Startupping 4 Green Deal Erasmus Project

Project Title

Startupping 4 Green Deal

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: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

The two upper secondary schools Teknikum in Sweden and Instituto Galileo Galilei in Italy have long experience in IT-education on many levels, from beginners to advanced courses. During the years, we have identified some common problematic areas for the teaching and the students: They lack competence in working in larger projects, and they don’t have sufficient knowledge or competence to work in project groups. They have, in general, a surprisingly low awareness on environmental issues and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG:s). They lack entrepreneurship skills and the ability to start a business, and they lack of competence in communication using English as language for working in transnational teams.
These problems, or developing areas, risk to become large problems for the students when they are going to work in the IT businesses, since the majority of the students will work in with development in long term projects with participants in different countries.
With our project, we will train the students in working in a realistic bilateral ICT-developing project, hence training their abilities to
communicate and work well structured according to a project methodology (SCRUM). Since the outcome of the project will be a digital application (a web page, an app for a telephone or something the like) will be centred round environmental issues and the SDG:s, the project will also enhance the participants’ awareness on environmental issues.
Another essential part of the project is to develop the students’ entrepreneurship skills and teach them about creating start-up companies. This is important for the students, since it many of the ICT students at both schools most probably will work as free-lance or entrepreneur in small innovative companies in the future.
The digital application that is being developed by the students will be made public on the project’s and the schools’ homepages, as well as the Erasmus+ Project Results Platform and the eTwinning workspace.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 2589 Eur

Project Coordinator

Teknikum & Country: SE

Project Partners

• Istituto di Istruzione Superiore “G.Galilei”