SUSTAIN European Culture and Environment in an App Erasmus Project

Project Title

SUSTAIN European Culture and Environment in an App

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage

Project Summary

The Erasmus+ KA229 project “Sustain Environment and Culture in an App” connected five European Institutions,Italy, the coordinator,Malta, Romania, Spain and The Netherlands, with the main purpose to provide students with hands-on learning opportunities to develop the eight key competences in the European Framework that must be mastered to collaborate effectively and problem solve in a global Green Economy . We also addressed the need to have an international perspective of Sustainable Development Education which could include academic, social, cultural elements by creating the SUSTAIN e.learning platform with lesson plans, methodologies and useful material for Sustainable Development and Cultural Heritage.
In the educational process activated in the LTTAs and the eTwinning project, our inquiry-based models of learning and inclusive methodologies allowed students to naturally incorporate skills and competences, such as Creativity, Critical Thinking, Collaboration, Entrepreneurship, Active Citizenship, European identity and Cultural Heritage We provided them with the technology and experiential learning opportunities that they need to master these skills fully by establishing partnerships with local stakeholders integrating more ICT activities and innovative digital tools such as APPS. Students have been introduced to most available new trends in technology, engineering and science in their region by visiting clean technology industries, strengthening links with them and developing a clean energy business plan. The activities focused mainly on the Goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Cultural Heritage. We discovered the traditions, culture, and environmental landscapes of our Countries with the constant investigation of environmental issues including Climate Change with active actions of sustainable tourism and economy,. The activities also contributed to developing communication skills, problem-solving abilities, decision making, teamwork skills, giving presentations and IT skills. Cross-cultural and cross-curricular learning was supported through all project activities. English Language learning has been constantly improved in dedicated activities that also promoted the use of digital tools in language learning.On each meeting, an IT workshop in a different field was held in order to improve the IT competences of all participants.
The project started with the Staff Training in Malta about Sustainable Tourism to explore different methods to teach cultural heritage Lessons to be delivered to students were prepared and disseminated in schools.In Italy, the main objective was the Cultural and Environmental Heritage, the target was the students, the focus was on sustainable development of cultural and natural landscapes and actions of Citizen Science with study visits to the most important natural and cultural Unesco sites of the area, boat trip with a science lab. In the collaborative workshops, students drew eco-tourist Itineraries, the Campaign for Eco-friendly Behaviour, the Dictionary of Cultural and Environmental Heritage in all partner languages and learnt how to make an APP. The learning experience continued in Romania, where the students were involved in different environmental activities on the Mountain of Slanic Moldova and designed the ebook “ Back to Mother nature”. The second year of the project started with the meeting in The Netherlands whose main objective was to explore the application of new technology for the environment. by means of direct observation during the field trips with the outdoor learning methodology and the debate. The products were eco posters, ppts about Clean energies collected in the Mozilla Hub virtual tour. The intercultural knowledge was enriched during the international meetings with cultural trips and inclusive activities.
The last two LTTA were organized online owing to the Covid emergency yet without changing the objectives and focus of activities.In the Spanish meeting, the Popular culture was deepened with presentations, videos, eTwinning activities, creative workshops and digital games. The products were The Youth for Sustainability Magazine and the ebook Poetry in Nature. In The final meeting, organized by Italy, important project-related presentations and evaluations were made. The APP with all products and the SUSTAIN E-learning platform are available on the project website www.erasmuspluska229secea.com
Two other staff training were organized by Spain and Italy with the objective to establish a permanent collaboration among our schools, to further disseminate the project’s results and ensure the prosecution of the project after its end. All partners will continue to share resources and teaching materials and disseminate them with their colleagues, with the purpose of introducing these new teaching methods into everyday practice ensuring thus the sustainability of the project.

Project Website

https://www.erasmuspluska229secea.com/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 136478,8 Eur

Project Coordinator

Istituto d’Istruzione Secondaria Superiore “Augusto Righi” & Country: IT

Project Partners

• SCOALA GIMNAZIALA “MIRON COSTIN”
• Fortes Lyceum
• Institut Andreu Nin
• Newark School