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ERASMUS FOR FUTURE - Young Europeans facing climate change as a common challenge

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2020-1-DE03-KA229-077300
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | School Exchange Partnerships Funder Contribution: 111,662 EUR

ERASMUS FOR FUTURE - Young Europeans facing climate change as a common challenge

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In our Erasmus+ KA229-Project “ERASMUS FOR FUTURE“, schools from five different countries are going to deal with the topic climate change together. This topic is equally important for all the people involved. Nevertheless, the schools come from five very different parts of Europe, including different geographical, climatic and economic conditions, and thus have their very own approaches to this topic. The project’s goal is, on the one hand, to sharpen our students’ and our communities’ awareness concerning climate change including a willingness to get involved on a political and personal level. On the other hand, we want to show our participating students European diversity, and, very importantly, the relevance of European and global co-operation as this challenge can only be tackled by common international collaboration. Within the framework of the interdisciplinary project work the students involved are going to gain and enhance various competences e. g. on the intercultural, digital and linguistic level.Secondary schools from Denmark, Spain, Rumania, Turkey and Germany will take part in the project. These partner schools were chosen as participants because of their students’ common age and their geographical location in order to ensure a broad European variety (see above). Students from the age of 14 to 16 will patriciate in the project. During the project’s time span of 24 months they will work in school clubs on the topics of the project’s particular parts. Three meetings will be held to ensure the exchange of their work results and to enable further common work on the project. These meetings will be joined by 5 to 8 students from each country and 2-3 mentoring teachers. There will be two more meetings of the mentoring teachers, one to prepare the project with regards to content and organisation, the other to evaluate it. The project is divided into three thematic parts: in the first part of the project the students are going to collect information about the causes and consequences of climate change. On the one hand the students from the different schools will deal with the same tasks as they will all explore the situation in their home-country or region with regards to climate-damaging conduct and country specific perceptible and anticipated consequences of climate change. On the other hand each team will do research on different aspects of climate change, e.g. concerning main polluters and global consequences. Their results will be provided on posters which will be presented in an exhibition during the first meeting and subsequently during all other meetings of the project so that all schools and school communities can benefit from it. In the second part the students will deal with the question which political actions, meant to confront climate change, are possible and advisable. They come in contact with politicians in their communities, but also on a regional and national level, and investigate which strategies and interests exist, for example with regards to a reduction of climate-damaging emissions. The second meeting will be organised and performed as a simulation game with the title “International climate conference”. Mixed groups with students from all the participating countries working together are going to represent five nations, which are affected by climate change on very different levels (USA, China, the Netherlands, Bangladesh) and which consequently promote oppositional interests. The mixed groups will be formed in advance of the second meeting which enables the students to prepare thoroughly their role as representatives of one of the nations mentioned above. In order to do so they will communicate via eTwinning. In the last part of the project the students reflect on manageable measures that will boost climate protection at their schools and in their communities. They will engage in activities to promote such measures at their schools. Their efforts will be filmed and presented during the last meeting. The results of all the project parts will be made accessible and usable for all the students of the five schools as well as for other interested people via the public Twinspace and the Erasmus+ project platform, in particular the poster exhibition with all its collateral material and the simulation game “International climate conference”. Another lasting benefit is ensured by the establishment of climate friendly measures at the five different schools. These measures will be filmed and thus can form an example for other schools. Sustainability and climate protection are going to be implemented into the overall concepts of all five schools in order to turn them into climate friendly schools. We want to achieve an enhancement of our students’ key skills through their participation in this project oriented and interdisciplinary learning experience in a genuine thematic context.

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