“The educational center as a generator of change for sustainability” Erasmus Project

Project Title

“The educational center as a generator of change for sustainability”

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: Transport and mobility; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship

Project Summary

The project entitled “The educational center as a generator of change for sustainability” brings together four public centers: the IES Santamarca (Madrid, Spain), the Liceo Statale Classico e Lingüístico Cristoforo Colombo (Genova, Italy), the LGT Marie Curie (Vire Normandie, France) and Jac. P. Thijsse College (Castricum, The Netherlands) with a COMMON OBJECTIVE: to get students to convert their theoretical knowledge about environmental and sustainability issues into a real, concrete and authentic commitment, leading them to modify their styles of life and become engines of transformation in their environment, that is, getting participants to pass from knowing to doing.
The four centers share certain signs of identity: commitment to social equity and care for the environment, commitment to art and culture as forms of expression and social transformation, and a strong European vocation, which translates into the involvement of all of them in programs European, bilingual exchanges or programs. And also the four have detected the same NEED, in that they have observed that their students have theoretical knowledge about the deterioration of the environment, excessive energy expenditure or inadequate waste management, but do not show a real commitment in their lives to change this situation. Hence, from the verification of this lack, the need to start this project has arisen.

The PRIORITIES to be worked on are: environmental and climatic; transport and mobility; social inclusion; citizen participation / responsible citizenship. The activities that will be carried out will be aimed at achieving the following OBJECTIVES:

– Know the national and local European legislation on the subject of the project.
– Obtain statistical data on energy use and consumption, consumption habits, mobility.
– Promote changes in our daily life that can foster sustainable habits.
– Produce documents, short films, dramatizations, and advertising spots.
– Publicize the project and its results, in different media.
– Stimulate the participation of students from various backgrounds and financial resources.
– Provide students with knowledge, skills and tools to participate as active agents

A DISTINCTIVE SIGN of the project will be work in the emotional, intellectual and behavioral dimensions using artistic expression and fostering creativity and a critical spirit and awareness for change. To do this, the teachers and students of the four centers will carry out different types of TASKS:

-Diagnostic, through questionnaires and audits.
-Reflection and analysis, with analysis of different European, national and local laws.
-Promoters of change, such as holding debates, participating in cycling routes or preparing a decalogue of good practices in search of a sustainable lifestyle.
-Propagators of change, whose purpose will be to spread these changes and spread them through social networks and official channels (eTwinning, EducaMadrid).
-Valuation of the changes achieved, through final questionnaires.

These tasks will be exposed and exchanged in the following TRANSNATIONAL ACTIVITIES:
MEETING IN GENOA: 10 mobility of STUDENTS and 3 of TEACHERS
MEETING IN VIRE: 10 mobility of STUDENTS and 3 of TEACHERS
MEETING IN CASTRICUM: 10 mobility of STUDENTS and 3 of TEACHERS
MEETING IN MADRID: 10 mobility of STUDENTS and 3 of TEACHERS

The METHODOLOGY used will be service-learning (students committed to their environment), which implies research, reflection and greater autonomy on the part of the student, crossing the barriers of the center and getting involved in the environment and cooperative learning (inclusive methodology)
Through the mobilities students will exchange proposals and experiences and before and between the mobilities they will work together using eTwinning.

As a RESULT, based on its need and the proposed objectives, with hopes to obtain long-term benefits that go beyond those obtained by the participating students and teachers, but will expand and radiate throughout the educational community and, even more, to the whole environment. Specific products will be: decalogue of good practices, final surveys with changes in lifestyle, Greencard, green badge, spots, dramatizations, photographic exhibitions, infographics, etc.
Finally, each of the objectives is evaluated through EVALUATION INDICATORS, based on the objectives and defining indicators for each of them. Later the evaluation instruments and the moments in which they will be applied are specified.
The project contemplates the DISSEMINATION, both during its realization and later. One year later the impact achieved will be reviewed.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 131656 Eur

Project Coordinator

IES SANTAMARCA & Country: ES

Project Partners

• LGT MARIE CURIE -1914155553
• Liceo Statale Classico e Linguistico Cristoforo Colombo
• Jac.P.Thijsse College