There is no Planet B Erasmus Project

Project Title

There is no Planet B

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Health and wellbeing; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

We addressed issues and challenges the 21st century will have to face when it comes to matters of ecology, overpopulation, conflicts between countries, personal relationships, social media and education in a digitalised world. We put focus on the European added value and really stepped in and took matters in hands. We researched the topics at hand so we could in a second stadium really step into action and produced some very concrete outcomes (in the third and last stage).

In the first step we addressed climate change (like desertification, flooding, water shortage, extreme weather, food production, diseases, the environment) and put the focus on sustainability (in the domains of migration, resources, green energy, transport, new technologies, sustainable tourism). Our key focus lay in food and food production (up- and recycling, GM foods), the human impact on the planet (responsibility, population, overconsumption, pollution, waste management, food waste) and the relationships between humans as such (mental and physical health, media, distribution of wealth, conflicts, (inter)national organisations, digitalisation and job loss).

Our second step was to take matters in our own hands and provide the students with some hand-on experiences. Here the key focus of every partner school has proven to be of the utmost importance: we experienced water and waste management in a large city like Budapest, along with the issues tourism (in e.g.the flooding around the Danube) brings. In Estonia we visited entrepreneurial companies and universities to work with us on the topic of digitalisation and social media in education and in Belgium we brought experts in to help us with these issues and with the concept of promoting a healthy working and studying environment that is set for the 21st century. We furthermore optimised our school sustainability by measuring school waste, water, electricity… consumption. The German school had their focus on environmental issues. In Scotland and Germany, the focus also was on cooking together through the means of local and sustainable products.

Our outcomes were a cooking contest, digital stories, a recipe book (“The How to save the Earth Cookbook”), our project website and newsletters to disseminate our results among the students involved, but also to the broader school and the local town. Our participants were all 15-18 years old, but we also addressed the entire school community and as such reached an audience in between 8 and 18 year old as well as several members of staff. We claim to have been quite successful to change the life habits of all participants and schools involved and as thus created a more sustainable lifestyle that will benefit a healthy and creative working environment in the future.

Project Website

http://urspring4erasmus.eu/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 139264 Eur

Project Coordinator

Urspringschule Schelklingen & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Wallace Hall Academy
• Sint-Paulusschool campus College 3
• Xántus János Két Tanítási Nyelvű Gimnázium
• Hugo Treffneri Gümnaasium