SmARTecology Erasmus Project

Project Title

SmARTecology

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: Environment and climate change; Creativity and culture; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

Smartecology was born in October 2019 during a meeting between representatives from different schools in five countries with very different profiles: Iceland, Spain, Croatia, Germany and France. Despite very contrasting geographical and climatic characteristics (from subarctic to tropical) with their own contexts, these five partners have decided to cooperate to build a two-year project aimed at deepening the role of education in the fight against global warming and environmental transition, one of the priority themes in the European context.

Beyond this major objective to improve the scientific knowledge of our students on the different themes of sustainable development, the project also relies on the creativity of the learners by using art as a way to express; theatre, fashion, cinema, drawings, literature are all media that will make it possible to give visibility and strengthen the impact of the various actions.
In addition, strengthening the feeling of European and international citizenship and the role of school authorities in decision-making is also the ambition of this project which plans to hear the opinions of students gathered in councils to make them actors of their production and their learning. The other ambition is to strengthen their language skills in English and the other languages of the partners, French, German and Spanish.

The project provides for the mobility of more than 80 pupils from 14 to 16 year old, as well as about 40 educational staff. Participants are selected based on their motivation and interest in the fight against global warming. The organisers are keen to allow students with less opportunity to participate in the project and are committed to ensuring as many as possible.

Five short-term mobility activities are planned, and online work throuhout the project, specially with the eTwinning platform and social media.
Starting in October 2020, a joint staff training event is planned to allow coordinators to benefit from the same level of information on digital tools and the preparation of student mobility. The synergy between new technologies and environmental protection and power generation is the main focus of this first activity.
Thereafter, the mobilities planned between March 2021 and May 2022 in Galicia, Reunion Island, North Rhine-Westphalia and Dalmatia are short-term student exchanges with different objectives related to sustainable development, ecotourism and the issue of waste treatment in the first place, the preservation of biodiversity with the participation of the National Park of Reunion Island afterwards, the reduction of food waste and finally the fight against global warming during the last mobility.
Our methodology is based on the use of art to communicate.

Through this project, we want to obtain quality artistic productions that will be shared to the greatest number thanks to digital tools. We will be able to assess the impact of our actions by conducting qualitative surveys at the beginning and end of the project with the participants and the educational community. It will also assess the improvement of our students’ performance in several disciplines, including science and modern languages.

In the long term, we want to sustain actions related to sustainable development based on experiences with our partners. It is also about continuing the exchanges between our schools by creating matches, which would allow our students to find places of training and create other European mobility projects.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 162012 Eur

Project Coordinator

Lycée Bellepierre & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Instituto de Educación Secundaria Espiñeira
• Srednja skola Metkovic
• Holabrekkuskoli
• Freiherr-vom-Stein-Schule Gymnasium Rösrath