"TILT" is a French term for "Ring a bell". Our project, entitled T.I.L.T (Together Investigate and Learn, to Tackle climate issues), is a call for increase education for Sustainable Development that empowers people to change the way they think and work towards a sustainable future. The project also aims to raise students' science literacy , which enable each citizen to have a better understanding of the current climate change and thus become a responsible consumer. In the background of the project, there are the whole importance of enhancing intercultural links, European citizenship, and English skills as it will be the work language. The project involves directly around eighty students aged between 15 and 18 years old, spread over four South European schools: in France, Greece, Italy, Spain. Every partner school needs to strengthen their Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) inside their curriculum, but also to develop intercultural contacts. The Erasmus program offers them the opportunity to set up European school exchanges that is the base of the ESD strategy: act locally and think globally. Individuals will be encouraged to be responsible actors who resolve local challenges, but the project will also provide a wider awareness of climate issues that considers cultural diversity and contribute to create a more sustainable world. All along this project, students will investigate and learn about each others’context, in the main fields of Resources (water and energy), biodiversity and green building. The project uses blended learning strategy based on ICT tools and collaborative work : solving problem, peer to peer learning, reporting on-site investigation, science hands-on activities. Helped by local experts, they will raise their awareness about climate issues and they will raise their science level of knowledge. At each step, the purpose of the project is to act and disseminate knowledge and good practises, which means setting up events: 1/ Actions in the long run to experience eco-friendly habits in everyday life. Students will carry out surveys about domestic water and energy uses and they will provide feedback to the participants. They will be involved in local actions in the partner's territory: cleaning site, tree planting. They will use their knowledge about biodiversity to propose to the local population to help biodiversity in their garden. 2/ Actions in order to make their school more greener: they will establish a carbon footprint and deliver proposals to improve the school sustainability, establish renewable sensibilization events (water world day, erasmus+day), and implement achievements like an Eco mobile phone charging station (using your biking energy). Finally, the target audience will go far beyond the school community, iincluding also family and relatives, as well as local citizens, conservation organizations they worked with. It represents thousands of people. Students will also produce a final exhibition with this material, available to schools and cities' houses of each town involved. Throughout the project, a press kit will be updated and available to media, to promote ongoing work to the local population. All the the results and deliverables of the T.I.L.T project will be in the public domain and will be released on the eTwinning and schools websites. The results will be a base for each school to become more sustainable, and a source of inspiration for teachers community leaders and citizens.
"TILT" is a French term for "Ring a bell". Our project, entitled T.I.L.T (Together Investigate and Learn, to Tackle climate issues), was a call to increase education for Sustainable Development that empowers people to change the way they think and work towards a sustainable future. The project also aimed at raising students' science literacy , which will enable each citizen to have a better understanding of the current climate change and thus become a responsible consumer. In the background of the project, was the whole importance of enhancing intercultural links, European citizenship, and English skills as it was be the work language. The project was impacted by the covid crisis, and lasted 3 years, instead of two initially. The project involved directly around eighty students aged between 15 and 18 years old, spread over four Southern European schools: in France, Greece, Italy, Spain. Every partner school needed to strengthen their Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) inside their curriculum, but also to develop intercultural contacts. The Erasmus program offered them the opportunity to set up European school exchanges that is the basis of the ESD strategy: act locally and think globally. Individuals have been encouraged to be responsible actors who can solve local challenges, but the project also provided a wider awareness of climate issues that considered cultural diversity and will contribute to create a more sustainable world. All along this project, students investigated and learned about each others’context, in the main fields of Resources (water and energy), biodiversity and green building. The project used blended learning strategy based on ICT tools and collaborative work : solving problems, peer to peer learning, reporting on-site investigation, science hands-on activities. Helped by local experts, they raised their awareness about climate issues and they raised their science level of knowledge. At each step, the purpose of the project was to act and disseminate knowledge and good practises, which meant setting up events: 1/ Actions in the long run to experience eco-friendly habits in everyday life. Students carried out surveys and articles about domestic water and energy uses and they provided feedback to the participants during the international meetings. They used their knowledge about biodiversity to propose to the local population to help biodiversity in their garden. 2/ Actions in order to make their school greener: they established a carbon footprint and delivered proposals to improve their school sustainability, establish renewable sensibilization events monitored by experts ( " soil cycle of life"; "birds preservation", "women in science for a better future", natural park and ecosystems). They also imagined an eco-building specially designed for a Southern country. The models were displayed during the last meeting in Creta. Students also produced a final exhibition with this material, available to the schools or cities library of each town involved. Finally, the target audience went far beyond their school community, including also family and relatives, as well as local citizens, conservation organizations they worked with. It represented having an impact on hundreds of people. Throughout the project, a press kit (on schools' websites) has been made available to the media, to promote the ongoing work to the local population. All the results and deliverables of the T.I.L.T project have been delivered in the public domain and have been released on the schools'websites. The results will be a basis for each school to become more sustainable, and a source of inspiration for teachers, community leaders and citizens. In particular, this three years project encouraged French and Greek schools to develop a European long term strategy in their schools. As a result, they will both apply for a school accreditation in 2023. Spain obtained the accreditation in the meantime.