Creating Eco-Friendly Citizens

Germany

Abtei-Gymnasium Brauweiler

Pulheim

Germany

Abtei-Gymnasium Brauweiler is an academic high school situated near Cologne in the North-Rhine Westphalia in Germany. 1300 students are taught by about 100 teachers. The school specializes in conducting culture-based classes introducing extra topics focusing on theatre, music, the art of media, intercultural communication and the skill of presentation making.

In Abtei-Gymnasium we promote a healthy lifestyle by offering a wide range of activities (e.g. football, handball, dance, climbing, athletics, tennis and many more). In order to ensure the integrity of the school’s community there is also a students’-run first aid service (started in 2005). Students from the year 9 can complete a first aid course and gain the qualifications of a paramedic.

Our school has pledged to keep an eye on sustainability in a program called “school of the future”. In that context teachers have taken part in workshops on a regular basis and are constantly looking for ways to improve sustainability in many areas of school life. One recent success has been the reduction of waste in the school canteen by using reusable containers and less plastic. Our “one world” team of students sells fair trade products once a week and encourages everyone to think about where our products come from and who produces them. However, we are just beginning to make our school fully sustainable and there is still a lot to be done.

Our school is cooperating with different international organisations and institutions as

· German-Polish Youth Office DPJW

· UNICEF Verona

· Educational institution Krzyzowa

· LVR-Archive Brauweiler

· Institut français Cologne

· English Institute Cologne

Italy

Istituto Comprensivo Monte Rosello Basso

Sassari

Italy

Sassari, our city is the second largest city in Sardinia, it is a municipality of about 130,000 inhabitants, it is located in the north western part of Sardinia, a big Italian island on the Mediterranean sea.

The name of our school is Istituto Comprensivo Monte Rosello Basso (ICMRB), it is a public school. Our school Monte Rosello takes the name of a fountain which is actually considered to be the symbol of the city. Our school is located on the outskirts of the town, in a disadvantaged area. The school has 855 students, 107 teachers and 24 staff members. It offers pre-school, primary and low high education to boys and girls between the age of 3 -14.

The leading objectives of our school are:

Promote Active Citizenship: united in our uniqueness and diversity by teaching respect and learn about each other, understand, support and value each other for the better

Healthy and Active Lifestyle

Sport and Inclusion

Respect and Protection of the Environment

Volunteering Education

Conservation of our Cultural Heritage

Music, Theatre & ITC

Our school has coordinated an Erasmus+KA219, AWARDED BY THE LABEL OF GOOD PRACTICE EXAMPLE, a Comenius Project and it's currently a partner of four KA219 Erasmus+.

Our school collaborates with families, local community, regional institutions and ONG to provide knowledge and competences to the success of all the students of our school.

Norway

Rakkestad ungdomsskole

Rakkestad

Rakkestad is a municipality located in the South-Eastern part of Norway, with approximately 8000 inhabitants. Norway`s longest river, Glomma, runs through Rakkestad. Agriculture is and always has been very important for the municipality.

Rakkestad ungdomsskole has about 300 hundred students ranging between the ages of 13-16. The vision of and aim of the school is that cooperation and well-being in a living and inventive environment will nurture growth.

The school is focusing on:

· Entrepreneurship

· ICT as a working tool

· Pupil participation / well-being / living conditions

· Work that creates an attitude against bullying, violence and drug addiction

· The Project School (an alternative learning arena for students who are struggling in a normal classroom. More practical work and adapted teaching)

· After this project I hope they will add eco-friendly

The school is also cooperating with different institutions and organisations outside the school in a variety of ways. Being the only middle school in the municipality gives all the inhabitants a relation to the school and community and this gives us a lot of opportunities to cooperate with other partners in the local community.

Spain

IES Andreu Alfaro

Paiporta

Our school offers compulsory education levels (ESO) ages from 12 to 16, and A-level studies (Bachillerato) for students from 16 to 18. Our school was established in 2010. We have magnificent facilities to suit a wide range of educational activities, and it is technologically full equipped in order to achieve an advanced usage of I C T in learning and teaching.

We have got 900 students and 90 teachers. Our students’ family cultural and socio-economic level is medium, with a very low percentage of foreign students, mostly from a Moroccan, Spanish American, Chinese and East European origin.

