Many resources of our Planet Earth are not
equally shared. This is being globally discussed, facing the fact that the
growth of the world population will bring our planet to its limits. At the same
time there is an affluence and waste of resources in many European countries,
and global problems are not really taken serious. On the other hand many European countries are
patterns in many fields for the whole world regarding sustainability. But we do
not make use of our full potential, the strength and experience of EU states to
enhance sustainability - despite the fact that our agricultural Common Market
is so well interwoven.
The project “European food sustainability vs.
food waste” will involve students and teachers from 5 different countries and
backgrounds (Germany, Italy, France, Poland and Spain) in an effort to discover and learn about the resources,
components and habits related to food and consumerism while they are analyzing
and working with their own culture and the culture of their partner schools.
All the staff in our schools, the parents, the local/regional Cultural
Associations and the local authorities will be invited to take part in the
activities proposed in our project.
We
intend to develop positive attitudes, habits and respect towards healthy food
and consumers' education contrasting and gaining awareness on the differences
and similarities, analyzing results with people from other cultures and to
promote the concept of European citizenship through intercultural dialogue on
health and social issues. We intend to help our students to grow a sense of
belonging, not only in their own society and culture, but also in a bigger
social community – Europe. In addition, we aim to improve the foreign language
skills of students and teachers through CLIL methodology, the use of ICT at
school as a way of communicating with other partners and a mutual understanding
on strategies for the inclusion of all pupils.
Our pupils will share many activities with their European partners
through the eTwinning platform and in the meetings and learning activities.
They will learn about different cultures, habits, foods and dishes and lifestyles.
All these activities will be included in our school curriculum. They will also
discover the importance of learning a foreign language to communicate with
others in a real context through enjoyable activities.
The main goal of our project is to give our
students a good chance of widening their cultural horizons, to increase their
sense of belonging to a wider community and to teach them to work
collaboratively towards specific topics, fostering consciousness as citizens of
Europe. Therefore, this partnership with European schools will enable us to add
excitement to the teaching of culture, traditions, and foreign languages and to
motivate the students in their learning when they are given the chance to
compare different educational systems and methodologies and the opportunity to
participate in the daily life of some European schools.
1. Analysis of the product packaging, wrapping, its chemical
composition; the choice of the most sustainable packaging; ideas of package
replacement, the introduction of good habits, analysis of symbols, logos on the
packages
2. Questionnaire: time and composition of meals, evaluation of the
quality of nutrition, proposals for change bad eating habits; analysis and
comparing of the results
3. Interviews with shop-owners, shop-assistants of hypermarkets and
supermarkets, preparing a report on the quantity and quality of food waste.
4. Situation of people in need of food. Ways of collecting food and
transferring it to those who need it, charity actions.
5. Food products (domestic and foreign), their availability in
supermarkets, domestic and international offer of restaurants, new dishes,
their original names and pronunciation and national translations. Green, ecologic and
local produce.
The students
of each country create some logos and they have to choose one logo for the
contest. The logo will be uploaded on the website. 10 students +
1 teacher + the headmaster in each country have to choose the best logo.
Compulsory elements
of the Logo:
- Name of the project “Supermeal“
- EU Logo in it
- Year 2017-19
- All countries have to be involved
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