Stand up For Environment! Erasmus Project

Project Title

Stand up For Environment!

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: Energy and resources; Social/environmental responsibility of educational institutions; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship

Project Summary

While people want to rule nature and lead a comfortable life, they sometimes destroy it unintentionally. A large number of dystopic films produced in the past decade aim to give us a nightmare-like idea of what the future world might look like without being interested. We want our schools to turn into green schools where environmental policies are implemented and respected by all. Finally, we want to create a model for our societies and determine how other schools take action in the field of ecology.
To achieve these desires, we have established this European partnership, which includes 5 different European schools that will observe each other, learn together and learn from each other, analyze the differences between us in terms of environmental issues and draw conclusions. We will place students at the center of all activities, as we ask them to produce changes in them. As an active part of all project activities, we believe that students will become more responsible and active in environmental protection.

In this way, we will organize 5 exchanges:
C1 – Water is Life (interdisciplinary approach, water as a source of life, water shortage)
C2 – Keep our environment clean (recycling, waste management)
C3 – Breathe in, Breathe out (air pollution, air quality)
C4 – Global warming issues and renewable energy for sustainable development
C5 – Take action to build a clean future

The main objective of the project is to create a context for 5 European schools with very different backgrounds to share information and practices on environmental issues and methods of dealing with them. In this context, we aim to ensure that students appreciate their environment more, think about the future of our planet, and take action to produce visible and lasting changes in their local communities.

Our main goals are:
– Exchange ideas and practices with other European countries on the environment
– Introduce students to environmental issues and concepts such as sustainable development, renewable energy sources
– Gain self-learning and autonomy to students by conducting research, collecting and presenting data
– Develop students’ creativity, critical thinking and analytical thinking

C1 – Water is Life. Before C1, students conduct surveys about water consumption in their community.
C2 – Keep our environment clean – C2 students before creating and implementing waste management surveys in their schools and communities.
C3 – Breathe in, breathe out – before C3 students prepare presentations on air pollution and policies in their country.
C4 – Global warming issues and renewable energy – each team offers one type of renewable energy.
C5 – Take action to build a clean future – Before C5, NGOs are implementing local environmental campaigns with NGOs.

Pupils
The target student group consists of 1000 students aged 14-18. These are a mix of nationalities, social and economic backgrounds, religions, mixed talent students, students with both high and low achievement, rural and urban areas, VET or general education students.

Teachers
They will facilitate students’ access to meetings with the authorities, organize activities for the project, and promote the project in the community. 40 teachers will participate as companions. These are other teachers from the project team and from various areas of expertise such as English, Biology, Chemistry, Science, Geography.

The partners will allocate all necessary resources for a good project implementation and successful partnership. Every one of us will identify key people responsible for main project management aspects – monitoring, evaluation, dissemination, communication, finance.
We will identify risks so that we can think of common solutions and share them with our partners as soon as possible.
Exchange distribution and responsibilities
IT – C1organizes, evaluates C1 participants, an evaluation report is written
LT – C2 organizes, evaluates and writes C2 evaluation report
TR – C3organizes, evaluate and writes C3 evaluation report
RO – C4organizes, evaluates and writes C4 evaluation report
PT – C5organizes, evaluate and writes C5 report

We expect the project to lead to many positive changes at all partner schools levels. Firstly, the tie between teachers and students and the relationship between school and parents will also improve. Parents will be more aware of the key role played by the school in developing future citizens who will contribute to the development of society. Local governments will see the participating schools as a dialogue partner and support students in both the project and their future initiatives, because we expect students to develop new initiatives and become active in their community. NGOs will be our partners and we will develop future projects with them.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 164519 Eur

Project Coordinator

IPSSEOA COSTAGGINI RIETI & Country: IT

Project Partners

• BUCA ANADOLU LISESI
• Vilkaviskio r. Graziskiu gimnazija
• Agrupamento de Escolas de Rio Tinto
• Liceul Tehnologic “Constantin Brancusi”