PROJECT SUMMARY

Following the “EU-HOU: Hands on Universe, Europe!” training Session ID: 39759, in June 2012 in Paris, we understood that keeping science in focus of our European society is an important issue. As we are all concerned by energy matters, we will build our common project on renewable energies. Our main objectives are to make our students aware of global energy problems and solutions, attract them toward science streams, especially girls, making fun science, have them communicate about a common project in English, using computing tools and develop their European citizenship being in contact with other students all around the European Union. 
We have decided to use different tools presented to us during the training session in our classrooms and to exchange experience on our different teaching methods, integrating CLIL, inquiry-based methods and peer-to-peer teaching methods. 
This project will be a collaboration between 6 different countries involving schools, research centers and partnerships with local administrations and industries. 
We will organize, in every partner’s school, project meetings on specific renewable energy themes. We will visit renewable energies facilities. We will develop models for every type of renewable energy sources. Moreover, we will set up at every project meeting a session of funny science experiments and we will organize a drawing contest between our schools with the theme “Town of the future”. Finally, all the materials realized during our project will be exposed in a big exhibition and a final conference will be taking place in the coordinator’s city hall. The project website will present all the progress of our project.
A final booklet and a DVD with all the outcomes will be produced.

The concrete objective of our project is to improve science teaching at all school levels. The topic will be focused on developing experiments and materials on renewable energies, following   three different strategies. We want to apply “ Inquiry teaching methods “ as a starting point , the pupils have to ask: how is it possible to solve the energy problem for our community using local renewable energies ? Each partner has to choose and develop one of the renewable energy process. We also want to use the “peer to peer” communication. Pupils have to explain the solution and the experiments prepared to other pupils. Another important objective of the partnership is to communicate the results in a common foreign language, English is the most useful language for science communication, all partners will apply the C.L.I.L. methodology for improving language knowledge and scientific skills. Moreover, other general and concrete objectives of our partnership are:
 - Develop a greater understanding of “Global Warming” as a common problem 
 - Encourage pupils to take positive and common roles for preserving the environment.
 - Promote awareness of the renewable energy importance in the future.
In order to achieve these objectives, we have planned the following activities:
- Project meetings
- Creating project slogan and logo with participating schools
- Project web site
- Creating funny experiments and exhibitions
- Posters
- Public exhibition and conference