"Boost your green" is a strategic partnership developed by six vocational sschools from Europe, with the financial support of the European Commission through the programme Erasmus+, Key Action2. It emerged from the need to offer schools some concrete tools in order to help them mplement sustainable development in the lives of all people attending a vocational schoolThe project activities are designed in such a way as to involve students and staff in the process. The project will start with a survey, it will continue with the implementation of workshops meant to boost their motivation and also with practical activities .The methods we are going to use in the project are the non-formal ones (workshops, peer-to-peer, "....)There will be two results developed by our partnership - a collection of resources, "Boost your green!', meant to increase students' motivation and a pedagogical kit "Teaching sustainable development " offering lesson plans, materials and good practice examples.By getting involved in this project, the students and staff will understand how important sustainable development is, they will improve their motivation. Besides these, the valuable exchange of good practice and the development of new teaching methods and materials will allow teachers to make sustainable development more attractive, thus contributing to students' success in their life and show them team and transversal work .
"BOOST YOUR GREEN", a 36-month project supported by France, is fully in line with the desire to adapt to the current challenges of sustainable development by developing basic and transversal knowledge through innovative methods for students. As sustainable development was a topic of common interest to students, teachers and school staff, the goal was to increase the citizenship spirit of all, including low-level students. Some countries are more or less advanced in the implementation and teaching of sustainable development. The project has allowed us to compare existing practices and learn from each other, reflect on how we teach and share new ideas to improve the transfer of knowledge and practices within schools. The participating schools are: - Vocational high school Jules Le Cesne du Havre, en France, porteur du projet. - Vocational high school Kartal Şehit Salih Alışkan Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi de Istanbul en Turquie - Vocational high school Escola Profissional Amar Terra Verde de Villa Verde au Portugal - Vocational high school Secondary Municipal School Taki Daskalo de Bitola en République de Macédoine du Nord - Vocational high school Colegiul Technic « Transilvania » de Baia Mare en Roumanie - Vocational high school Profesionalna Gimnaziya po Ikonomicheska Informatika ‘Dzhon Atanasov » de Targovishte en Bulgarie Six themes of work were chosen and developed throughout the project to treat sustainable development as a whole and make it understood its importance: - food, - waste, - solidarity, - energy, - water - biodiversity. The project began with an inventory of what is done in each school, it continued with the establishment of workshops to stimulate their motivation and also with practical activities (company visits). The methods used in the project were non-formal (workshops, peer-to-peer, '....) The result developed by our partnership - a collection of resources "Boost your green!", Intended to increase the motivation of students, combining a teaching kit "Teaching sustainable development" offering lesson plans and ideas for good practice (actions to be implemented at school to promote sustainable development). By becoming involved in this project, students and staff have understood the importance of participating in actions for sustainable development. In addition, the valuable exchange of good practices and the creation of new teaching methods and materials have enabled teachers to make sustainable development more attractive, thus contributing to students' success in their lives and showing them what the teamwork and transversal, while guiding them towards eco-citizenship. The different institutions will also be able to put in place sometimes simple measures for sustainable development and involve other partners such as communities. In order to achieve its goals, BoosYourGreen held 4 coordinator meetings between teachers and 3 short-term mobility for students. After these three years of project, for the students as for the teachers, the exchanges were rich: they discovered other cultures, other schools, other ways of learning and other cities. They were proud to report to other delegations on the actions implemented in their school and cope with the language barrier.