waste my love Erasmus Project

Project Title

waste my love

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: Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; Environment and climate change; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

Education for sustainable development is at the heart of the concerns of today’s societies. How to integrate this approach into a project ?
This is the objective of this project. Show that each European country has an approach and a teaching geared towards this problem. Waste geography is a modern approach to this new way of looking at youth around the world. They are both rejection and disgust but can also become real resources, be energy (anaerobic digestion) or material (recovery, repair). We have to change our look and see elsewhere what the status of waste is. What are the management practices,
What are the others doing ?
We launched a call for projects on e-twinning and three establishments were interested in this project and our approach, we decided to carry it out together. Two of them participated and are still participating in a K2 project, we will build on their experience to conduct it as best as possible.
We also wanted to involve the Ubelka college which belongs to our network to create a dynamic college / high school and put college and high school students in touch. We would also like many students to be able to participate in these mobilities to offer as many people as possible the opportunity to live this experience.
European identity is at the heart of our approach, it is insufficient or even nonexistent, moreover, the relation to the foreign language is for us necessary and little mastered by too many students.
We have set many goals for this project:
-Fighting against dropping out of school by working on the basis of an inclusive project. It concerns all the students involved in schools with this issue, eco-delegates (they have been present in French schools since this year) and will consist of a two-year renewable project because it is open to the whole of Europe.
– These are also the disciplinary skills – language, history, geography, education for sustainable development –
-Improve our teaching practices by the contribution of other professors. How do school systems work in different European countries and how can we appropriate them to modify our practices? Knowledge of all pupils and teachers of European culture.
-Allow the constitution of an European identity and the integration of students in the European space but above all to give birth to the European feeling.
-Discover another culture, travel to other countries for students who have done very little.
-Know how to communicate between Europeans.
-Living together an experience in the same place with the same objectives by promoting formal and non-formal education.
Our target are the students and showcase their investment in the school’s organizations. First, the high school eco-delegates and the college group that participates in the sustainable development workshop. However, it also seems important to include the members of the CVL (Conseil de Vie Lycéennes), the CVC (Conseil de Vie du Collège) and the MDL (Maison des Lycéens) who are at the heart of the institutions decision-making bodies. They will be able to decide and propose the actions for this project. The Joliot Curie high school is the bearer of this project and the other establishments by their diversity, their functioning must allow an exchange also in the diversity of education systems. The proposed activities, whether visits or workshops in each country, will allow collective work to be set up. Above all, we must manage to change the way young people look at waste, they must see it differently for better management. Each outing should lead to a pooling of discussions between students with a critical eye. Our final goal is the achievement of a good waste management practice charter built by the students and the commitment to do everything to achieve it. It will be voted on in each establishment, displayed and integrated into the establishment project. The dissemination of the charter aims to be extended outside the walls of the establishment: in families, the municipality, the territorial council (active on the issue of waste). We planned these exchanges over two years with 2 mobilities per year. We are planning a teachers’ meeting from October 2020 to be able to better organize all of the activities and mobility. We are already in contact by email and whatsapp. A twinspace has been created and should be operational quickly. Living Europe differently for pupils and teachers, understanding this “Europe” that many only know in school books but above all having the feeling of participating in a global action. : to be an actor of one’s citizenship, to be an actor of sustainable development.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 160280 Eur

Project Coordinator

lycee-joliot-curie & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Cesu Valsts gimnazija
• IES HISTÓRICO PADRE SUÁREZ
• 1st EPAL of ELEFTHEROUPOLI
• Collège Ubelka