An initiative of

Documentation of results

Developed by students of Elisabeth-von-Thadden-Schule, Heidelberg, Germany22.03.-25.03.2010

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General InformationDate, location and topic of the week

- Monday, 22.03.2010 until Thursday, 25.03.2010

- On the premises of Elisabeth-von-Thadden-Schule, Heidelberg

- Country: Germany

- Topic of the week: New Energy for Europe

Participants

- 24 students from 11th & 12th grade

- Under the patronage of: Dr. Würzner, Mayor of Heidelberg;

Kai Dondorf , City Council, Green Party;

Lothar Binding, member of the German Parliament, Social Democratic Party (per video message)

Dr. Karl Lamers, member of the German Parliament, Christian Democratic Party (per video message)

Accompanied by: Dr. Döpp, teacher

Facilitation of project week: Roy Burger

- In collaboration with: Cittadinanz attiva, Rom

Partner school:

- Liceo Plinio Seniore of Rome, Rome, Italy

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Outcome Integration Officers

Introducing ourselves

Homepage Elisabeth-von-Thadden-Schule:

www.elisabeth-von-thadden-

schule.de

What we found out about our partner country

- About the countryside...

- About the people...

- How the education system works...

- About the History

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Day 1: Background and Developing Ideas

Analysis of Megatrends concerning “New Energy for Europe”:

- Climate change

- Sustainability

- Shortage of resources

- A linked world

Analysis of trends around “New Energy for Europe”:- Security of energy supply - I want to stay warm!- Competition in the energy market- Nuclear energy – just clean and cheap?- Fossil fuel- Invest in renewable resources

Communicating results successfullyStudents learn about and apply presentation, facilitation andcommunication methods and technologies.

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Day 2: Practical Insights

Feedback from the Expert

Students receive feedback from experts and practitioners on their first ideas as well as tips and recommendations. From a practical point of view, the experts share their knowledge about the topic and answer the students‘ questions. The topic is put into the European context.

Students learn about the different aspects of the topic:

- Aspect 1 What Europe has to do with my personal life...

- Aspect 2 Facts about energy

- Aspect 3 Actions to be taken in order to preserve the world

- Aspect 4 Solar power and energy efficiency

- Aspect 5 Outlook to the future of Energy

- Aspect 6 New view to energy production and consumption

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Day 3: Reality-Check

The dynamics of different interests – Real-life simulation

- Three political parties develop their manifestos and compete for citizens‘ votes

- Election campaign advisors support the parties in communicating their messages and call for participation in the elections

- A critical NGO monitors the developments and tries to bring in its objectives

- The press eagerly reports on what is going on

» Within the framework of a role play, students experience the power play in today‘s political life: different interests meet and compete and only the most convincing ones among them will get their message through.

The resulting ideas are presented at „Europe 2020“, the European Election campaign event.

- Students present their ideas, concepts and the critical assessment thereof and have to face the feedback and comments of a demanding audience.

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Day 4: Putting the results to vote

A Parliamentary Debate on the topic of the future

- Students present their manifestos and themselves before an audience consisting of representatives and staff of the hosting school, the partnering organisation, invited guests and the press.

The audience gives feedback ... and votes

- Discussion of the final results

- Voting for the most convincing party: “European Social Party - ESP”

How was it?

- Students give their feedback on the project week their feedback on the project week

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Results – Manifesto 1, the winning manifesto

European Social Party – ESP

The ESP has a strong focus on social aspects that are related to energy issues. Their central point is that environmental care is based on social justice. In order to assure an efficient climate protection all demographic groups are relevant, as energy consumption is not related to earnings.

In addition to this the ESP stands for autonomy in energy production to reduce economic dependencies.

To achieve their goals it is planned to invest in renewable energy, to install European wide environment classes in schools, to support passive houses and to create a tax based on the sustainability of a product or a servie

After a excellent and very sophisticated presentation the ESP won the election with 45% of the votes.

Furthermore the ESP created a remarkable party program of three pages.

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Results – Manifesto 2

Partei Europäischen Fortschritts - PEF

The PEF plans to advance Europe to the most important producer of renewable energies.

They want to stick to atomic power plants for roughly 60 years to give the producers of energy the chance to use the earned money to develop better renewable energy. Another goal is the privatisation of state enterprises. This is tied to certain prerequisites like a conclusive concept for environmental and sustainable issues.

In order to reduce carbon dioxide they want to extend the trade of energy certificates.

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Results – Manifesto 3

European Environmental Party - EEP

The EEP has four main goals- 100% renewable energy till 2080- A massive reduction of carbon dioxide emission- Nuclear phase out till 2035- An approvement of energy efficiency

The EEP program will bring photovoltaic cells on all public buildings and a financial support for the research in hydrogen cars

Du to the massive CO2 pollution based on the enormous server parks worldwide the EEP decided to present their ideas on brown paper an did not use Computers.

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Results – Election campaign advisors

(S)elect – Election campaign advisors

The election campaign helped the parties to evolve their programs and they also created a movie Advertisement in order to get all people to vote. They presented a whole campaign with Flyers, Posters, Celebrities.

They also did a election survey which was very accurate. They had only a variance of 2%. And the prognosis of the winner was even better.

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Results – Input from Atomic Force (NGO)

Atomic Force

The main goal of the NGO is to research atomic fusion and give us a save an stable energy supply.

- A reduction of CO2

- prolong the life span of nuclear power plants- More European wide research in nuclear technics- A reduction of fossil fuel

The AF disturbed the presentation of the EEF. They used whistles, threw flyers, covered the EEF brown paper with an own one, entered the stage and proclaimed their demands

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Press article

The press did a tremendous job and produced the a 9 paged press summary of the week. As it is so much text here are some pictures of their work.