"GO GREEN WITH SMART IT" is a project where five secondary vocational schools have come together to find a new insight into teaching and learning while keeping in mind global environmental factors. The Project supports environmental and climate-change prevention actions taken on European level using innovative practices, methods and tools for teaching, training and learning, the reason why for this project we have adapted the SDGs. The participants will be ICT students and there will be a total of five Learning, Teaching and Training Activities during the 24 month project starting in September 2020. This Project aims at developing competences in various sustainability-relevant sectors, developing or learning about existing green sectorial skills strategies and methodologies. The future-oriented attitude and the change-driven mindset would better meet the needs of individuals who will be working in the industry and serving customers in the future. To achieve this, the participants will be given the opportunity to develop new skills, learn and share existing knowledge, experiment and test innovative solutions in forms of workshops and mini-projects. In this Project the main target group is the young students studying in professional fields. The future of the industry, humanity and the entire world is in the hands of our young learners. The choices they make tomorrow will be based on the knowledge and experience they are given today. The participants are skilled students in the fields of electrical, electronics, automation and ICT. Learning the profession is one thing, but the responsibility for sustainable application is another. By giving students the opportunity to put their knowledge and skills into application in an international context - in addition to the newly acquired knowledge and experience - we guarantee the students will strengthen their competences in their professional fields leading to success and better opportunities in life. Based on experience gathered from the previous Erasmus+ KA219 2017-1-FR01-KA219-037426 titled 3D ROBO CHALLENGE, the new partnership will organise six LLT Activities where each will focus on the teamwork development, communication and intercultural skills, while benefiting from the digital skills of the participants and putting them in practice. Every mixed team will work on mini-projects to build a system which develop technical skills with electronic boards in order to reach environmental objectives from the SDGs . The technical skills that students need to perform the mini-projects will be taught in each school before the meeting thanks to common online lessons created by IT teachers through the learning platform Moodle integrated in the Twinspace. Online meetings will then give the opportunity to the participants to communicate with each other before the face-to-face activities. All the mini-projects will develop skills written in the IT programme of each school, training students for their final exam. Teachers from the 5 countries will then be able to plan and organize activities throughout the project in this space. This Twinspace will also be the place where students can communicate and exchange in a secure space. Every school has the freedom to choose the group that will take part in the activities . It is agreed that the students would be aged 15 to 18 and would have some I. T skills. There are a few common criteria every school agrees to take into consideration while choosing participating students. In most vocational schools around Europe, many students with academic difficulties or with delicate family situations will find in the achievement of mini-projects an enhancement of their skills. It is then really important to give the opportunity to these students to take part in this project. As it will be probably one of the first mobility experience abroad, these students will be accompanied in the administrative actions to fill the forms. The students from each country can also prepare a « To Do List » which can develop, for example, the 10 top things to visit or try in their country, in their culture.
The « Go Green With Smart IT » project mainly aimed to develop a strong relationship between the five partners Lycée polyvalent Louis de Cormontaigne, Metz (FR), Riveria School, Joensuu (FI), Institut Esteve Terradas i Illa, Barcelona (ES), Agrupamento de Escolas Emídio Navarr, Almamda (P) and Vocational School of Computer programming and Innovation, Burgas (B) while encouraging students to meet the challenges of teamwork, improve their English language skills, learn new practices in the field of renewable energy. In total, nearly 170 students took part in the « Go Green With Smart IT » activities as a host or guest. The number of teachers and management staff who took part in the project at different levels of involvement is around 50. During the learning activities, groups of students traveled to partner countries and actively participated in small group activities (6 to 8 students). Nationalities were mixed in the groups in order to promote communication in English. The meetings always started with ice breaking activities at the beginning of the week (such as an escape game) which allowed the students to get to know each other and to start communicating in English. The groups worked on mini-projects that made it possible to implement 3D printing, the assembly of small robots, the creation of smart IT device such as a phone solar charger or an hydroelectric power station, programming their functions using electronic boards like Arduino. The students documented their activities on the websites of the partner schools. Students were able to participate in various group activities to deepen their knowledge of partner countries and cultures, as well as school and studies. They were able to make strong contacts thanks to this way of working in small groups. The impact of the Covid-19 crisis has forced us to ask for a year's extension to organise our mobilities. The project was extended from 24 to 36 months The project was broken down into - 1 transnational project meetings (C1) at the very beginning of the project to organise the students mobilities. - 5 learning activities (C2 to C6) in Metz, Barcelona, Burgas, Joensuu and the final one in Almada. The objectives we set for ourselves at the start of the program have been achieved. The proposed activities allowed the students to gain self-confidence at the linguistic and professional level. They have enabled them to develop skills that they can reinvest in their studies and professional life. The students also learned a lot by being in contact with different European cultures.