Our objectives were : - Establish a reliable carbon footprint for each school. - Raise awareness among management, teachers and, more generally, all the adults in the schools involved. - Raise awareness among the pupils taking part in the project and other pupils in the schools. - Finding solutions for local action. - Study the solutions implemented in different countries and see if they can be exported. - Reduce the impact of our exchanges by using environmentally friendly means of transport. - Increase students' knowledge of Europe, partner countries, etc. - To help students progress in foreign languages, including English.
We wanted to raise awareness among a large number of people about climate change, its causes and effects, and above all to find and implement solutions for local actions within secondary schools. This issue is generally addressed in many courses and in all countries, but on an ad hoc basis. We needed the time and resources to study it in a more comprehensive and continuous way. But we also needed to make it easier to raise public awareness with specific, local datas and to show that the problem is international with local consequences.