Our school is located in Paiporta, a peripheral town close to Valencia big city. It is surrounded by orchards with a still in use irrigation system which dates back to the Arab domination times, and which is endangered by the big city urbanisation pressure. Nowadays, Paiporta farmers are still using «acequias», an irrigation system created and developed by the Arabs in the Middle Ages, as well as their ancient irrigation organising and controlling system, «Tribunal de las aguas».

Ours is a cropping system which provides our population with an ecological, sustainable and proximity- trade food production. It is also endangered because it is not being continued by the new generations. Our students have an easy reach to the orchards crops, as for many of them farming is a family job. It is a natural and cultural benefit we are to look after and we need and want our students to understand its importance.

Our school is ready to enroll in any projects regarding our surroundings and environment care. Paiporta is located close to a ravine, which is a natural spot itself. There is a local non-profit organization devoted to its preservation.

Our Science and Technology departments take part in several sheared programs and our students attend several lecturesOur management team, as well as our Science and Technology, History and Geography and Foreign Languages departments are ready to participate in international educational projects.

Portugal

Escola Básica e Secundária Dr. Ângelo Augusto da Silva

Funchal

Madeira is an island that belongs to Portugal, with more than 500 years of history, located in the Atlantic Ocean, on the African plate, 978 km south of mainland Portugal, approximately 33 degrees north latitude, approximately 700 km west of the African coast, and 450 km north of the Canaries, and it has a total area of ​​796 km2.

Funchal is a city located in Madeira, founded in 1510, and offers a very engaging and charming historical context, dominated by a powerful landscape between the sea and the majestic mountains. The city coincides with its municipality, and has 76.15 km² of area and 111 892 inhabitants (census of 2011).

The school, Escola Básica e Secundária Dr Ângelo Augusto da Silva, is a public secondary school of general education situated at Funchal, has elementary and secondary levels. There are 210 teachers, 67 members of the staff, and 1350 students (from age 10 to 18). The ultra-peripheral location of the school provides a number of difficulties related to their geographical features. The school offers regular education from 5th to 12th year, Vocational Education and Courses of Education and Training, Structured Teaching units for students with Autism Spectrum Disorder and includes students with other special educational needs in their classes. Almost all of the students are full-time but those with a specific curriculum designed according to their needs are part-time. We have a group of foreign students (Portuguese Non Maternal Language) who receive an special support from Portuguese teachers. The school has developed measures to fight school failure and early school leaving. The school also offers an important cultural life: photography, ICT, foreign languages, arts, sports, among others.

With the participation in this project, our school hopes that the exchange of professional experiences between teachers and students of different educational systems will improve the educational practices, raise awareness on environmental problems and educate to eco-friendly citizenship, with a long-term effect in all the involved.

Turkey

MARESAL MUSTAFA KEMAL ORTAOKULU IHSANIYE MAHALLESI SULTAN CEM SELCUKLU

Konya is a big city located in the CentralAnatolia Region, with 2,206,000 people. The city is the one with the largest land area in Turkiye and fort hat reason the city is known as the grain reservoir or Turkiye

Our school has been located in the city center, Selçuklu, Konya with about 2000 students and 160 teachers. (Also there are 600 refugee students from different

places (Syria, Somali,Iraq,Iran…etc)

We support our students in sports and art. Our students come from different areas

around the city and from various social groups and therefore their motivation for learning is also

different.

Educational quality is certificated by ISOO9001. Also there has been lots of national

and international projects at school such as Democracy project bound to European Commission and

Ministry of Education. We have 'White Flag' and 'Blue Flag' in those projects.

Not only the results of national high school entrance exam but also our success in sports

and other social areas reiterate our school’s position as one of Konya’s leading schools.

We work with students with different socio-economic levels. Our students come from various social groups and therefore their motivation

for learning is also different.

We use: modern Technologies, science labs, art and technology classes we work to grow our students as peaceful, anti-racist, democratic, eco-friendly aim to improve their confidence and abilities in the learning process.

We think that this European cooperation will create peaceful and respectful atmosphere

among students.

They will have the opportunity to express and have the power to come over the

common adolescent problems among their peer across Europe. Also we want our students to gain

more awareness towards the consciousness of being an eco-friendly citizien through the help of this Project.