We wanted to launch a zone dynamic, with local partners with whom certain highschools were already working as part of the reflection they were carrying out on already existing actions relating to sustainable development. Thanks to this, it was a question of involving both primary and secondary students to make proposals applicable in the different highschools involved, aiming to go further in the process already underway. The aim was to create a beneficial dynamic for all the educational communities of the partner highschools (or schools), to strengthen and develop links with local contexts to do this and to give the desire to other establishments not still committed to joining us. The organization of “mini-cops” by zones should lead to the holding of a COP for the entire zone, in 2025-2026.
We set up this Erasmus+ project from a period of training for sustainable development representatives from establishments dependent on the Agency for French Education Abroad in the North-West Europe and Scandinavia zone. We wanted to benefit from european funds to allow eco-delegates from future high schools to meet, to discover the practices linked to sustainable development objectives in the establishments and their countries of establishment, in order to identify a theme for common reflection. That of the water quickly cleared. The objective was to formalize the reflections during the organization of conferences of the parties in mini-zones of the large geographical area in order to make proposals applicable in situ. A first meeting took place in Brussels in 2023, where the Jean Monnet high school welcomed the eco-delegates from Luxembourg and The Hague, but the funding obtained via the AEFE educational actions did not make it possible to meet on a larger scale, with other establishments.