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"Local Food, Global Change"
"Local Food, Global Change"
Start date: Sep 1, 2014,
End date: Aug 31, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
This multilateral KA2 project entitled "Local Food, Global Change" takes place in the field of secondary education. The general issues our project deals with are sustainable development, healthy lifestyles, agriculture and EU awareness. The main challenge our project will try to take up is to make local, organic and garden food more attractive and modern to "MacDonald's teenagers" who usually think that this type of food is old-fashioned and tasteless. This theme we'll work on is perceptive on the European level but is also relevant on the international level with the UNESCO decision to define 2014 as the International Year of Family Farming. We want to strengthen the link between education and the economic/farming world that is specific to our school areas. We seek to promote the assets of our isolated schools on the international level.
The project has three objectives: 1)the promotion of local and organic food so as to develop a positive image of this type of agriculture which is a sector providing tastier food than cheap imported food or highly processed food but also a sector full of job opportunities and fostering 21st century new eating habits 2) give teenagers the opportunity to behave as European modern citizens and present their culinary and cultural heritages to other European friends by using French and English as foreign languages and documents created thanks to ICT 3)sensitize teenagers about environmental and health issues.
This partnership has been coordinated by the Collège du Carbet in MARTINIQUE (overseas department of FRANCE) and comprises participating schools selected via Etwinning and located in ENGLAND (South Craven Academy), ITALY (Liceo Scientifico "Camillo Golgi"), ROMANIA (Liceul Teoretic "Onisifor Ghibu") and SLOVAKIA (Zakladna Skola). We form a culturally rich and varied partnership that has been active for almost a year and links countries and schools which are distant from one another but united by several common points. All of them stand in the countryside and welcome students between 11 and 15 years old, except for the school in Romania which welcomes students between 15 and 18 years old.
We have planned 2 transnational meetings in Romania and Italy and 3 learning mobilities in England, Slovakia and Martinique where a hundred of participants (students, teachers and headteachers) will visit local food production units, discover other school systems and cultures, and practise foreign languages. Our goal is to open up to the international level, enable students to learn in a non-formal way. We try to raise students'awareness by involving them into concrete educational activities leading to the production of shows, videos, cookbooks, creative writing pieces, educational brochures, Powerpoint presentations and calendars whereby students learn and understand that the habit of eating local food can have a positive impact on the environment, their health and personal developments.
At the local, regional and national levels, the dissemination of our project's programme, activities and outputs will be carried out via our schools' and Local Education Authorities' websites, notices, posters and meetings with staff and parents inside our schools. We'll also resort to the use of local press, TV and radio channels. On the European and international levels, we'll communicate and disseminate about our project thanks to the Etwinning, European Commission and Edmodo platforms.
Students will greatly benefit from our project and form a better opinion on local/organic food and will promote it. They 'll understand the links between local food and sustainable development and health. They will have discovered a wide range of professions that might have an influence on their careers' plans. They will be more familiar with ICT and modern languages, especially French and English. They will also be able to define themselves as European citizens while remaining proud of their national heritages. The school staff will develop new skills, give more sense to their professional experiences and work with more motivated students. The project will be included in the partner schools' history, biology, geography and modern languages curricula. The recognition and validation of these learning outcomes will be materialized by the creation of own European Language Portfolios and the edition of Youthpass certificates. All our project's outputs can be used and witnessed inside the partner schools in the future, after the project's period, but also outside the schools, for most of them, by other teachers, representatives of our Local Education Authorities and Local Councils or members from the civil society, such as parents, associations and business managers.