The French and Hungarian local authorities wish to cooperate in the field of sustainable development. Firstly, to list the technology-related educational innovations of jobs in their respective regions, to evaluate educational, research and economic development and finally to share the practice and methods of both territories in those fields in order to combine the most interesting ideas.Their partners are local secondary schools but also research and upper education facilities. Looking into the problem from a wider perspective would especially impact younger generations through a more diverse awareness (instructive, innovational, technological development) to problems related to sustainable development. It is why local associations are also invited to join this strategic partnership. The issue is to establish in each region a permanent network reuniting various participants in order to offer new training development and technological innovation opportunities to young people.The partner institutions will cooperate through regular project meetings but also through the creation of an online community. In the framework of project-related activities they will lead to polls/inventories with the students, tutors, professionals and families. They will also organize conferences dealing with various subject such as the energy transition, the balance sheet of the COP 21, in preparation for COP 22, as well as workshops.In doing so, they will apply a collective approach (and common if possible) in the two regions. To this end, an inventory of good practices for teachers, tutors and local authorities will be published. All the results and the resources will be shared on the website of the project but also during an exhibit displayed in both regions. This approach will allow the introduction of the methodology and resources developed through the project to other schools and local authorities.
Through this project, two local communities, French and Hungarian, initiate a collaboration in sustainable development whose initial goal was to compile the pedagogical innovations related to the technological evolution of jobs in their respective regions and to evaluate the synergies in teaching, research and economic development in view of sharing the practices and methodologies in these fields in both of the territories. The exchanges that took place throughout the project allowed them to gather the most efficient ideas susceptible of evolving towards concrete accomplishments. In addition to two regional communities of Nîmes Métropole and the Department of Bàcs –Kiskun, the partners participating in this project are: - two senior high schools from each of these regions (Dhuoda Professional High School , Albert Camus General and Technical High School, Szeged Déri Miksa Professional Training School, Pilote SZTE Primary, Middle and High School), - two colleges and research institutes from each region (Nîmes Institute of Technology, Szeged University, Kecskemét Superior School), - two local associations working in informal educational activities for a large public and more specifically young generations (European House, Europe Direct Center of Nîmes, Natura Hungaria Foundation, Nîmes Métropole is in charge of the global coordination of the project. One of the expected results is to set up in each region a permanent network bringing together different participants in order to propose new training opportunities and development of technological innovations for the young. The main activities included: - the 4 transnational meeting (two in Nîmes and two in Hungary) after bringing together all the partners and developing exchanges in order to determine each one’s expectations and needs as well as to confront the various concepts and approaches. - the learning activities: 2 exchange sessions between senior high school teachers specifically oriented on teaching practices and the particularities of the French and Hungarian teaching systems. The main achievements of the project are: - an initial inventory of the initiatives developed by the partners in matters of sustainable development, - a review of research capacities in sustainable development in higher education institutions in order to identify future potential research collaboration, - the organization of a seminar of exchanges and reflection on the theme of innovation and innovative practices. - the organization of a public consultation in Nîmes on the theme of “Sustainable Development - New Jobs, New Skills”, - the organization in Hungary of awareness sessions concerning the issues of sustainable development. The final aim is to produce a guide of innovative practices in the context of sustainable development. This trilingual document (French, Hungarian, English) contains 27 files showing the most significant practices in matters of sustainable development and is available online on the sites of the participating institutions. Lastly, bilateral collaborations between the French and Hungarian partner schools begun with this project will be continued in the future.