Communication

We are four schools that last school year 2016-2017 have participated together in the eTwinning Projects "Be sustainable! Secure your future!". After this experience we decided to start the Erasmus+ Project "Agenda2030: That's our challenge!".

We will use eTwinning in order to offer our students a place where they can organize their work, communicate and collaborate together on the project before and after the mobility events and where they can present their work to all our target audiences (peers, general public, decision-makers at local and national level, press and media and other organisations leading the same goals).

Final evaluation of the project by the student Martina Armeli at the Seminar "FOOD AND HEALTH, A SIGHT TO THE PAST FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE" on the 11th April 2019

The participation to the activities of the Erasmus + “Agenda 2030: that’s our challenge” was for all of us a beautiful experience from which we learned a lot. Both students and teachers, have become more sensitive to the themes of the various objectives of the ONU Agenda which aims at the sustainable development of the planet by the year 2030.

We have become aware of the importance of environmental sustainability, of the respect for our planet, and also for our health. And we have rached thus awareness by comparing our ideas inside the school and with the students of the partner Schools of Greece, Germany and Spain with whom we have shared many activities during the various mobilities carried out in these two years, with a view to active and European citizenship.

We have learned that our planet is in a serious state and that something must be done to get things back on track, trying in every way to limit the damage which, as we all know, is likely to become irreversible. Throwing the paper in the bin rather than on the ground, carefully collecting it separately, saving electricity, eating healthy foods such as fresh fruits and vegetables also to avoid plastic packaging that pollutes and is harmful to our health, these are gestures that must become a daily custom for us since we have become aware of them.

Very exciting the laboratory activities carried out in the field of agri-food: about packaging, with Prof. Verde we made an intetesting laboratory on food packaging, and the reuse of food waste that I practice in my own home. Other engaging experiences were related to the preparation and artisanal packaging of the colored salt and flavored with blueberries and other organic spices, with the teacher

Our awareness has grown thanks to the many seminars organized together with teachers, the many meetings with specialists or with institutions. I personally remember that in Ioannina, Greece, we visited a water packaging and bottling industry, observing the whole water process, from when water is taken to where it is bottled and shipped to supermarkets.

Bono and Maddalena, which we made in the pastry workshop; and the workshop where we prepared limoncello with organic lemons and biscuits made according to an ancient recipe of Agira, with the teachers Fiorenza and Parlato. With the teacher Pampallona has been realized a work of comparison between the alimentary pyramid and the environmental pyramid and in these days the activity of realization of a three-dimensional model of the two towers of Milan called “Vertical Forest”, which symbolically represent the need to respect the environment that surrounds us and to live in harmony with it.

In the white art laboratory of our School we got to know the flour of the ancient grains such as the wheat flour Tumminia and Russello that we used for the preparation and baking of bread, with the teacher Galati, which was followed by a very interesting experience, that of the sensory analysis of this food, made with Silvia Turco, “producer and custodian of ancient grains”. From this experience we have learned to understand the differences and the analogies of the organoleptic characteristics, to understand that they contain fibers and cellulose excellent for our organism and for this reason they must be safeguarded and recovered.

Linked to grains was also the visit to the agro-food company of dittaino, “Valle del Grano” where we have had the opportunity to see the processing of wheat and its transformation into pasta of different sizes and with different packaging and brands.

Some activities let us know the water cycle: during the guided tour to the water treatment plant of the city of Enna, the technicians of Acqua Enna SCPA showed us the ancient cisterns dug in the rock under the Castle of Lombardia, and the water purification plant explaining all the phases of the process. This visit was prepared at school during a seminar held by the teacher Pampallona.

To better understand biodiversity, fundamental was the visit to the Special Nature Reserve of Lake Pergusa where, thanks to the valuable guide of Dr Rosa Termine, We have had the opportunity to observe various species of local flora and fauna at risk of extinction that have found their natural habitat there.

In the name of biodiversity was also the visit of the great oceanographic aquarium of Valencia, Spain, where we were wonderfully captured by the different marine species. During all the mobilities abroad, meetings were held in industrial areas and educational visits related to biodiversity, local flora and fauna, as well as outdoor sports activities were done to enrich us by broadening our knowledge and skills

To conclude, I would like to thank the coordinator of the project, teacher Maddalena, and all the teachers who have assisted us during this project that has been such an important journey for our lives. Finally, the whole group would like to express its special thanks to our headmistress for the willingness and interest with which she has motivated us in all our work.

Martina Armeli