Upcycling Erasmus Project

Project Title

Upcycling

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: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Creativity and culture; Energy and resources

Project Summary

European countries belong to the states with the highest consumption of resources world wide!
In order to save resources instead of wasting them in the future,in this project students learned how sustainable consumption and upcycling can work and how they can organise their daily life more sustainably.
Upcycling is a great way to spare resources. If used goods get “reanimated“ and seemingly useless things get a new function, mounts of waste will be reduced on our planet. Each of us can make his/her contribution, no matter if it appears to be only a tiny one.
Teachers and students of the 5-8 classes from Hungary, Slovenia and Germany started to made this challenge. Our schools were going to move things together, created new perspectives, were creative across borders and spared resources at the same time.
We designed and created new products from „trash“. We sold them at little markets. Also, for our schools ourselves upcycled products for schoolyards and classrooms were created.
Unfortunately, critical consumption is hardly an issue for a lot of adolescents.
Debates about cheap products and inhumane conditions of production are known but the nonconsumption hasn’t been of interest for many of our students yet.
By this project we encourage new ways of thinking and on the basis of specific examples we realise that you can also produce great things at a small level.
All our students get familiar and sensitised with the subject waste of energy and carful use of resources.
Exhibited art objects, bazaars and workshops helped us to create a perception of sustainability among the students, parents and teachers of all participating countries.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 37261 Eur

Project Coordinator

Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium Sömmerda & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Elso Obudai Német Nyelvoktato Nemzetiségi Általános Iskola
• Osnovna sola Janka Ribica Cezanjevci