Sustainable environment Erasmus Project

Project Title

Sustainable 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: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Environment and climate change; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

The coordinator establishment of the project (Les Deux Canons school) has been labeled “ecoschool” for 4 years and labeled E3D (level 3) for almost 6 years now. Our project, which will last 2 years, is inscribed in the continuity of the work that has been implemented for many years in our school regarding sustainable development.

This project aims at bringing awarereness, generating and enhancing initiatives related to sustainable development for all the students from the European partner countries concerned (Greece, Poland, Portugal and Reunion Island). It can also have an impact on the local and regional level by the means of a local communication and dissemination for the project and through the research of local partners (associations, professionals, local press and mass medias, etc…). We expect this project will have an effect on the participants, but also on their school staff, as well as the parents of the students involved, as the different activities will need the collaboration of people out of the project and working in the establishment and the collaboration of the families too.

Throughout these two years, this project will concern several groups of students from 11 to 14 years old, who will take over by writing and keeping a diary every step of the way, in order to maintain the project’s consistency.

Thus, the project will include several activities planned through a clear logic. Moreover, the results of each activity will be communicated and published on the eTwinning platform. At some point, short-exchanges will take place with all the partner countries (first Greece, then Poland, Portugal and finally Reunion Island). These short-exchanges aim will be the materialization of some activities made in advance and the preparation of the following ones. Before every exchange, videoconferences will be implemented according to each school technical means and possibilities.

– First of all, we will prepare an evaluation at the very beginning to draw up in inventory of what does already exist in each establishment, in the families of the students and at the local level (examples relevantly chosen on that theme in each partner establishment and/or region) concerning sustainable development.
It will thus allow an awareness on what is already done in that matter and then, the comparison between the different schools will inspire and enhance initiatives to improve the commitment of the establishment and/or region regarding sustainable development.

– Then, this theme being quite vast, we will focus in particular on the managing of waste and biodiversity in these different places of Europe. Thus, the partners will present and explain how waste is dealt with inside their schools, in their families or even their local areas. Afterwards, they will introduce and present their local biodiversity by showing a few examples. These examples will allow the discovery by all the participants of the fauna and flora of these different areas.

– Furthermore, they will be able to highlight the introduction of some endangered species, explain the origin and cause of that danger (human activities or other) and how the protection of these species is dealt with locally.

– Being familiar with this new biodiversity, the students will be brought to awareness regarding the importance of its preservation. This fundamental protection will be demonstrated with examples chosen locally and illustrating relevantly this theme.

So to conclude, this project will allow participants to:
– become aware that this matter concerns all of us
– have a betterknowledge of their region in terms of sustainable development
– give meaning to learning
– develop a sense of civic duty inside their establishements as well as in their families
– be ambassadors of their region during these various short-exchanges throughout Europe
– develop language skills
– discover other European cultures through this theme
– develop digital skills thanks to the use of the eTwinning platform, the creation of slide shows, videos, quiz, etc…

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 130588 Eur

Project Coordinator

Collège Les Deux Canons & Country: FR

Project Partners

• PRIMARY SCHOOL OF AVDIRA
• Agrupamento de Escolas de Montemor-o-Novo
• Szkola Podstawowa nr 11