Erasmus+: Imagine Today yourE Cit f TEuropean City of Tomorrow

16th November 2016

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MEMBERS COUNTRIES OF THE PROJECT

ASSOCIATIONS INVOLVED IN THE PROJECT

PROJECT PERIODS

• Nine thematic three-month periods These periodsNine thematic three month periods. These periodsenable students to imagine and create together avirtual future city, which will tackle the problematicsof sustainable development—whether environmental,economical, or social ones.

• Based on:-educational cooperation, -interdisciplinary activities,-an exchange of innovative educational methods.

COLLECTIVE REFLECTIONthis collective reflection will address topics such as:

• 1. how to make the most of natural resources,• 2 how to assess the ecological impact of• 2. how to assess the ecological impact of

infrastructures,• 3. how to address social diversity,3. how to address social diversity,• 4. how to address the citizen’s role in such a

European city,p y,• 5. as well as the factors that can improve quality of

life together.

TRANSNATIONAL MEETING. TOPICS TO WORK ON THIS PROJECT

ACADEMIC YEAR 2015/2016

1. ROMANIA:  First transnational meeting. Erasmus Project Opening. Partners Meeting. Action Planning.

2. DENMARK: Topic 1: Architecture and Urbanism. 

3. FRANCE: Topic 2: Living together. 

ACADEMIC YEAR 2016/2017

4. BULGARIA: Second transnational meeting. Action Planning.

TRANSNATIONAL MEETING. TOPICS TO WORK ON THIS PROJECT

• 5 FRANCE: Topic 3: Food and Health• 5. FRANCE: Topic 3: Food and Health

• 6. SPAIN: Topic 3:  Energyp gy

ACADEMIC YEAR 2017/2018/

• 7. SPAIN: Topic 5: Economics and Jobs

• 8. BULGARIA: Topic 6:  Arts and culture

• 9. FRANCE Project Closure

GOALS OF THE PROJECT1. For the students: � Build citizens’ paths in order to:

D l th i iti l i d d th i f l i b ti- Develop their critical mind and their sense of analysis, observationand reflection; - Widen their general knowledge;

Familiari e themsel es ith debate- Familiarize themselves with debate; - Understand the complexity of the world; - Become active and united players, collectively involved in global

problematicsproblematics.

� Build achievement paths by: - Building up knowledge and improving language skills;- Building up knowledge and improving language skills; - Developing their expression and argumentative skills; - Linking up disciplines: giving meaning to learning; - Developing students’ ambitions and building paths towardDeveloping students ambitions and building paths toward Information, course choice, and discovery of the spheres of work and economics.

GOALS OF THE PROJECT2. For the educational teams: • ‐ Tear down the walls between disciplines through a commonTear down the walls between disciplines through a common

goal for study; • ‐ Emphasize innovative practices shared between EuropeanEmphasize innovative practices shared between European

teachers; • ‐ Favor creativity, experiment and project‐oriented thinking; y p p j g• ‐ Improve everyone’s knowledge and competence by sharing

educational “packages;” • ‐ Evolving the current educational methods by putting up 

workshops built and hosted together with participants fromassociations, using methods which place the students at theheart of the educational and intercultural process. 

3. For leadership and professional relationships: • ‐ Develop a common goal and common priorities (share aDevelop a common goal and common priorities (share a 

vision); • ‐ Circulate and promote approaches based on projects,Circulate and promote approaches based on projects, 

partnership and European cooperation. 

4. For the schools: • ‐ Aim at gaining the “innovation laboratory” label and get g g y g

involved in sustainable development; • ‐ Create and strengthen durable partnerships in order to 

obtain an educational added value; • ‐ Improve schools and their public image.

FINAL PRODUCTION• Besides, we have planned to make two brochures by the end of those three years They will gather andthe end of those three years. They will gather and sum up the ideas and methods developed through our collective European project They will be called:our collective European project. They will be called:

• ‐ “We young citizens of tomorrow and our ideas to b ild th f t ”build the future,” 

• ‐ “A guide for a school involved in sustainable development.”

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