Team Nature – Supporting eco-responsible behaviour with outdoor activities Erasmus Project

Project Title

Team Nature – Supporting eco-responsible behaviour with outdoor activities

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: Environment and climate change; Health and wellbeing; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

The ERASMUS Team Nature project originated from a shared concern between Collège Montgolfier, Paris (France) and Tegelhagens Skola, Sollentuna (Sweden) to place environmental issues at the core of their school curricula and teaching methods. Both schools encourage and value outdoor educational activities : outdoor sports activities in collège Montgolfier (orienteering, mountain biking, canoeing-kayaking) and outdoor educational activities and practical work for Tegelhagens Skola.

Getting the pupils to question themselves about their relationships to the environment, promoting a dialogue on these issues with pupils immersed in a foreign culture and a different natural environment, and, for both pupils and their teachers, learning from one another and share ideas and efficient professional practice from another European country : here are the main objectives which aim at defining an eco-responsible approach to European citizenship.
The group of participants is composed of 16 parisian pupils and 16 from Sollentuna, aged from 13 to 14, with an equal number of boys and girls and from different social backgrounds. The participants will be taking part in the project for the two years and be working in French-Swedish pairs from the very beginning.
The French and Swedish teaching staff have jointly developed this project during a preparatory stay of the Swedish delegation in Paris in March 2020. Both teams will alternate remote classes via the eTwinning platform and face-to-face activities (4 mobilities are planned). The pupils will be using English to communicate and will be taking part in several major events at the same time : the European School Sports Day, a common work sequence on “Save the Planet” in their English courses, exhibitions organized in both schools on Earth Day.
The project is meant to allow the pupils to acquire knowledge and skills gradually so they will be enabled to carry out specific learning activities during each mobility.
During the first mobility in Paris, the pupils will discover the outdoor sports activities practised in the urban outskirts of Paris. They will be attending conferences, seeing exhibitions, playing games on eco-responsibility and biodiversity at La Cité fertile, a partner third-place in Pantin (Seine-Saint-Denis).
During the second mobility, in Sweden, the discovery and common practice of outdoor educational activities will be central and allow the pupils and their teachers to be introduced to pioneering learning activities.
During the following mobility, in Sweden as well, the French-Swedish pairs will partake in sporting games in the archipelago in Stockholm, mainly based on outdoor sports activities (orienteering, mountain biking, canoeing-kayaking).
Last but not least, the final mobility in France will mark the close of this project with two major events : a three-day biking trip in the forestry natural park of the Champagne region and a final event on Earth day (April 22nd 2022) at La Cité fertile in Pantin : all the documents and creative materials designed by the pupils will be exhibited in an event gathering the members of the school community of the Collège Montgolfier, the representatives and participants of Sollentuna Skola and the representatives of the Académie de Paris.
We expect this project to arouse a greater awareness of our pupils’ own natural environment, develop more significant environmentally-friendly gestures in their daily habits and help them comprehend their personal impact on the environment.
We wish they could develop a greater interest in other European cultures, a desire to travel and share ideas with other European citizens. Finally, we wish this project to be an opportunity for teachers of both school staffs to create a fruitful exchange on educational methods as well as a way to enrich their professional practice and foster a dynamic evolution of their teaching methods.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 63820 Eur

Project Coordinator

Collège Montgolfier & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Tegelhagens skola