About project

Strategic Partnership KA229 “European Scholar Congress on Environmental Issues” (ESCEI)

The environment is a living system and it represents a didactic educational field that offers unlimited possibilities for approaching and training proposals. The environment around our home, the neighbourhood we live in, all represent the space where we spend most of our time. Everyone can do something, in a personal way, to improve our living environment.

School can have an important role. The opening of the school to the territory, a key element of the transition from a centralized school to one inserted in its own local reality, is, in fact, specific ground for environmental education and can launch projects that allow us to get to know our own territory, establishing with it a sense of belonging.

“European Scholar Congress on Environmental Issues” is a transnational project in which we, the  partners, can  share our experience among us, we can learn a lot from each other, improving our local projects, putting them together and creating a big one as a result of our cooperation. As we have said, environment is a global problem, and all together we would be able to do more for our environment than alone.

The objectives of the project are:

-        to improve both students and teachers’ foreign language competences: the only way of communication among students and teachers will be English;

-        to improve students mathematics competences: students will have to analyse data and create graphics; the goal is to make them competent to receive information and analyse it in order to come to their own conclusions;

-        improve students and teachers’ communication skills: communication is vital in the current digital era, we expect to improve oral and  written communication skills by participation in videos, lectures, reports contained along the activities planned in this Project;

-        study science in context: if you can touch it, experiment it, use it, then, you can learn it in an easy way. This project must allow partners to elaborate practical lessons to teach science to the students;

-        consolidate PBL methodology at school: knowledge is important, but most important is knowing what to do with it. So PBL allows teachers to work together designing multidisciplinary projects where every subject contributes to a higher knowledge (innovation). This project has to contribute to create at least a new PBL project on each partner school;

-        get collaborative work environment where every student has an expert role because all of us we are good in some field so, all us have an important job to deliver to the team (social inclusion and open education).

Pupils taking part mainly in this project will be aged 12-14. They will be accompanied in this challenge by teachers experts on science, maths, technology, English, language, music, arts&crafts and social science.

ESCEI (European Scholar Congress on Environmental Issues) is a Project created to exchange good environmental practices among different countries, giving consciousness about this global issues (it is not a local problem but a global one) and making students primary actors about the transformations our schools need to be better bioclimatic work spaces throughout their improvement proposals.

Environment is our home and it is our responsibility to take care and  act in order  to contribute to its conservation.

« Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much. » -Helen Keller

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