After exchanges of pictures, data sheets, drawings of trees and gardens representative of the country, creation of an European “Comenius arboretum” inside the school or the town of partners.

This project aims at making the educational community of each partners’ schools (students, teachers, parents and local representatives) aware of the knowledge and the protection of the forest heritage thanks to a creative use of ICT. There are three major aspects.

1) ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION
a) Discover the variety of the European forest (indeed botanical) heritage and make the educational community aware of its preservation and its geographical diversity.
b) Create a « Comenius garden » in each school, in other words a space planted with different typical trees from each partners countries.

2) REINFORCEMENT OF A EUROPEAN IDENTITY
a) Make the educational community aware of being together accepting others including their cultural and linguistic differences.
b) Develop common strategies to learn languages (mother tongue and foreign language) referring to the European Common Framework for Languages increasing attraction for reading and writing in order to communicate.

3) CREATIVE USE OF ICT
a) Create texts, slideshows using ICT. Making exchanges with partners.
b) Enable teachers to improve their knowledge concerning ICT in order to better their way of teaching foreign languages.

In each school, a “Comenius garden“ and a website will testify the project. It would be possible later to add trees representing the 27 European Countries.