Greta Thunberg), the woman as the fundamental part of the process of transformation of society, the Hope,… To sum up, SHE’S is the Virtual Community of European Schools for the sustainable development that we want to develop.
The Objectives of the Association are:
– O1 To create a European Network of Sustainable Schools in which they will carry out environmental practices linked to social issues.
– O2 To develop a Virtual Community with the objective of sharing good practices about environmental aspects linked to social issues.
– O3 To make mobilities in order to meet, compare and learn how environmental and social aspects are managed in the different cultures involved in the association.
– O4 To teach students as the driving forces for the change through the dissemination of what they have learnt to the rest of the educative community.
– O5 To stimulate sustainable habits in everyday life making posters and dissemination campaigns in each of the institutions.
– O6 To encourage the learning of foreign languages as well as promoting the knowledge of the different cultures through the exchange of information.
– O7 To carry out sustainable audits before the mobility and at the end of the project to assess the starting point and the effectiveness of the measures proposed when the composition of the project.
In addition to the objectives described before, this project is intended to contribute to some of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Equality (5. Gender Equality); Sustainability (13. Climate Action); Solidarity (2. Zero Hunger) and Health (3. Good Health and Well-Being).
In order to achieve the aims we contemplate, it is proposed to create a strategic association consisting of 4 institutions (Spain, the coordinating high school, Italy, Greece and Portugal) and the design of activities distributed during the 24 months duration of the project, both with activities in each school and with activities in the mobilities.
These activities are structured around the 4 themes to work during the development of the project: Solidarity, Healthy Eating Habits, Equality and Sustainability. Each institution of the association will lead one of these cross curricular subjects, it means, they will be the responsible for proposing, evaluating and disseminating the activities carried out in the field that they lead.
This Association will be accompanied by a Twinspace project on the eTwinning platform which will be used to carry out the activities, as a means of collaboration between the partners, as a tool of communication, to organize the mobilities, and as well as a means of disseminating them. In this way, all participants will be able to exchange and enrich themselves of the products made by the rest of the members of the Association.
Taking into account the participants, there will be involved teachers, students and even their families and the local institutions, both social and educational. The students participating in the mobility activities, between 12 and 15 years old, will be chosen according to a selection criteria based on the principles of advertising, equity, transparency and equal opportunities.
In order to achieve a correct development of the project, it is proposed a continuous and regular evaluation of the project. It will allow to evidence the fulfilment of the objectives and thus to achieve the proper success. The project will be accompanied by a dissemination plan whose main objective will be to maximize the potential of the strategic partnership. This plan will be extended to different geographical levels, to different beneficiaries and to the maximum number of languages.
As a consequence of the mobilities, an impact will be promoted regarding the improvement of the living together and because of the shared experiences, the development of new skills, the linguistic competence, as well as the awakening of the interest in the principles of the EU, such as its social, cultural and historical heritage. The impact within the organizations and participants directly involved in the project, will be expected not only with the achievement of the proposed objectives, but, through the sensitization of the students. So, we have to ensure that students will able to develop these skills becoming the true engines of the change.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 90450 Eur

Project Coordinator

IES San Marcos & Country: ES

Project Partners

• 4th Gymnasium Volos
• Istituto Comprensivo “Luca Tozzi” Frignano
• Agrupamento de Escolas Cego do Maio