STRONGER TOGETHER Erasmus Project

Project Title

STRONGER TOGETHER

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 : Strategic Partnerships for school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Teaching and learning of foreign languages; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

The children of today are the decision makers of tomorrow. Europe was built a long time ago and was created to help us work together. It’s time now to think and act on the current climate problems which will impact their adult life in order to create a more sustainable, cohesive, inclusive and culturally integrated future within a united Europe. What could be more natural than studying water management, the future main worldwide stake.

This Stronger Together project is the continuation of the first project submitted in 2016, which establishes an Education Strategic Partnership and builds on Town Twinning initiatives, developing links made by citizens into educational opportunities that are used to raise awareness of sustainability issues. Today, it concerns the pupils aged from 8 to 11 to make them become Sustainability Ambassadors. The children themselves cascade their learning to their parents and to their local communities.
The project is led by Bressuire Tourism Office in the Deux Sevres region of Poitou-Charentes and it establishes a working group of three primary schools (France, Spain and Ireland).

Supported by the lead partner, the 3 schools’ children work together to exchange good practice and strengthen their European citizenship and climate changes awareness. They assess water management practices of each partnering country and gather the information in a mobile exhibition. They compile their considerations in a charter of best practice to adapt a moral and responsible behavior in and outside of school and to create a common European framework on ethical and responsible consumption. Those results are dissiminated thanks to events such as a main show at the end of the project and a documentary film.

There are class to class Skype sessions, working time in and out classroom and a planned schedule of transnational mobilities that make the children more open-minded, more motivated to learn foreign languages and more conscious of the environmental and wider issues that threaten Europe and the planet as a whole. The children from all three countries worked together in school and on firls trips integrating many subkects and pedagogical methods. They also improve their language and learn to communicate.
In parallel of all these actions, the programme of exchanges where teachers learn together about standard curriculum content in learning agenda for primary aged children goes on. There is a planned schedule of Skype meetings and transnational meetings that include support structures such as local authorities and leaders of tourism sector.

Exchanging good practice and developing innovation occur throughout the project which begins in September 2017 and lasts for 24 months. About 2000 persons from the school, the teaching team, politicians, twinning groupes and the wider community take part in this project in partner countries.

The aim is to make the children aware of the important environmental issues in society; to share our educational methods; to create a resource everyone can refer to. Children need to take onboard the important issues and reflect upon the actions they can take so that they become Sustainibility adviser. This will be their contribution to the world of tomorrow.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 80200 Eur

Project Coordinator

Office de tourisme du Bocage Bressuirais & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Bunscoil Na mBraithre, Inis, Co an Chlair
• ECOLE SAINT CYPRIEN
• C.E.I.P. María Quintana