The environmental challenge has finally been accepted as the serious trouble that it is, due to concepts such as global warming and climate change. This has made a huge amount of information available which allows our students to do a lot of work and become conscious about these global threats. But shadowed by these threats, a lot of other environmental problems are happening day by day, more limited, less notorious, such as coast erosion, loss of fertile soil, acid rain, urban sprawl, poor water quality… not as spectacular as glacier retreat, but still with a great impact on the community that suffers it.

This will be studied through a dynamic and interactive work among students of diverse countries, who will share information about their respective natural and socioeconomic environments in order to discover the importance of those troubles through basic investigation activities.

The creation of an association of European schools, located in various climate zones, with diverse natural and socioeconomic environments, different economic and historic evolution and different languages, will allow us to work in a range of activities that will provide the students with the knowledge of the difficulties of such a big and diverse area as Europe. At the same time, it will offer the students the possibility to communicate with their European counterparts by using a foreign language, to know about each other’s country and work together creatively, using the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and improving their language skills. This will help young people to acquire the basic skills and competences needed for their personal development, for future job opportunities and to become an active European citizen in an environment of lifelong learning.

For teachers, this will be a valuable tool to work closely with the students, and an opportunity to learn new ways to teach, not only by sharing experiences with various educational models, but the challenge to use a different language and the need to use the new ICT tools in their daily work.