The project “If you were a MEP(Member of the European Parliament), what would you do for environmental health? is offered to 14 French pupils aged 14 to 16 from Saint-Stanislas High School in Nantes and to 14 Romanian pupils aged 15 to 18 from Mihai Eminescu High School in Cluj-Napoca. It will last 12 months, between September 2020 and August 2021. This project meets several needs of European companies both structurally and temporarily. Indeed, it aims to train students to become European citizens and strengthen the European community identity. Also, at the time of climate change, this project gives each participant the opportunity to understand the challenges to overcome in order to improve environmental health, in particular on a European scale. This project aims to promote participation in European democratic life, intercultural dialogue. It promotes education for sustainable development by raising awareness and placing participants as an awareness player in the field of environmental health. It encourages collaboration on a European scale in order to improve the quality of life of each citizen. In terms of formal learning, it allows students to acquire language skills, communication skills and digital tools as well as skills related to environmental health and the challenges of each territory. To do this, the students will create a NGO and its website fed by articles highlighting the challenges related to environmental health and identifying solutions to overcome them. They will have to set up an exhibition linking written articles, photographs, infographics, video reports as well as organize animations combining serious games, quizzes, debates, DIY workshops in order to educate their peers on environmental health. Finally, they will have the opportunity to participate in the EUROSCOLA project, a work mixing French and Romanian students. In order to collaborate and develop this environmental health awareness project, the participants will use the TWIN SPACE of ETWINNING to communicate, exchange information, write their articles, reflect on their awareness actions, agree on the development of their NGO site. Apart from the different disciplines such as geography, science, languages and history which develop initiatives in connection with the project, one hour per week for each participating group will be devoted to the construction of this project. The students will be divided into working groups mixing French and Romanian students in order to mutually enrich their own skills, their experience and to shed light on the challenges and capacities of each partner country. The two meeting times of the participants, first in Cluj-Napoca then in Nantes will be an opportunity for the students to develop their reflections and cross-check their information on the subject studied. Meeting with political and academic actors as well as members of associations committed to raising awareness of environmental health will be an opportunity to develop their thinking on the solutions to be considered. Finally, the meeting in Nantes will allow the realization of the awareness project by allowing students to organize events with respect to their peers. This project therefore enables each participant to become aware of the various health and environmental challenges to be raised in order to improve their quality of life, and also the need to actively engage at local and European level in developing citizens' awareness to develop practices.
The project “If you were a MEP(Member of the European Parliament), what would you do for environmental health? offered to 14 French pupils aged between 15 and 16 from Saint-Stanislas High School in Nantes and to 15 Romanian pupils aged between 15 and 18 from Mihai Eminescu High School in Cluj-Napoca. It lasted 12 months, between September 2021 and August 2022. This project met several needs of European companies both structurally and temporarily. Indeed, it aimed to train students to become European citizens and strengthen the European community identity. Also, nowadays when climate change is a very important issue, this project gave each participant the opportunity to understand the challenges that need to be overcome in order to improve environmental health, in particular on a European scale. This project aimed to promote participation in European democratic life and in the intercultural dialogue. It promoted education for sustainable development by raising awareness and placing the participants actively in the field of environmental health. It encouraged collaboration on a European scale in order to improve the quality of life of each citizen. In terms of formal learning, it allowed students to acquire language skills, communication skills and digital tools as well as skills related to environmental health and the challenges of each territory. To do this, the students create its website and an Instagram account “Youth voice” fed by articles highlighting the challenges related to environmental health and identified solutions to overcome them. They had to set up an exhibition linking written articles, photographs, infographics, as well as organized animations including a flash mob, an escape game and themed lunch in order to educate their peers on environmental health. Finally, they had the opportunity to participate in the EUROPORTERS competition, but they didn’t win. In order to collaborate and develop this environmental health awareness project, the participants used tools to communicate, exchange information, write their articles, reflect on their awareness actions, agree on the development of the INSTAGRAM account : professional mail, ZOOM, WHATSAPP, INSTAGRAM, PADLET. Apart from the different school subjects such as geography, science, languages and history which developed initiatives in connection with the project, one hour per week for each participating group was devoted to the creation of this project. The students were divided into working groups mixing French and Romanian students in order to mutually enrich their own skills, their experience and to shed light on the challenges and aptitudes of each partner country. The first meeting of the participants was in Nantes in April. It was an opportunity for the students to develop their perspectives and cross-check their information on the subject studied. A group of participants worked on animations and an exhibition and another one developed the Instagram account to share podcasts. The meeting with politicians as well as members of associations committed to raising awareness of environmental health was an opportunity to develop their way of thinking on the solutions that needed to be taken into consideration. A meeting with a member of the municipality of Nantes in charge of the European Union and the Romanian consul was planned, but this was canceled twice due to the scheduling constraints of politicians. The second meeting time had to be done online. It enabled the development of the awareness project by giving students the opportunity to produce their podcasts, develop their two communication materials and organize events for their peers. This project therefore enabled each participant to become aware of the various health and environmental challenges to be raised in order to improve their quality of life, and also the need to actively engage at local and European level in order to develop the citizens' awareness to improve practices.