CONTEXT AND BACKGROUNDENABLING ACCESS TO SCIENTIFIC YIELD (E.A.S.Y) - Discover the Elements Around You!Given the speed of innovation in research and applied sciences, our schools across Europe are working towards better science litracy and basic skills in research and inquiry for their students. Discovery, implication and individual learning have proven to be key elements in fostering skill development. Practical, easy access-tasks and open-source tools have been shown to be useful in nurturing student success. Intercultural and diversity learning as well as avoidance of a potential gender-bias in sciences have turned out to be key factors for science education of the present and future.OBJECTIVESThe project has created an online manual for advanced science classes in English. While its syllabus features the exemplary European sites of production and consumption of our project school locations, its goal is to propose a guide to accessible, practical objects of scientific inquiry while showing the need for sustainable development across Europe. In preparing the manual, students could-develop skills in practical scientific research activities (biology, chemistry, physics)-increase digital skills (using tools and media for research, documentation and exchange of findings)-nurture transversal skills (self-management, assessment/presentation of information, (English) language skills)-gain intercultural exposure, diversity literacy, and awareness of gender assumptionsNUMBER / PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTSAround 100 students and 20 teachers actively involved. Students are from the advanced secondary cycle of our four high schools spread out all across Europe (FINLAND, GERMANY, SLOVENIA, SPAIN). Participants were active an motivated in science classes and interested in intercultural exchange. Colleagues involved were a cross-disciplinary group of science, language, sociology, history, IT, and graphic and performative arts teachers with a common sense of European citizenship.DESCRIPTION OF UNDERTAKEN ACTIVITIESALL ACTIVITIES FORM a discovery journey of course work on all the partner locations across Europe with preparatory work, analyses, exchange of findings, comparisons, discussion, on-site field work and documentation: YEAR ONE: SKIN AND SUNFirst semester: Learning occasion: SLOVENIA international learning mobilitySubject: Plastics on our skin and the biosphere: use, replacements and alternativesSKIN CARE RECONSIDERED: COSMETICS ( SKIN a)TURN NANOS INTO NUTSHELLS – AVOIDING NANOPLASTICS IN COSMETICS? ( SKIN b) Second semester: Learning occasion: SPAIN international learning mobilitySubject: Solar power, industrial farming: production, use and implicationsNADA COMO EL SOL: SOLAR POWER AND FORMS OF USAGE (SUN a) SURFACES - OPERATING PLANTS AND PLANTATIONS (SUN b)YEAR TWO: TISSUES AND TEXTILESThird semester: Learning occasion: GERMANY international learning mobilitySubject: Coloring and textile production: Development and social balanceTHE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES: TEXTILES, COATINGS AND COLORS (TEXTILES a)CHANCES AND CHALLENGES: EQUITY AND REALISM IN TEXTILE PRODUCTION (TEXTILES b)Fourth semester: Learning occasion: FINLAND international learning mobilitySubject: Wood, pulp and paper: ecological footprint and alternativesOUT OF THE WOODS: TIMBER, PULP, PAPER, ENERGY (TISSUES a) ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS: THE DIFFERENT (RE)USES OF PULP (TISSUES b)SEQUENCE OF ACTIVITIES FOR EACH OF THE FOUR SEMESTERS (as specified in 5.4):- find key examples for sustainable development in daily lives and in their immediate environments (Skin, Sun, Textiles, Paper)- establish connection of these items to their production sites across Europe- research the procedures involved (sourcing, substances, mechanisms)- asses the implications (social, ecological and economic balance)- investigate benefits / alternatives- relate, exchange and communicate findings for a bigger pictureOBJECTIVE AND RESULTPresentations and documentations for the final product, our online manual with reports, presentations, charts and videos, tutorials and guides to sustainability awareness across Europe.exhibits, talks, presentations, peer-to peer teaching workshops by students at dissemination occasions. IMPACT / LONGER-TERM BENEFITSLOCAL / DIRECT PARTICIPATION-better skills and results and enrollment in science classes, raised awareness of European citizenship, diversity exposure- lasting manual and documents for future use by science classes, teachers and learners across Europe- students / cooperating teachers: greater sense of initiative, enthusiasm and sense of European citizenship, greater awareness of the potentials of the program - Enrollment in Erasmus Plus project succeeded in addressing students with migrant background - More active student participation in school profile, new initiatives at schools - Increased number of students deciding in favor of scientific classes.