Transnational collaboration between schools to develop learners’ awareness of sustainable development and language learning Erasmus Project

Project Title

Transnational collaboration between schools to develop learners’ awareness of sustainable development and language learning

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: Energy and resources; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

This project concerns 2 Salesian schools which have a common vision of education. The two schools also have common priorities such as the development of the European and eco-environmental dimensions of education. They both have general and vocational courses at secondary school level.
Our general objective is to make our students aware of the eco-citizen and international dimensions of their courses and to develop our practices to allow all involved to take these dimensions into account.
To do this, they will have to improve their level in the English language which will be the common language of communication.
These objectives will be carried out in the different teaching sectors thanks to the three main axes of our project:
– Optimising our selective sorting practices, our recycling, and our reusing of materials for new projects: this concerns the 2 schools. There will be greater challenges for our hotel and catering sector and in particular for the vocational kitchens, as well as for the industrial sectors and in particular the various workshops in the 2 partner schools.
– Teaching students about what it is to “eat well”, about organic farming and water management: this concerns more particularly our vocational catering high school and the teaching of life and earth sciences in our school and in our partner’s school: With the help of our partner, we will create a pedagogical organic garden in which we will cultivate vegetables, fruit and aromatic plants that we will use in certain recipes. We will also work on canned or vacuum-packed recipes in partnership.
– Using our technological know-how to develop objects using renewable energies: this concerns more particularly colleagues and students in our industrial sectors who will share their complementary skills to make a bench, operating on solar energy and allowing to supply night lighting and to recharge batteries of small objects via USB ports.
In order to achieve our general objective in the best possible conditions, we plan to use the eTwinning platform and by doing so, improve teacher skills in the use of this tool. For this to work, the most experienced teachers will be able to share good practices.
The project will impact all learners of the 2 schools (as far as selective sorting is concerned for example). However, the students who will be the most involved in the carrying out of the project are students from the two schools, aged 14 to 18, in their final year of middle school or in their first, second or third year of their vocational high school courses. (Troisième, Seconde, Première, Terminale).
The vocational schools involved will be the hotel and catering, digital systems and wood work sections for the Sacré-Coeur school and the car mechanics and electronics sections at the Juan XXIII School. This represents around 100 students and 15 teachers per school. Of these, 20 students and 10 teachers will carry out mobilities.
The activities carried out will be aiming to gather and share reflections and experiences, to exchange on good practices and on the cooperation of the 2 schools on the 3 axes of the project. The first exchanges will take place on the eTwinning platform and will develop thanks to the different mobilities and the implementation of projects. The projects can be followed-up by sending certain products or objects (canned goods, vacuum-packed products, parts of the bench structure) along with the production of articles, photos and videos.
The methodology used to carry out the project is based on the planning of the objectives of each school to carry out the project, the distribution of the tasks to be carried out by each participant on each of the axes of the project, the carrying out of the different aspects of the project set out for each school, the continual exchange on the progress of the project and the difficulties encountered, the cooperation on the implementation of solutions.
The expected benefits for our schools are the structuring and development of our sustainable development programs as well as the awareness of the advantages that come with this collaboration within the European Union to carry out quality projects while having the possibility to look on our own practices with a new eye, improving them and growing in the process.
Communication about the project within our schools will contribute to the schools’ eco-citizen and European image and will shine a light also on the quality of the courses and training provided, which will promote their influence with the school community, the pupils, the teachers and the families as well as with the different partners involved.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 50409 Eur

Project Coordinator

Association André Coindre – Ensemble Scolaire du Sacré Coeur & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Escuela F.P. Salesianos Juan XXIII