What a Wonderful World Erasmus Project

Project Title

What a Wonderful World

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; Gender equality / equal opportunities; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

This project will involves five schools: Szkoła Podstawowa nr 2 w, Rydułtowach Poland, Mustafa Üstündağ Ortaokulu, Instambul Turkey, Amberley Primary School, New Castle UK, IC IV Stanziale San Giorgio a Cremano (NA), Italy and Second Primary School of Voutes, Crete Greece. Our pupils’ age ranges from 6 to 13 years and they come from a variety of different social and economic backgrounds and, in some cases, from different Nations. We have many pupils with special needs, including physical disability, behavioral, emotional and social development needs.
This project comes from the awareness that now, more than ever before, sustainable development represents an unavoidable challenge for all countries. In this challenge young generations play a strategic role and therefore they need to be informed and, above all, to get involved.
With this project our students will be provided with the knowledge required in order to understand the key issues that put at risk us and future generations: climate change, resources depletion, environmental pollution and the inequity that, from an economical as well as social point of view, characterizes the modern world. In particular we will educate our students to respect nature, their urban environment as well as others, regardless their economical status or gender. In order to achieve this goal we will explore sustainability from three different perspectives: environmental, social and economical.
We strongly believe that sustainability has to start from our daily life: from the choices we make when we decide what we eat, how we travel, what we buy and what we do with our free time. For this reason the project focuses on laboratories that will be strictly related to children’s daily routine: this way they will never forget that the sustainable solution is often available and probably worth exploring. Through such laboratories we will lead our students to look for beauty and create beauty around them and in particular, at school, in the natural parks/ public gardens, in the urban context they belong to, in heritage buildings. They will discover, preserve and value those traditions from the past that promote, in their nature, a sustainable way of living. We will involve more and more our students in STEAM disciplines because we know that this generation will need specific competences in order to face the challenges of the future. We will enhance our students’ digital skills so they will learn to produce and communicate in many different ways. We will also propose our children site visits by which they will get direct experience of what they study as well as CLIL sessions that will be very important to improve language skills.
Our children will explore plenty of communication means and styles: they will produce documentaries, songs and poems, picture books, guides, coding scripts, cartoons, magazine articles, a recipe book. They will work together on the production of artwork, toys and a vegetables garden. They will work on a sustainability hub within their own community.
Associations working in the sustainability and heritage sector will be involved in order to give pupils a wider perspective on the topics of the project. The local community will also be actively involved through a series of events according to a set calendar with key dates such as the World Energy Efficiency Day, the Earth Day and the Erasmus day.
We will use social media such as Instagram, TV and radio to disseminate our project and we will dedicate a specific area to Erasmus on our school’s website, so that everyone in our communities can have direct access to the material produced within this experience.
The Children’s and Teachers’ mobilities will be extraordinary moments for both teachers and students. They will be allowed to experience different cultures, ways of living and approaching sustainability in different countries. These will be very important moments for personal and professional growth since all project’s participants will be allowed to explore specific subjects, significantly improving their knowledge and background as well as language skills.
The e-Twinning Platform will play a very strategic role in this project since it is going to be a means of communication as well as a learning tool for both teachers and students. It will help us to share information but also to meet up in a virtual environmnet should we be unable to travel for emergency reasons.
This project represents a continuation of a path we have all started in our schools during the last years, aiming to make our school, our teaching activities and our life styles more sustainable. This has happened through a series of projects in which we have tackled different aspects of this complex subject. This Erasmus + Project represents a great opportunity to think about these issues in a global perspective, enhancing our knowledge and awareness for present and future years.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 119280 Eur

Project Coordinator

I.C. 4 Stanziale & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Second Primary School of Voutes
• Mustafa Üstündağ Ortaokulu
• Szkoła Podstawowa nr 2 w Rydułtowach
• Amberley Primary School