Sustainable lifestyle in digital environments Erasmus Project

Project Title

Sustainable lifestyle in digital environments

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: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship

Project Summary

The aim of this interdisciplinary project is to offer an opportunity for upper secondary school students from five European countries to have an experience of international collaboration on the topic of great importance for themselves as young people living in digital environments. The title of the project is “Sustainable Lifestyle In Digital Environments (SLIDE)”. The project approaches them as active citizens in digital world and their multi-faceted roles and responsibilities as digital consumers from different perspectives closely linked to school subjects. This is done in the way that simulates the work of scientific community underpinning the values of education, open-mindedness, academic honesty and media literacy to address the importance of the independent work of scientific community in the modern era of alternative truth, where the young people are influenced by the flood of digital information.

The five upper secondary schools involved in the project come from Czech Republic, Finland, Iceland, Italy and Romania, meaning collaboration of students and teachers from countries with extensive geographic, cultural and socioeconomic coverage all sharing a common European cultural heritage. There will be approximately 20 students and 5-7 teachers involved from each participant school. The project will consist of four 2-3 months sub projects focused on a topics closely related to project topic from different perspectives. The topics of the sub projects are: 1. “Digital entertainment and life in social media”, 2. “Digital shopping”, 3. “Digital travelling” and 4. “Active citizenship in digital world”. The topics are studied by 3-5 teams of students from different directions each. There is at least one student from each participant school in the team meaning effective cultural exchange within and between the teams. Teams work in English under supervision of 2-3 teachers from participant schools.

The teams work through digital channels of communications on the given topic during the sub project and gather together in face-to-face project meeting in the end of the sub project. In the project meeting the teams finalize their sub project, make the conclusion and presentation and present it to the other teams as well as for the host school. A coherent summary of sub projects is delivered after the project meeting to all participant schools for the use in schoolwork and dissemination. In the project meetings the previous project is closed and the next one is launched.

In the project the students will learn and try the different roles required in the team work. Management of tasks and time are not only crucial skills in successful project, but also in their studies at the moment and in future. Team work in sub project work and project meetings will give them an opportunity to study the skills as well as to learn collaboration, presentation, use of foreign language and understanding different cultures. They will also deepend their subject specific understanding in the project work as well as in the visits to scientific institutes and and in consultations of professionals.

The teachers involved will have an opportunity to practice how to design, organize and manage a truly international multidisciplinary project. This is valuable for all participant schools improving the teachers’ professional development in concept based learning being an important educational method in modern innovative curricula. Teachers will be also able to compare and reflect their national curricula as well as exchange good teaching practices and learn about the system of higher education abroad. This is what they can share in their home schools for their colleagues and students.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 121797 Eur

Project Coordinator

Lyseonpuiston lukio & Country: FI

Project Partners

• Liceo Scientifico Statale Alessandro Volta
• Liceul Teoretic Iancu C. Vissarion
• Gymnazium Teplice
• Menntaskolinn vid Hamrahlid