Deplastify the Planet – 1st students’ exchange in Austria From the 11th – 18th February 2023 the BG/BRG Judenburg hosted the first students’ exchange for the EU-project “Let’s deplastify the Planet”. 29 Austrian students welcomed 29 students from Belgium, Coratia, Portugal, Spain and Aruba (Netherlands). The main topics of this exchange were raising awareness of the negative impact of plastic on the environment and finding strategies how to reduce and avoid plastic trash in general. This students exchange was implemented within the framework of the Erasmus+ project “Deplastify the Planet” ( https://letschallengethefu.wixsite.com/deplastifytheplanet1 ) coordinated by the belge coordinating school Sint-Gummarus High School represented by Eva Peeters and Johan Bosmans. The responsible teachers of the BG/BRG Judenburg Mag.a Ilse Prenn and Mag. Bernd Fiechtl had prepared an extensive programme including a wide range of social, linguistic, cultural, ecological and sports activities. All participants arrived on Saturday, 11th February 2023 using ecological means of transport (either train or bus). All exchange students were welcomed by Austrian families, who also accommodated all exchange students in their homes. Sunday, 12th February 2023 The first day included different ice-breaking activities where students got to know each other. Students were separated in two groups and carried out different sports activities. These activities were led by the sports teachers Mag.a Ulrike Schlacher and Mag.a Birgit Figlhuber. After the first getting to know activities the Austrian coordinators introduced all participants and teaches to the programme of the week and how to use the digital platform https://padlet.com/letschallengethefuture/dptp-1st-students-meeting-in-austria-zk2c4rb705r96fke for a proper and smooth communication during the project week. Monday, 13th February 2023 On the morning of the second day students and teachers worked on the preparation of the comic book, which is a main product of this project. The activities had been prepared by the belge project partner in cooperation with belge publisher “Sprenger”. The workshop was led by the two teachers Kristoph Decapmaker and Hans Smith of the Sint-Gummarus High School. The teachers introduced all students to the main topic of the comic book: “The world’s future is more threatened than ever! There’s a big villain who has evil plans to spread more plastics around the world – and he has the power, the money, and the team to do so. He just loves plastics in all colours, and he dreams of a world that simply drowns in the material. The clock is ticking : it’s high time to stop him! To turn the tide, our heroes need to combine their talents and superpowers. They need to travel around the world – visiting Belgium, Portugal, Spain, Croatia, Aruba, and Austria – to team up and collect clues about how they can stop the villain and save the world. In each country, they face another challenge involving the impact of plastics. How will their journey go? How will they stop the villain? It’s up to you!” The students formed 10 teams of 6 students and each team developed one character. Participating teachers supported students to understand the tasks and to start working. Students created on overall: · 6 heroes, one from each country (Austria, Croatia, Portugal, Spain, Aruba, Belgium) · 1 boss / scientist / wise person to bring together, help and guide the 6 heroes · 1 big villain · 2 sidekicks of the villain Additionally they defined the identity of their character in detail by answering the following questions: · What’s the name of your character? · What are the country-specific characteristics of your character? · Define 2 strengths of your character. · Define 2 weaknesses of your character. · Define 1 unique superpower of your character – how will your character make the difference? Bear in mind that each character in the team of heroes needs to have another type of superpower. · What drives your character? Why does your character want to save the world from plastics? At eleven o’clock representatives of the Sprenger publishing house and the belge coordinator Eva Peeters joined the project virtually meeting all groups one by one. All groups presented their outcomes and their characters online. In the afternoon the Vice-Mayor of Judenburg Mag. Thorsten Wohlesser had invited all Europan and Austrian delegations for a reception at the city tower. In his welcoming speech he pointed out the importance of students’ exchanges for the BG/BRG Judenburg but also for Judenburg. In the evening the hosts invited all project partners to join the official teachers’ meeting in order to discuss the project in more detail and to enjoy some Styrian culinary specialities Tuesday, 14th February 2023 On that day all delegations went by bus to the “Zotter” chocolate factory. This factory was chosen because ecological chocolate is sustainably produced there. At the beginning of the tour at the factory all participants got an introduction on how cocoa beans are harvested and transported reducing the eco-footprint. In the second part of this introduction students and teachers got an overview how the factory is run and how organic and sustainable chocolate is produced on site. After this introduction on chocolate production all delegations had the opportunity to walk through the factory tasting different types of chocolate. Finally, the group even had the opportunity to take a picture with the owner of the factory. After the visit of the factory all partners returned to Graz where students and teachers had some time to explore the city: Hauptplatz (main square), Schlossberg (castle hill), Rathaus (city hall), Landhaus (regional government), Murinsel (island in the river Mur), Kunsthaus (art gallery) etc. All participants also had time to eat lunch during this break. The final activity of that day was the visit of the nationally operating plastic selecting and recycling company “Saubermacher” ( https://saubermacher.at/en/company/saubermacher-eco-tours/ ). There all students and teacher could grasp a glimpse behind the scenes of the recycling industry and to see how Saubermacher works. As a partner in ‘Erlebniswelt Wirtschaft’, they offered students and teachers an exciting glimpse into the world of recycling and waste recovery. The automatic plastics sorting plant processes around 32,000 tonnes of packaging waste every year. The main task here is to segregate lightweight packaging waste from aluminium cans and tetra-pack beverage cartons. This involves a number of technologies, including infra-red sensing and colour recognition devices. The plant sorts and processes plastic packaging waste from all over Styria, as well as Carinthia and Vienna. More than 80% of the material received at the plant is returned to an environmentally-friendly materials cycle.
