Sustainable Future – Learning from life to life! Erasmus Project

Project Title

Sustainable Future – Learning from life to life!

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Health and wellbeing; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

Sustainable Future – Learning from life to life! is a two year project which objective is give knowledge to teachers about healthy living, recycling and saving environmental resources and clarify attitude and values. The importance of this project emerged when the IPCC 2018 (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report revealed the truth about the state of our climate. We are also very aware of the UN Sustainable Development Goal and want to support this too.

Objectives:
The main goal in this Project is sharing information and knowledge about environmental education and sustainable future through Europe, inspiration and personal growth of people involved in the Project. Children`s participation in a process of education is in essential role. Active and responsible participation and involvement create a foundation for a democratic and sustainable future. This requires skills and a desire in the individual to participate in the activities of the community and trust in their own possibilities of making a difference. The purpose is to show the children that all over the world there are people who care about their future and they can influence themselves very much to it.
All schools have a common interest to develop international cooperation skills, achieve teachers professional growth, give knowledge about sustainable future and find new methods to teach children.

Number and profile of participants:
The focus group is both teachers and children and indirectly their parents in five participating school. Approximately 880 children and 150 personnel is going to benefit indirectly from the activities organised by the project. The focus group of children and teachers will vary from school to school. The children ages will be from 3 to 16. There is going to be six themes that all relate to a sustainable future: Food Education, Recycling and Sorting, Waste handling and Energy production, Saving Energy, Water and Climate warming.

Description of Activities:
In this Project there will be seven transnational meetings where the participants will plan the upcoming theme together; how to introduce a topic to children, what to teach on the subject and what activities are done with children during the period with that theme. In those meetings participants will share the previous activities done with children, share their own expertise and good practice. The meetings includes professional debates and discussion as well.

Results and impact envisaged:
By the end of this Project the teachers and children from all school will have greater understanding of the sustainable future and what it means in action. All activities take into account the necessity of an ecologically, culturally and economically sustainable way of living. Everyday choices and actions reflect a responsible relationship with nature and the environment.

Long term benefits:
Alongside each of the classroom activities planned there will be a transitional project meeting. This will follow on from the classroom activity, with the sharing of work that has been produced by the children, in preparation for each meeting. In addition, at these project meetings staff will share their own expertise and good practice, both at school level and at national level. Each project meeting will also have a specific focus for example: planning, assessment, classroom resources. Furthermore, these project meetings will be carried out in a four phase approach: review of previous meetings and impact of activities so far, professional debates and discussion, classroom observations and an opportunity to plan the next activity together.

Overall, the two year project will lead to improvement in the knowledge and understanding of sustainability and developing the international work within the five partnership schools. Due to the age range of the children involved, the activities will be delivered and carried out in the mother tongue of each partnership school. However, various pieces of work from each activity can be translated so that the children can share and compare their work. This sharing of work will help raise the standards of the children and also the participating teachers.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 129604 Eur

Project Coordinator

Muotialan päiväkoti & Country: FI

Project Partners

• Washingborough Academy
• Osnovna sola Brusnice
• Kämmenniemen Päiväkoti
• Materska skola Nad Parkem