Sustainable diets Erasmus Project

Project Title

Sustainable diets

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: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

The project “Sustainable diets” has the acronym of SUSDI. Four secondary schools are involved in it: INS Sabadell (Spain, the coordinator institution), BG/BRG Biodekgasse Baden (Austria), Gymnazium Jana Chalupku (Slovakia) and Agrupamento de Escolas Trigal de Santa Maria (Portugal). The most relevant priorities that the project addresses are: “Promoting the acquisition of skills and competences” and (b)”Social and educational value of European cultural heritage
The objectives of the project are to:
1) Present the topic of healthy diet to secondary students in an innovative way using the methodology of IBSE (Inquiry Based Science Education), with an interdisciplinary STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) approach.
2) Make students aware of the global warming challenge, and that they can be part of the key to solve it.
3) Create sustainable diets collaboratively among partners from different countries.
4) Make students to implement the solutions created by them in the schools and local environment.
5) Share the results and outcomes of the project to other skateholders.

The number of participants of the project has been approximately 20,000 persons, including students and their families, teachers and teacher trainers and local producers. 84 students (21 of each country) have been granted to travel mobilities abroad in Tadim, Sabadell and Baden; 86 more students have been granted to participate in a virtual mobility to Slovakia. 36 grants have been for teachers to participate in staff training events. In all mobilities the number of local participants has been higher than the participants who travelled. The project had the prevision of four mobilities for students in Austria, Portugal, Spain and Slovakia). Due to the pandemic situation of COVID-19 and travel restrictions the project could implement physically three of them (in Austria, Portugal and Spain), and the mobility to Slovakia was changed into a virtual mobility. The experience of preparing and implementing a virtual mobility has been very challenging and productive at the same time. It is to note that a higher number of students has participated in the virtual mobility in comparison to the real mobility with foreign students.
The results of the project are:
A) Teaching sequences on nutrition and global warming,
B) Art productions made by students like videos or songs relating healthy nutrition and global warming
C) Students presentations on “What I eat and global warming” topics that will be presented by students at the short exchanges.
D) School garden to learn on diet and global warming. School garden will be organized during the project.
E) Contacting local producers and companies related to slow food.
F) Logo of the project.
G) A website of the project.
H) Exhibitions at schools.
I) SUSDI presented at media and webpages.
J) e-twinning projects among partners during and after the project.

The teacher-learning activities of the project are part of the participating schools.
The methodology used in the classroom is Inquiry guided Science Education (IBSE) strongly recommended by researchers in Science Education. E-twinning platform will be used during the project so that students work collaboratively in specific parts of the project.
Results of the project have been publicized in local media, as local newspapers, magazines of the schools, and school websites, and social networks as Facebook and twitter of the participating schools.
The number of visits to the website through external links of National and International websites and the number of teachers contacted will be the measures for the impact at National and International level.
To assess project objectives, indicators of the accomplishment of the objectives and results of the project on time are used. To assess the quality of the project, indicators of the degree of satisfaction of all stakeholders are measured using online questionnaires with a software as google forms or similar for all activities of the project. The results of the first indicators and questionnaires of the first activities performed during the project are used as formative assessment to change and to adequate if necessary the remaining activities.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 114299,1 Eur

Project Coordinator

INSTITUT SABADELL & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Agrupamento de Escolas Trigal de Santa Maria
• Gymnazium Jana Chalupku
• BG/BRG Biondekgasse Baden