Educational activities with students will be carried out during the academic years 2015/2016 and 2016/2017.
The classes will address energy-related issues focusing on two thematic areas:

A list of 10 specific topics will be proposed for each area. Students will be requested to work on one single topic. 10 international working groups will be composed involving students of all the participating schools.

Considering the differences among the educational systems of the participating schools, and in particular among the educational plans, the average number of students per class and the school calendars, the schools will be involved in different ways.

In order to encourage the collaboration between students of different countries and to stimulate cultural exchanges, 10 transnational working groups will be set up for each thematic area. Each group will be composed by 12 students and 4 tutors.

Students will work in groups, cooperating at a distance, using the free of charge and user-friendly electronic technology available, such as:

• Skype (to organise virtual meetings);
• Google Drive (to exchange information and documents).

To implement properly the activities and to ensure efficient collaboration among the students of the transnational working groups, all participating schools will comply with the same working plan, abiding by the set of activities and deadlines described below. In particular, during each academic year the students’ activities will be organised around four steps:

Here below is the list of topics collected around the two thematic areas: socio-economic issues and technical-environmental issues.
Each topic presents 4 sub-questions, in order to suggest a sort of grid for the research.

This preliminary phase is addressed to all students, regardless of the group and topic of assignment. In fact, it aims at providing all students with an overview of their country’s energy context.

After examining the learning tools published on the Learn area of the Platform, each class will be invited to collect country-specific energy information and to fill in the digital questionnaire provided below.

Local data collected will then be developed into a synthetic comparative report that will be published on the Platform.

Please fill in only one questionnaire per school.

If necessary, the questionnaire can be downloaded in pdf formatand can be filled in off-line.

Do not forget to fill in the digital version..

Here you can set up the10 working groups.
Each group, linked to a topic, is composed by 12 students and 4 tutors, from the different schools.

Depending upon the topic, the teachers of each group shall firstly agree on the methodology for data collection. To this aim, each group shall define a common set of questions, aimed at providing comparable local information.

Each question shall be accompanied by a short description of the objectives and, whenever possible, of the collection procedure. Each student shall collect the same type of data. This will allow for the comparison of country-specific data and for the aggregation of such country-specific data into a journalistic digital report.

Local data and working steps will be discussed within the group.

Students will meet in video conference at the beginning of the work with a Skype call, then they will share ideas and comments with the dedicated forum in the Meet area. They will also upload documents and their gradual work in progress using Google Drive.

Tutors will support the students in organising their work, in particular in setting the deadlines of both national and joint activities.

For each group, the students of the same school will produce a digital output in journalistic format (a reportage, a video interview, a whitepaper in pdf, a short movie, etc) representing what they have learned and discovered in their district about the topic assigned.

As a guideline for the development of the journalistic output, students will be supported by the web seminar “e-journalism” published on the Platform.

Then they will enter the Meet Area, select the proper folder created for the specific topic and upload their digital output. Any folder, representing a topic, will become a showcase for the 4 digital output produced by the group.

After sharing and comparing the country-specific data, each group will finally draft a shared Power Point presentation, summing up the outcomes and specially the pros&cons of the research work carried out.

Shortly before the Pupils’ mobility (by 25 February 2016 for the academic year 2015-2016) the students will upload their presentations in the Meet area. Project tutors will thus carry out a preliminary review of the presentations and eventually provide suggestions for their improvement. A specific session of the Pupils’ mobility will be devoted to this activity, as explained below.

By the end of the academic year, all groups will meet face to face to present the outcomes of the research work carried out. The project tutors firstly will help students, group by group, to improve their short digital report, giving also some usefull communication advices, in order to manage an effective presentation.

Then each group will have a slot of approximately 15 minutes to present the digital report produced with the support of a PowerPoint presentation. During the first meeting (scheduled in Marsico Nuovo, Italy, from the 7th to the 11th of March 2016) reports focusing on the socio-economic topics will be presented.

In the second meeting (scheduled in Zagreb, Croatia, from the 20th to the 24th of March 2017) reports focusing on the technical-environmental topics will be presented.

During the Pupils’ mobility, the students (in working groups) will also be involved in local activities (e.g. visit to the energy production plant). Each group will produce a short output on such activity (presentation, a video or photograph report, etc.).