Project Information

1.  Project

Comenius School Partnerships are bi- and multilateral cooperation between schools in different European countries, focussing on common interests of the participating schools and helping them to work on a common project.

2. Partners

AOC de Groene Welle. Zwolle. The Netherlands

I.E.S. Pérez de Ayala. Oviedo. Spain

Brookfield Community School and Language College. Sarisbury Green. Southampton. UK

Alfred-Delp-Realschule. Niederkassel. Germany

3. Description of the project.

This topic “Thinking or acting green” implies the idea of enlightening the students’ attitude towards the ecological awareness. Students will be enabled to reconsider their own attitudes and behaviour towards the environmental actions taken in school, homes, local communities and the whole world. Concerns about immediate surroundings (here ‘school’) but also local responsibilities towards nature and environment will be established by different projects. Our aim is to develop an international network, which expands over the time range given, to establish an endurable connection between young people in Europe. The life-long learning connected to the European thought will be improved by this project work. We would also like to involve the schools of the former Comenius project in which the German partner has been involved. In consequences, the comparison with other students in their countries should set the new impulse on the thought “we live in one world”. The recognition of the similar problems or tasks on demand may help to develop new connections and friendships among young European students. This will improve their understanding of the responsibilities as global citizens.

4. Objectives

We want to establish a base of understanding and tolerance among European students, so that in future we can set up competitions like sport events or cultural activities. In this project we want to make students more aware of their eco-behaviour i.e. travelling to and from school and the mobility around the world. This awareness can be reached by comparing their experience to other European students.

This can be reached by:

–           developing a questionnaire and evaluating it

–           making statistics charts

–           developing rules and hints on “how to act…” (e.g. brochure)

–           doing community projects

–           producing art works on the selected eco-topics

5. Work programme.

Approx. starting date	Activity/mobility description	Destination country (for mobility only)	Which partners involved
09/09	1st meeting: How to start the project? Presentation of the partner schools and local area by students	NL	NL, UK, DE, ES = (all partners)
09-11/09	How do we get to school? Preparing questionnaires and analysis	n/a	All partners
11-12/09	2nd meeting; presentation of the students’ work	UK	All partners
01-02/10	Carbon footprint of your family (water + electricity); How much do we use a week?	n/a	All partners
03/10	3rd meeting; presentation of the students’ work (personal diaries comparison between countries)	DE	All partners
03-04/10	Where does our energy come from? Cooperation with local providers (utilities bills)	n/a	All partners
06/10	4th meeting; presentation of students’ work, evaluation of the 1st year; How to go on?	ES	All partners
09/10	5th meeting; preparation of teachers’ exchange (2 weeks)	NL	All partners
11-12/10	Teachers’ exchange and the 6th meeting in UK, evaluation of teachers’ exchange		All partners
01-02/11	Preparation of leaflets on how to reduce our carbon footprint for teenagers	UK	All partners
03/11	7th meeting, presentation of students’ leaflets, exhibition/ exposure, invitations of local schools to disseminate project results, afterwards these leaflets will be disseminated to schools in local areas of the partner schools	DE	All partners
06/11	8th meeting; conclusion of the project, evaluation, How to continue with this partnerships without the EU funding? Invite previous Comenius partners and consider the possibility of another project	ES	All partners