CONTEXT/BACKGROUND The “Eco-friendly schools for a greener Europe : engaging our pupils to protect the planet (2020-2022)” project brings together two schools from Poland and France around three priorities of the Erasmus+ program : “Environmental and climate goals” ; “Supporting individuals in acquiring and developing basic skills and key competences” ; “Increasing the levels of achievement and interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics”. The main aim of the project is to think collectively about ways to engage our pupils and our schools to respect and protect the planet. Confronting practices, developing creative/innovative/alternative approaches, analyzing successes and failures should contribute to environmental education, a European intercultural approach and a common European citizenship. The E3P20/22 project should be funded to finance both its management and implementation and secondly two Learning, Teaching,Training Activities respectively organised in each school. OBJECTIVES Pupils and teachers involved will follow three main goals : improving schools environment, engaging pupils to academic success, strengthening a European eco-citizenship. It expects individual and collective results for the pupils and for the two schools definitively engaged in an eco-friendly process. This global result should be achieved by working on during and between each Learning/Teaching/Training Activity and making several collective products (studies and publications on water quality, waste recycling, citizen actions…). ETWINNING The already created Twinspace will be the main online space to share materials and to work in collaborative activities. It will include tools devoted to online teaching,learning and training during/between Learning/Teaching/Training Activities. It will also be used for students and adults Learning/Teaching/Training Activities assessments. Finally the KA2 Twinspace will allow follow-up and dissemination with products diffusion and information. NUMBER AND PROFILES OF PARTICIPANTS The project provides that participants will be teachers/non-teaching staff members and pupils from thirteen to fifteen years old from our two respective schools. Schools gather nearly 1,600 pupils and 150 teachers/non-teaching staff members who will be impacted by the project thanks to a dissemination plan. More than 60 students and nearly 20 teachers/non-teaching staff members will be involved directly participating in project educational activities. Among them 28 students and 7 teachers/non-teaching staff members will travel and discover a new European country during each of the two Learning/Teaching/Training activities and/or during the project management meetings. Traveling participants will be chosen in each school through a committee including teachers and administrative staff. The KA2 project aims to involve students of all abilities : beyond their academic achievements, pupils need to manifest interest on improving their skills, to have an excellent behavior and of course to to be interested in environmental issues. ACTIVITIES Each school will organize a six-day exchange of groups of pupils with partners' delegations of fourteen pupils and three or four adults : C1 Poland (April 2021) and C2 France (April 2022). METHODOLOGY The Project Group functions as the coordinating group and is composed of teachers and administrative staff from the two schools. The school partners will be organized in school teams. Two Project Management meetings are planned, at the beginning and at the end of the project. FOLLOW-UP Assessments, questionnaires and evaluation of educational activities will allow to report on long-lasting effects with lifelong learning skills, European eco-citizenship and schools environment. Our dissemination plan is built in two dimensions (horizontal with all activities to strengthen communication and dissemination between participants ; vertical with all activities designed to actually reach the target groups, stakeholders and final users) and will use two types of media (traditional media and media created specifically for the project like Erasmus corners in each school, an eTwinning Twinspace, a Facebook page and an Instagram page).
CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVES : 2 institutions worked on as part of the E3P project. They met on the School Education Gateway platform. The objectives were shared: to improve english proficiency, to work around sustainable development themes, in inter-disciplinarity, and to develop a sense of European belonging. PARTICIPANTS : The 2 schools bring together more than 1500 students and 150 teachers who have been potentially impacted by the project but only 50 students and 30 teachers and non-teachers have been directly involved. The 2 schools having a different sociology, this allowed to bring wealth in the project. ACTIVITIES : The 2 mobilities were at the heart of the project as well as the previous exchanges and following these mobilities. They were finally able to take place but at little interval contrary to the schedule initially planned. They were highlights of the project thanks to the cultural exchanges and the various activities and visits planned over these 2 weeks. They have enabled the completion of certain projects carried out within the partner institutions. METHODOLOGY : A coordination meeting was planned to launch the project but it had to be cancelled because of the health context and replaced by email exchanges and virtual meetings. Each team worked on its own using digital tools and the exchanges were carried out in English which is the only common language between the 2 countries. The teachers, always concerned about interdisciplinary work (English, science, technology, maths,...), wrote the application form. RESULTS : The results we wanted to achieve were an improvement in language skills, namely communication and teaching only in English, but also a better knowledge of sustainable development issues and ways to act at the personal level. It also allowed teachers to exchange their educational practices around science and inter-disciplinarity. IMPACT : As mentioned previously, the impact of the E3P project has been significant and positive, because it has allowed, as wished, to work with innovative means and pedagogical tools. An evaluation through an analysis of the questionnaires drawn up by the teachers also made it possible to measure this impact on the improvement of English proficiency and expected civic behavior, in particular on the waste of resources. LONG TERM BENEFITS : This project confirms and completes the investment of our 2 schools in European openness. It made it possible to further fixed the values addressed within the students and teachers involved in the project but more generally on the audiences of the 2 institutions and the project partners.