BITE aimed to exchange good practices regarding nutrition, health and wellbeing, water and food sustainability and security, and to supply students with the appropriate tools to become active agents and critical consumers.The five school partners already participated in Erasmus + projects and come from the Meditarranen area (Italy, Cyprus, France, Portugal and Spain), this enabled them to unify criteria and to establish comparisons regarding dietary and nutrition culture.The main project’s objectives were the following: • effective students’ engagement with local and European food system issues through active problem solving, developing questions and investigating solutions; • improvement of students’ awareness of healthy practices related to nutrition and environment; • development of transversal skills, critical thinking and creativity by approaching the project’s tocip not only through STEM subjects but also through Literature and Arts; • improvement of STEM skills, foreign language and ICT competences; • promotion of European citizenship.During the transnational meetings in Spain, France and Portugal students participated to the following activities using different methodological procedures such as cooperative learning, learning by doing, debate in groups and individual assignments: • presentation of each partner school through video; • presentation and selection of the project’s logo during the first meeting in Spain; • oral presentation of the results of questionnaires about healthy food habits, food waste and water usage; • analysis and discussion of data applying mathematical and ICT knowledge (creation of statistics, charts, videos) • chemical and scientific experiments (analysis of energetic properties of food, of properties of industrial and homemade honey) • laboratory and learning-by-doing activities (healthy cooking workshops, creation of an “European Vegetables Garden” with seed coming from each partner country and of a compost using waste food and gardening,water footprint game) • meetings with local authorities and with experts (nutritionists and an Olympic sportsman in Barcelona, biological farmers in France and experts of sustainables diet and environment in Portugal) • visit to significant places (Sabadell Central Market, the biggest market in Caen, the natural park “Quinta do Pisão) • design of dissemination campaigns about the results of each meeting Students have raised their awareness of the connection between the food system, health and environment. They have improved their English language and ICT competence, such as their STEM skills. Cooperation in international teams and the establishment of European relationships helped to increase their social skills and to expand their horizons.As regards the impact on teachers, this project allowed the exchange of different teaching methods and practices and the awareness of the necessity of enhancing students’ key transversal skills. The successful European links established in this project will be continued through communication and further cooperation in video conferences, mails and blogs and Etwinning. Covid pandemia permitting partner schools are going to extend their cooperation in another Erasmus+ project in the near future. The projects results have been disseminated not only within partner schools but also to students’ families, local communities, bodies of professionals, Ministries of Education and university representatives. Through the project’s website, the Erasmus+ Project Result Database and the Etwinning Portal the project’s results will be exposed to a wider lifelong community. The outcomes and the activities of this project can be repeated in the future by other schools and teachers and be completely integrated in schools and national curricula.

This project was founded from the wish of encouraging pupils to engage with the themes of citizenship, democracy and environmental issues in everyday life and European context. The project provides pupils with an opportunity to gain a better understanding of their roles as European citizens and to a greater understanding of their democratic and environmental responsibilities. Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship is a cross curricular focus in all schools involved in this project. The project serves three different levels: International, national and local. International: Understanding how the political agenda and process in the EU institutions affects the european, national and local environment. National: Learn about the political environmental agenda in each of the participating countries, and the potentials of using the environment in a sustainable matter. Local: Focus on what individuals can do in their local community to act in an environmental responsible manner.The outcome of this project will be, that each school involved in the project, develops an environmental strategy for the school. The knowledge the students gain throughout this project is used for evolving the environmental strategy at their own school.This strategy will be shared with the local community by students in many different ways. They will for example host presentations at school, do a campaign in the surrounding area and deliver the strategy to the local politicians at the city council. Getting the local media involved during mobilities and when the strategy is done will also be a part of the project. As teachers our focus will be on Project-based Learning which is a student-centred and meaning-oriented pedagogical method which will ensure that democratic practice are carried out throughout our project.

"The ALL Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership aimed at deepening the knowledge on marine environment and ecosystem, with a focus on the Adriatic basin and generally on the Mediterranean Sea, by studying its habitats and environmental characteristics, as well as the impacts and threats of anthropic activities. The project also raised participants' awareness of the tight connections linking the various ecosystem’s components and showed how human activity is increasingly affecting the marine dynamics. The project originated from the Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership NECST (2014-2017), led by the same coordination unit (including FEEM, CivicaMente, and Eni as an associated partner). In addition to the partners involved in the coordination unit, the project involved two highly-qualified scientific partners with educational experience (Fondazione Cetacea and Blue World Institute) and four upper secondary schools from three countries representing different shores of the Mediterranean basin: Gela and Ravenna (Italy), Zagreb (Croatia), and Limassol (Cyprus). In particular, the project involved 190 students from the four partner schools and their teachers (14 in total), who worked together in national and transnational groups to maximize the impacts of the cultural exchange envisaged by the project.Project activities have been carried out according to the most modern and participatory ICT-educational methodologies, such as Open Mind and Citizen Science. In fact, the aim has been to develop and experiment with an innovative learning approach using digital technologies. In fact, the project created an effective immersive learning environment, facilitated classroom discussion, stimulated shared reflection, and promoted the acquisition of new skills through activities mediated by digital technology. Also, Citizen Science approach was used to conduct dynamic field research with digital tools connected through the Platform and the smartphone App; it allowed schools to be actively involved in the project. Finally, the multimedia Platform created a learning environment where participants progressively discovered the project digital contents with the support of virtual areas to which students directly contributed to their work.The project produced several Intellectual Outputs, including 1) multimedia scientific contents and webinars on marine biodiversity; 2) the Platform and the smartphone App, connected through QR codes during a treasure hunt in the cities where the schools are located (Blue Hunt); 3) 40 e-books made by students, divided into transnational groups, on assigned research topics; 4) a digital journalism newsletter on the project activities.The main impact of the ALL project consists in the replicability of its methodology in other schools at the national and European level, as well as in other scientific fields. This entails that the ALL methodology is an effective modern learning experience and a ""best practice"" that may be complementary to traditional learning approaches. In the long term, this impact will result in a greater awareness of all direct and indirect participants, as well as in a widespread awareness of environmental issues concerning the marine ecosystem, its environmental peculiarities, and changes caused by anthropic activities."