The partners that take part in the project are a group of schools concerned with how to and why educate. Answering to the second question, we want to educate conscious citizens who could become active actors of the society in which they live. Citizens that do not only expect that institutions work for them, but that are also able to take the initiative to build a better future. Thus, we have focused our aims on values internationally accepted. That is the reason why we have chosen the aims of the Agenda 2030 as the common point for these actions. In order to form active students who are able to make decisions, we have to change our method of work and use active methodologies of education. We will have to educate, therefore, in competences and skills that allow them to analyse the problems which our society faces and later act to improve them. We will use methodologies of project based learning (PBL), based on collaborative work in the classroom and the use of ICTs. These methodologies will stand for a new manner to work in our schools. In the project there will participate 4 schools of the following countries: Italy, Germany, Greece and Spain. The vehicular languages will be English (common to all the participants) and French (2nd foreign language of some participants). The action will be mainly directed to the students of these schools aged between 14 and 16 years old. The work process will be the following: The first year we will work on making them aware of the 17 goals of the Agenda 2030. Each school will support 2 goals and will be responsible for making the students of the other schools aware of these goals. To achieve this, the students and professors will propose to the rest of the schools activities related to these goals. The process of work will be the following: Each school will defend 2 goals which are related to the surroundings or the characteristics of the school. The assignation is as follows: - Goals 2 and 17: Italy. - Goals 6 and 15: Greece. - Goals 7 and 12: Germany. - Goals 3 and 14: Spain. To work on these goals the process will be the following; 1- Presentation of the goals with an activity the need of achieving this goal will be highlighted. 2- Selection of measures that can be done by the students. 3- Implementation of the measures adopted. The school that will defend these goals will propose activities about these goals for the other schools. Besides, in each mobility, we will mainly work on the goals assigned to each centre. The work of the mobilities will consist of: - The students, divided in international groups, will do conciousness-raising activities included in the goals of the mobility. - Visits related to the goals proposed: - The students of each school will present infrastructures, industries and/or innovative projects that are being carried out in the surroundings of their school and serve to the achievement of the goals of this mobility. This will serve also to work on the goal 9 of the Agenda 2030. - Presentation of characteristic or innovative educational practices of the school for the visitor teachers to work the goal. This goal will be also worked applying the methodology PBL in the project. The 7 remaining goals will be worked together among all the partners: - Goals 1 and 2: The students will collect foods and clothes for associations of charity and will prepare a caring market where the students will earn funds for local NGO. - Goal 5: The schools will do differents activities on the 25th of November and the 8th of March. - Goals 11 and 13: During the first year an eco-audit in each one of the participant schools will be made. Then, they will propose different measures to improve the sustainability of the school and at the end of the 2nd year we will do a new eco-audit. - Goal 8 ("Decent Work"): Throughout all the project the pupils will develop competences that will prepare the students for the world of work. In addition, we will simulate a process of selection for the students' cooperative of Spain. - Goal 16 ("Peace"): We will celebrate the 30th of January. The results that want to be achieved in this project are, therefore, the improvement of our educational practice, adopting the PBL methodology. In addition, we want to contribute to the awareness of the goals of the Agenda 2030 in all the educational community and in the surroundings of the schools. We want to educate active citizens concerned with the improvement and the defence of their social and environmental surroundings. During the project we will advertise our actions in the social networks and in the hashtags of the Agenda 2030. We expect that this methodology of work will redound to the usual practice of the teachers and will extend to all the school. We also expect to systematise the education in the values of the Agenda 2030 in the participant schools.
The project has counted with the participation of schools in Germany, Greece, Italy and Spain. Each of the schools had some particular characteristics that have served to enrich the other schools. Carlo Schmid Oberschüle, has the "Berliner Klima Schüle" award that certifies schools that have a responsible management with the environment, also has international programs of cooperation for development. Protypo Gymnasio Zosimaia School is a center for high-skill students. Istituto Professional "Federico II" is a reference professional training school in the region and leads diverse collaboration projects with the University of Enna. IES Clara Campoamort has received the Honorable Mention of the innovation awards given by the GSD Foundation in collaboration with the Ministry of Education. The objective of the project has been to share the know-how of each school to work on the objectives of the Agenda 2030, which have served to achieve our great objective, which is to educate citizens who are aware of their needs and who are active entrepeneurs of the society in which they live. The project has involved a large number of students since many of the activities have been carried out in the classroom, with the whole of the group participating. However, in all the schools there has been a group of students who have been asked for extra work throughout the project. This group, which has participated in the mobilities, has been of 76 students in total. The age of the these students has been between 14 and 18 years. These students body has been selected for their motivation and involvement in the project. The Agenda 2030 includes global goals, adaptable to different environments and situations. Our intention has been to adopt multiple work strategies that allow us to approach more adequately the work of these objectives and the development of the competences of the participating students, that is why we have used different approaches and different methodologies to carry out the activities. In the work carried out within the class, all the students have participated and we have elaborated a didactic guide of the activity, relating it to the current curriculum and looking for a multidisciplinary approach. The evaluation has been done using rubrics. In order to involve the schools as a whole, some specific dates have been dedicated (such as women's day) to work in a monothematic way one of the goals. Likewise, seminars have been held with the participation of experts who have involved students from different classes. The mobilities of the project, have served to work, all toghether, 2 goals that were related with the surroundings of the host school. Finally, there has been an activity that has allowed a direct collaboration between the students of the participating schools. This activity consisted in the realization of an eco-audit in the schools, followed by the decision of measures and their implementation. In all the phases of the eco-audit, the students have interacted in international groups with various communication tools. The collaboration between the different schools has also been diverse. In the work within the subjects, the teachers of each center have carried out the activity according to their programming and curriculum, but there has been a communication with the teaching staff of the subject of the other schools, in such a way, the teachers have learned of the experience and, when it was considered, it has been adapted to the characterisitics of the school and the curriculum. The realization of days dedicated to an objective has allowed a previous communication between the schools to organize this day and by this way the teachers have shared ideas to work together. In this sense, we have also worked together in the activities proposed within the "Global Goal Lessons" (educational resources provided by the UN to work with the goals of the Agenda 2030). Finally, the eco-audit has made possible to experience the realization of an international project of real collaboration among students. Working in this way has allowed schools in general and students in particular, to actively work on the Agenda 2030, putting into operation the necessary skills and giving a practical framework to their training. On the other hand, the participating teachers have learned new methodologies to work properly on the competences. This learning will become part of the usual practice of the participating schools. Likewise, the eco-audit carried out will allow the participating schools to improve their ecological habits.