Now that the Erasmus+ project Stepping Up to the Sustainable Development Goals is over, it's time to look back. What did we achieve? What did we learn? What did we experience? Did we reach the goals?
At the beginning
of the project, in August 2019 we wrote in this blog (quoting Tiina Fredriksson
from Laanila High School):
The aim of the project is not
only to introduce UN Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals to all
our students, teachers, staff, and whole school community, but also to
ambitiously implement a cornucopia of best practice by uniting our European
schools in action.
During the three-year-project
we will introduce all the 17 Global Goals, focus on four of them and
"create an army of goalkeepers” who will spread the change-choices even
broader within our countries and Societies.
Goal 1: Poverty
Goal 8: Decent Work
Goal 12: Responsible
Consumption
Goal 14: Ocean Pollution
Partners:
"Laanila High School", Oulu, Finland (coordinator)
"Svenska Privatskolan i
Uleåborg", Oulu, Finland
"Lycée Antoine
St-Exupéry", Les Avirons, La Reunion
"Escuela sa de
Miranda", Braga, Portugal
"IES Juan Antonio Fernandez
Perez", Melilla, Spain "Ysgol Dyffryn Taf", Whitland,
Wales
As we all know, the pandemic mixed up even our plans and the project didn't actualize as originally planned. Luckily, we were able to work together and even travel to see all the actions within the project in real life.
Our project started with a logo competition. We got some excellent candidates to send to Melilla, where we’d vote for the project logo. At the very beginning we also printed all the Agenda 2030 goals as posters on the wall for everybody to see them.
Next activity was a plogging event with our neighbor high school OSYK. The event was so fun, and our cooperation worked so well that we have continued participating OSYK’s plogging events and organized our own events.
In October 2019 we sent two students to La Reunion for two-months exchange, and in November 2021 we received two of their students to our school for a month. All the students that were involved learned a lot about other cultures and local issues concerning sustainability. They also improved their language skills.
In November 2019 we had a meeting in Melilla, in November 2021 in La Reunion, in February 2022 in Finland, and finally in April 2022 in Portugal. In the meetings we learned about the local actions, solutions, challenges, and projects within the framework of sustainability. We made new friends, learned new languages, got inspired, and experienced new things together. After the trips, the participating students had presentations and talked about their experiences to the other students and teachers in the school. We also made a new exhibition in our glass vitrine after every meeting to show everybody in the school what we’d learned.
We started to participate in the Finnish Red Cross’ Hunger Day collection already before this project started, and we have continued participating during all these years. Every autumn, we take our first-year students to collect money in the streets of Oulu. All the donations go to the catastrophe fund to help people in need. Under this project we also organized a Joulupuu collection (Christmas Tree) to gather Christmas gifts to the kids in less fortunate families, and a charity event to help the people of Ukraine.
Other actions besides everyday routines with reducing food waste and saving electricity and water, have been investing in well-being, gender equality, peace, and love to the nature. We have organized theme days, nature trips and hikes to evoke feelings.
The best part of all of this has been working together for the better future. We have found comfort in the fact that we are not alone, and together we can make a huge difference.
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Introducing Agenda 2030 to all the students and whole school community ✅
Showing our best practices within
the sustainability and learning from others
Developing critical thinking ✅
Communication ✅
Foreign language skills
Digital literacy ✅
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