A new energy for new European citizens

Project summary

Renewable energy has now been an important topic for a few years in Europe but, even if its part in the global energy production has grown a little, it still remains important to discuss about the best ways to produce energy in Europe.With this project, we want to inform students, children, parents and teachers about the chances and risks of renewable energy. The students meet in different countries in multinational groups. They discover a place, where renewable energy is produced, the region and the surroundings. They learn how this power plant works and the characteristic necessities to produce renewable energy just in this place.During each meeting the students work in multinationanl groups and produce together the presentations they will use afterwards in primary schools.We arrange for four students’ meetings and two teachers’ meetings in three years. In each meeting of about 30 students and 10 teachers from 5 countries, the students get to know each other first and form multinational groups. Then, we propose them to visit places where renewable energy is produced and to prepare different kinds of presentations in workshops. They create a document or a small humourous presentation for children in English. The students translate the presentations into their mother tongue and give them in primary schools when they are back in their countries. In this authentic situation they take the part of a teacher for younger students. At the end of the project, we want to organize an exhibition in every participating country with all the presentations and documents where all the project partners will take part. Children, students, parents, teachers, the partner organisations and all interested people will be invited to form their own opinion about the useful and destructive power of energy. They can see different places all over Europe where energy is produced and compare them to their own region. All the presentations and documents about renewable energy will be available on the internet without restriction. The participating schools and primary schools will publish them on their homepages, just as the participating partner organisations do. They are free to be used in any primary or secondary lesson about renewable energy.