The project has revolved around three main objectives: to raise students' awareness of the impact that their daily lives have on the environment, to reflect on the students' consumption habits and the impact they have on their immediate environment and on society in general, and to promote the exchange of experiences, communication between different contexts and different languages and establish links between teenagers from different contexts with the ultimate aim of promoting integration and knowledge of the different cultures that make up the European reality. Throughout the mobilities, we wanted the students to come into contact with students from a different context, to get to know their consumer habits, their leisure and free time practices, and the basic lines of their daily way of life. From this knowledge, the students would be able to establish a comparison between the two livelihoods, assessing the impact these daily practices have on the environment. It was also one of the basic objectives for the students to come into contact with a culture very different from their own in order to understand and broaden their vision of European multiculturalism.
The Change your mind in climate change project responds to one of the basic needs detected in our school environment: to make students aware of the impact that their daily lives have on the environment and to develop strategies to reduce their ecological footprint. The activity was initially conceived to carry out an exchange mobility with Bonaventura College in Leiden, but for reasons beyond our organisation's control, the Dutch school decided to cancel its mobilities. For this reason, a new alliance was sought with the College Jeanne d'Arc de Cholet, with which two student mobilities have been carried out instead of the one initially proposed. The activities and objectives have had to be adapted to this new context, so that the final achievements, although very positive, have differed from those originally proposed in the project. In this new context, two mobilities of 21 and 25 students have been carried out, substantially increasing the number of exchanges initially planned. In addition, French has been added as a second language of the project, something that was not originally envisaged, which has generated a greater impact, both linguistically and culturally, on the participating students.