The 24-month project " Energy Helps Strong Economy " was established in association with Italy (coordinator), Macedonia, Poland, Turkey and Portugal. We have started to see the effects of the destruction that we have done to the world for decades. The amount of cars, the changing demands of the exponentially rising world, the madness of waste, utilization and unaware usage of energy capital making the planet a dangerous place to live. Since electricity requirements increasing every day, fossil fuels exhibit symptoms of accelerated failure. We aspire to raise potential scientists with higher added interest, such as green energy sources, sustainable energy production and usage, share best practices in this area, improve curricula, improve innovative technologies, increase awareness, asking, logical thought, by developing a series of schools in various states in Europe. Our goals are to provide participants with more knowledge, expertise and expertise in the European perspective on sustainable energy sources (solar power, wind power, hydro energy, geothermal power and biofuels) and to build eco-friendly ways of solving the energy crisis; to encourage future consumers to be conscientious citizens and to generate work options in science. Creating implemented best practices in green energies, studying innovative teaching techniques and incorporating them into school curricula; creating big-quality online access tools and expanding them globally through collaboration at European level. The primary population are students between 14 and 18 years of age and educators. The total amount of movement is 100 learners and 40 educators. Major tasks include: meeting collaborators on the eTwinning web platform, project launching day celebrations, conferences, visits to Wind Turbines Park, modeling automobiles utilizing Fusion360 and Arduino, developing wind power roses, Wind Turbine Design Contest, constructing solar stoves, laboratory by scene, Solar Car Race, fingers-on solar cell formation, School meetings, platform for student groups, constructing a photovoltaic and solar household warming network, developing ' Don't Let the Streets Be Frozen with Hydroelectric Power 'Creating apparel including solar cells in the design sector, creating a broad design of sun villages, researching biomass power, laboratory on "Biogas; energy from junk," tracking pellet development and the Oil Fair. Every main individual is accountable for the project planning in their school. The project leader is at the center of the group. Every school must behave according to the working scheme; The predicted outcomes are as follows: students will improve their expertise in listening, reasoning, interviewing, issue solving and creativeness; they will obtain knowledge, abilities, expertise and understanding at European level in the area of clean energy sources; they will aspire to make smart use of energy resources; they will assess their successes in creating ecologically sustainable green technologies so that they will be curious for the energy zone. Participants will develop innovative approaches and strategies through the exchange of knowledge between collaborators, achieve better learning results and bring a foreign aspect to the program as a product of collaboration and alliance. People involved would have the ability to hear about clean technology policies and strategies in various schools. Children will have the ability to engage in the same events and to interact with their European peers; they will acquire more expertise and experience in the area of wind energy. Students ' studies, analytical thought, problem-solving and imaginative skills would improve. Students are involved in sustainability problems, will actively utilize carbon capital in the future and will further recognize the value of green energies. Involved people can improve their personal ability through the flow of shared knowledge and good practices between coworkers. Professors in partnership schools would utilize and improve curricula as open-access green energy tools, the Learning Program for Students and professors of Clean-up Technology and effective practices in their classroom for several years to come. Children will use their talents such as innovation, issue-solving, challenging, analytical thought and understanding of sustainable energy in their future learning or professional life. We will proceed to collaborate with our partners, discuss the findings with them and carry out specific practices. At the completion of the project, our efforts can be posted by the collaborators on the project social media pages. As an effect, the success of the project and its operations would improve the potential of our schools and they will be more recognizable; professors and students would be better prepared at European level.
The project focused on the analysis of partner countries' energy needs, sustainability, and green policies, in order to provide participants with a greater awareness, up-to-date knowledge and experiential skills on the path pointed out by the European Union to reduce waste and pollution and support renewable energies (solar, wind, hydro, geothermal and biofuels). The students were involved in activities of study, analysis of their own territories and knowledge of the energy situations in partner countries, research of solutions and design of prototypes. The teaching methodologies of problem solving, project based learning, enquiry methodology were fostered, starting with engaging and creative introductory moments. Teachers had the opportunity to compare methods and tools and design creative lessons, to take part in online meetings to exchange best practices and share ideas and effective paths in the treatment of energy and environmental issues, capable of motivating students to research and deepen their knowledge. Collaboration during the project with research centres, universities and experts in the energy sector, as well as visits to renewable energy plants and production sites, carried out in all the mobilities, broadened the students' experiential background, added in curriculum high-level scientific-technical elements, fostered the exchange of ideas among the technical subject experts, and motivated all the participants to experiment and design workshop activities. Students were thus stimulated to develop critical thinking on how to deal with the energy crisis and to imagine sustainable solutions to face and solve it. Discussions with researchers and experts in the constantly evolving technologic energy sectors helped to promote careers in science and occupations in these sectors in the countries involved and in the European working area. The school population involved in the project consists of students aged between 14 and 18 years and teachers. The partnership was structured by careful planning of classroom activities, online meetings with experts, preparation meetings and sharing of creative lessons among teachers in preparation for the mobility. Each partner planned activities in own school and collaborated with the others, by discussing topics and by implementing specific practices. The project activities achieved the following objectives 1. for teachers: to acquire knowledge on green energies, green policies and effective teaching methodologies; to improve creative lessons planning and workshop approach skills; to improve the inclusiveness of students with special needs. 2. for students: to improve problem solving skills, to foster motivation to search for eco-sustainable solutions in the energy sector, to increase cooperative and communication skills in the vehicular language; to develop intercultural competences and European awareness. 3. for schools: to design educational paths on the topic of sustainability and European policies, to widen the local network of stakeholders and collaborations with institutions and universities committed to the culture of green energies, to develop orienteering programmes for STEM careers and in the renewable energy technology sector 4. for families: to raise awareness of energy issues, to become more familiar with the school's educational offerings and knowledge of career paths in the energy field. All the LTTAs and several preparatory online meetings for the mobility on the E-twinning platform were held to share the creative lessons made up by the teachers, to interact between the students and to implement the project activities. Specifically, in LTTAs the students for: - 1 "Wind energy": built models and prototypes of wind turbines and visited wind farms; - 2 'Solar energy': developed the solar theme, producing solar heaters, solar trackers and a solar racing car -3 “Hydraulic and solar energies”: carried out a case study/virtual model on making energetically self-sufficient a village of 4000 inhabitants through renewable energies and analysed the historical evolution of a watermill. -4 "Geothermal energy": carried out activities at a CNR research site, surveying with scientific instruments and visiting a hydroelectric power plant - 5 "Biofuels": visited biofuel plants and extracted fuel from waste oil. The project activities achieved important results such as: a different teaching/learning approach in STEM subjects; effective teaching approaches on sustainability, renewable energies and EU energy policies; knowledge of careers in research and the world of work in green energies sector; start of cooperation with universities and research centres; introduction in the school curricula of the energetic and environmental themes. In the long- term, the project and its results will be able to bring out the potential of all the partner schools, of their talented students and more trained teachers, by giving to all the community a wide overview of the European energy policies and opportunities.