This multilateral KA2 project entitled "Green Jobs for our Planet Earth" takes place in the field of secondary education. The general issues our project deals with are career guidance, job market, sustainable development, IT and linguistic skills and EU awareness. The main challenge our project will try to take up is to make students discover as many green jobs as possible during our 24-month period and present the ecofriendly industries as attractive and dynamic professional fields that should be taken seriously by teenagers. This theme we'll work on is perceptive on the European level but is also relevant on the international level with the UNESCO decision to define 2017 as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development. We want to strengthen the link between education, the job market and the economic world that is specific to our school areas. We also seek to promote at the international level the assets of the economic sectors located in our schools areas, which are sometimes isolated. The project has three objectives: 1) the promotion of sustainable jobs so as to develop a dynamic image of this type of green industries which are sectors providing more and more job opportunities that are interesting for teenagers' career plans 2) give teenagers the opportunity to behave as European modern citizens and present the green industries of their regions to other European friends by using mainly English as a foreign language and documents created thanks to ICT 3) sensitize teenagers about global issues by advocating 21st century priority ethic values such as decent working conditions for everyone and respect of the environment.This partnership has been coordinated by the Collège du Carbet in MARTINIQUE (overseas department of FRANCE) and comprises 9 participating schools selected via Etwinning and located in ENGLAND (Shotton Hall Academy), GERMANY (Staatliche Fach- und Berufsoberschule), IRELAND (Eurekaschool), ITALY (Liceo Scientifico "Camillo Golgi"), LITHUANIA (Kedainiai Sviesioji Gymnasium), NORWAY (Bremnes ungdomsskule), ROMANIA (Liceul Teoretic "Onisifor Ghibu") and SPAIN (Instituto Pedro Cerrada). We form a culturally rich and varied partnership that has been active for almost a year and links countries and schools which are distant from one another but united by several common points. There is also a good balance between middle schools and high schools.We have planned 2 transnational meetings in Lithuania and Germany and 4 learning mobilities in Spain, England, Norway and Martinique where a hundred of participants (students, teachers and headteachers) will visit sustainable businesses, discover other school systems and cultures, and practise foreign languages. Our goal is to open up to the international level and enable students to learn in a non-formal way. We try to raise students'awareness by involving them into concrete educational activities leading to the production of shows, videos, a jobs guide, creative writing pieces, educational brochures and Powerpoint presentations whereby students learn and understand that sustainable industries are interesting sectors for their careers and personal developments. At the local, regional and national levels, the dissemination of our project's programme, activities and outputs will be carried out via our schools' and Local Education Authorities' websites, notices, posters and meetings with staff and parents inside our schools. We'll also resort to the use of local press, TV and radio channels. On the European and international levels, we'll communicate and disseminate about our project thanks to the Etwinning, European Commission and Edmodo platforms.Students will greatly benefit from our project and form enlightened opinions on sustainable industry and will promote it. They 'll understand the links between their careers and sustainable development. They will have discovered a wide range of professions that might have an influence on their careers' plans. They will be more familiar with ICT and modern languages, especially English. They will also be able to define themselves as European citizens while remaining proud of their national heritages. The school staff will develop new skills, give more sense to their professional experiences and work with more motivated students. The project will be included in the partner schools' physics, history, biology, geography and modern languages curricula. The recognition and validation of these learning outcomes will be materialized by the creation of own European Language Portfolios and the edition of Youthpass certificates. All our project's outputs can be used and witnessed inside the partner schools in the future, after the project's period, but also outside the schools, for most of them, by other teachers, representatives of our Local Education Authorities and Local Councils or members from the civil society, such as parents, associations and business managers.
Our projet is in keeping with the great concerns of the 21st century, namely the protection of the environment and meets the stakes of secondary education such as career planning and the improvement of the students' IT and linguistic skills. It enables our students to become aware of their European citizenship. We have reached our main objective by making our students discover in depth about 21 different green jobs in the partnership of 8 schools within the two years of the project. Our students have improved their linguistic skills by practising 8 different languages. They have a better command of Information Technology thanks to the frequent use of social networking, electronic mails, the Twinspace and the project's website where they wrote comments. Their IT skills have also improved by their frequent pratice of video editing, wordprocessing and Powerpoint. They have increasingly become aware of their European citizenship by being in regular contact with children coming from the other member countries of the European Union with whom they have several points in common. Our partnership is made up of 8 secondary schools, namely 4 middle schools located in Martinique (France), in Norway, in England and in Spain and 4 high schools in Italy, Romania, Lithuania and in Germany. Some balance has been consequently set up between the different levels of secondarty education. We have asked our students to design brochures for the visitors of the green businesses located in their region. They also made video interviews of green professionals. They performed mock job interview role plays and created green jobs ID cards for the Final Guide of Green Jobs. Our results are numerous and the impacts of the project can be felt at 3 levels, those of the students, of the staff and the schools themselves.