Padlet: https://padlet.com/letschall engethefuture/euroscola-2023-6th-graders-5mmiiyd3ha341ue1 Video: Euroscola – Look-Back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2AaLLDJE-s Video: School video: https://youtu.be/pf4tXcHpJCc Strasbourg Day 1 Our trip started on Saturday at 21:45. We met at the bus stop in front of our school. After everyone found a place to sit, we drove away. Everyone was very excited, but after our first stop we all were tired. On our bus trip we took two breaks, and we bought something to eat. After ten hours we arrived in Straßburg. It was about 8am when we arrived at the Hostel, where we would live for the next days. After we put down our luggage in our rooms we could spend some time on our own until 12. Most of the stundents went to get breakfast and already explored the city a little bit. Everyone spent the afternoon doing a “Chasse de Trésor” (Scavenger hunt). We got split into different group with each 4 people. The start was at the Cathedral and from them on we had to find 12 different points spread out in the whole city. The sights we had to find were marked as points on google maps. The group that made group-pictures in front of each one of the attractions and was at the last point the “Musée historique” fastest won. By doing the scavenger hunt we got to see many parts of the city that would´ve be hidden from us if we didn´t do it. Sometimes the sights were in the middle of a street and sometimes they were really hard to find. You had to make a route at the beginning of the hunt to avoid running in a circle and be faster than the other groups. Looking back was the hunt the best opportunity to see every bit of the city and always something I would love to repeat. In the evening some of us visited a big cinema a few minutes away from the old town of Strasbourg called „UGC Ciné Cité”. After a long debate, we finally decided which movie we were going to watch. The decision fell on the well-known film „Puss in Boots“ or in french „le chat botté“. So we grabbed ourselfs some snacks and softdrinks and made our way into cinema hall. Of course the movie was in french so we had a hard time understanding some things but overall everyone of us understood the story line, even though some of us were a bit tired because of the long distance we travelled the night before. After the film we quickly made our way home with the tram and ended our first day in Strasbourg by playing some games at our hotel. Sebastian Knoll, Sarah Walch, Elena Heiling, Lena Kaiser
Sustainable Eco-Friends meet in Judenburg From the 5th – 11th February 2023 the BG/BRG Judenburg welcomed twelve Spanish students and two Spanish teachers (Jaime Sainz and Ines Lado – from the Colegio Abad Sola in Gandia) for another student’s exchange. The main topics of this exchange with the title “Sustainable Eco-Friends” were “sustainability and environmental protection”. All exchange students were hosted with Austrian students and were accommodated with Austrian families. The responsible teachers Mag.a Susanne Stadler, Mag. Michael Kurzemann, Mag.a Ilse Prenn and Mag. Bernd Fiechtl had prepared an extensive programme including social, linguistic, cultural, ecological and sports activities ( https://padlet.com/letschallengethefuture/akk-2022-at-sp-54yw19tb6zbiu9t4 ). The first day included different ice-breaking activities where students got to know each other. These activities were carried out by the sports teachers Mag. Peter Bogensberger and Mag. Roland Gach. After the first getting to know activities the Vice-Mayor of Judenburg Mag. Thorsten Wohlesser had invited the Spanish and Austrian delegation for a reception at the city tower. In his welcoming speech he pointed out the importance of students’ exchanges for the BG/BRG Judenburg but also for Judenburg. After the reception students had the opportunity to watch a film on environmental issues at the famous “Sternenturm”.
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