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Climate Change and Art

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2020-1-PL01-KA229-082028
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | School Exchange Partnerships Funder Contribution: 146,740 EUR
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Climate Change and Art

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Our project stems from a genuine and deep concern about climate change and its disastrous influence on the economy, politics and above all health and well-being of all Europeans, which is shared by students, their parents and teachers of the partner schools. For the past few months our students have participated in the school climate strike, protested in the streets demanding action from the policy makers or run school projects that expand their knowledge of the problem. Our project offers a broader view on the issue and enables students to explore the climate change and its impact on various parts of the EU countries, from smog in big cities to marine pollution, shortage of water leading to the loss of farming lands and rise in prices of food, or deforestation and extinction of thousands of species. Students feel that a joint action must promptly be taken and they would like to co-ordinate some artistic activities to raise the awareness of the public about climate change and what individuals and local communities could do to achieve a climate-neutral Europe, as well as encourage the political and economic leaders to adapt their policies regarding the future of the planet so that it remains a livable place for the future generations. These views comply with the European Commission’s priorities for 2019-2024 presented in the European Green Deal. Involvement and commitment of the public and of all stakeholders is crucial to its success, and as various studies show art helps people recognise and identify the problem, but in order to successfully appeal to the public one has to be creative. Our project creates space for artistic expression, for which there is not much room in the curricula of the participating schools. The project also complies with the new methodological trend of combining STEM subjects with Art and draws on the experience from the project coordinated by the Polish school in 2017-2019 „Raising STEAM in Education”, which was distinguished for good practice by the National Agency.The students will analyse climate threats in their countries and regions and demonstrate them in presentations or films during short-term exchanges of students and together in international teams they will work out artistic forms of encouragement to fight the climate hazards. The project partners will find out about the measures taken by the communities and local governments (green engineering, recycling, development of green areas and reserves, etc.) and exchange good practices concerning their schools.Our project shows the problem from a European perspective as it involves partners from different parts of the EU and backgrounds - capital cities and small towns. It creates an opportunity to get to know European biodiversity through study tours of national parks and nature reserves. It enables students to get to know the partner countries’ cultural heritage because the project involves workshops in museums and art galleries, as well as city games in old towns. Like other projects, “Climate Change and Art” offers its participants a unique opportunity to develop life skills, such as team work, tolerance and openness, collaboration towards a common goal, compromise, digital competences, foreign language skills, and pro-democratic attitudes. These will increase the participants’ employability in the future. Our project strengthens the European values and EU dimension in education. All the project activities remain in accordance with the participants’ school curricula and are designed together by students and teachers and many of them are based on active methods, such as flipped classrooms and peer teaching, task-based and collaborative learning. Our project is cross-curricular and interdisciplinary, referring to such subjects as geography, chemistry, biology, physics, history, history of art, ICT, maths. “Climate Change and Art” stresses cooperation with institutions not directly connected with formal education: science centres, R&D institutes, high-tech laboratories, university departments, plants involved in recycling and green engineering, national parks and gardens. The project results and end products, apart from works of art (drawings, photos, digital posters, films, applied art objects, poems, songs, drama), involve lesson scenarios, kahoot and quizlet quizzes, escape room puzzles, educational crosswords, e-book, school code of good practice, which will be open and unrestricted to use by third parties after the project ends.During each exchange of students the project participants will plant a tree in the host school premises, which will remain a living sign of the European Green Deal young people’s cooperation.

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