Integration into learning and/or other ongoing activities
There are mainly two kinds of pupils participation in the German school.
There are pupils who work on the preparation and production of some technical utilities especially the miniature house. These pupils come from the school fields of “profession preparation”. To work manually with technical devices is very important and the main task within this kind of schooling. So it is a good opportunity to use these abilities in such a project. Another aspect is the use of some real new energy devices for using on the school ground.
The other involved pupils do their university access exam at our school. Their work in the project contains the research, planning and economic implementation of the various technical devices which we use. They work about it in different subjects within the subjects curriculum, especially in Economic Geography about the theme resources of the earth. Other subjects are Physics, Economics and English. They do the implementation of our wind, solar and geothermal energy systems into our miniature house from the monetary point of view. They search for the best economic solutions in the use of new energy technologies.
This search should not be limited from the beginning because there is a chain of technologies in the field. If you have a house you need some good new energy car for example.
These pupils do the work in the regular curriculum in two groups over a time of some month and some ours per week. Over the time there will be six learning groups involved. They will be doing also the final printed material as one result of our cooperation.
When the mobilities take place with a meeting in our school of course there will be included some more pupils of our school from different courses, classes and fields into the preparation work and the cultural exchange of that project.
Dissemination and use of results
The most important aspect of the whole project will be the general realization that European and individual energy problems can be solved by new energy technologies. This can be shown and propagated within the participating schools as well as in the local communities by our whole project. The taking part of a large number of students with high quality contribution is the first and most important step to communicate these ideas.
Within our schools we have many dissemination areas to use. There will be classes, conferences, meetings, exhibitions, posters, webspace.
In the local community we will find dissemination through cooperation with parents, local companies, excursions, newspaper articles, our websites and other also printed materials.
The working together with some larger new energy companies and universities will be elaborated, but will be as such a part of the project. Within this framework is the analyzing of the labor market of new energy as a means of helping develop our pupils future and give the companies access to qualified workforce.
Teachersmeeting during preparatory visit in Nove Zamky January 24-27/2008
