We want to address issues and challenges the 21st century will have to face when it comes to matters of ecology, overpopulation, conflicts between countries, personal relationships, social media and education in a digitalised world. We want to put focus on the European added value and really step in and take maters in hands. We want to first research the topics at hand so we can in a second stadium really step into action and produce some very concrete outcomes (in the third and last stage). In the first step we want to address climate change (like desertification, flooding, water shortage, extreme weather, food production, diseases, the environment) and put the focus on sustainability (in the domains of migration, resources, green energy, transport, new technologies, sustainable tourism). Our key focus will lie in food and food production (up- and recycling, GM foods), the human impact on the planet (responsibility, population, overconsumption, pollution, waste management, food waste) and the relationships between humans as such (mental and physical health, media, distribution of wealth, conflicts, (inter)national organisations, digitalisation and job loss). Our second step will be to take matters in our own hands and provide the students with some hand-on experiences. Here the key focus of every partner school will prove to be of the utmost importance: we want to experience water and waste management in a large city like Budapest, along with the issues tourism (in e.g.the flooding around the Danube) brings. In Estonia we want to visit entrepreneurial companies and universities to work with us on the topic of digitalisation and social media in education and in Belgium we want to bring experts in to help us with these issues and with the concept of promoting a healthy working and studying environment that is set for the 21st century. We furthermore want to optimise our school sustainability by measuring school waste, water, electricity… consumption. The German school will have their focus on environmental issues. In Scotland and Germany, the focus will be on cooking together through the means of local and sustainable products. Our outcomes will be a cooking contest, digital stories, a recipe book (“The How to save the Earth Cookbook”), website and newsletters to disseminate our results among the students involved, but also to the broader school and the local town. Our participants will all be 15-18 years old, but we want to address the entire school population and as such reach an audience in between 8 and 18 year old. We aim to change the life habits of all participants and schools involved and as thus aim at a more sustainable lifestyle that will benefit a healthy and creative working environment.
We addressed issues and challenges the 21st century will have to face when it comes to matters of ecology, overpopulation, conflicts between countries, personal relationships, social media and education in a digitalised world. We put focus on the European added value and really stepped in and took matters in hands. We researched the topics at hand so we could in a second stadium really step into action and produced some very concrete outcomes (in the third and last stage). In the first step we addressed climate change (like desertification, flooding, water shortage, extreme weather, food production, diseases, the environment) and put the focus on sustainability (in the domains of migration, resources, green energy, transport, new technologies, sustainable tourism). Our key focus lay in food and food production (up- and recycling, GM foods), the human impact on the planet (responsibility, population, overconsumption, pollution, waste management, food waste) and the relationships between humans as such (mental and physical health, media, distribution of wealth, conflicts, (inter)national organisations, digitalisation and job loss). Our second step was to take matters in our own hands and provide the students with some hand-on experiences. Here the key focus of every partner school has proven to be of the utmost importance: we experienced water and waste management in a large city like Budapest, along with the issues tourism (in e.g.the flooding around the Danube) brings. In Estonia we visited entrepreneurial companies and universities to work with us on the topic of digitalisation and social media in education and in Belgium we brought experts in to help us with these issues and with the concept of promoting a healthy working and studying environment that is set for the 21st century. We furthermore optimised our school sustainability by measuring school waste, water, electricity… consumption. The German school had their focus on environmental issues. In Scotland and Germany, the focus also was on cooking together through the means of local and sustainable products. Our outcomes were a cooking contest, digital stories, a recipe book (“The How to save the Earth Cookbook”), our project website and newsletters to disseminate our results among the students involved, but also to the broader school and the local town. Our participants were all 15-18 years old, but we also addressed the entire school community and as such reached an audience in between 8 and 18 year old as well as several members of staff. We claim to have been quite successful to change the life habits of all participants and schools involved and as thus created a more sustainable lifestyle that will benefit a healthy and creative working environment in the future.