21st Century Skills: Adaptive Qualities Of The World’s Unstoppable Evolution Erasmus Project

Project Title

21st Century Skills: Adaptive Qualities Of The World’s Unstoppable Evolution

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Environment and climate change; Inclusion – equity; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

In this project, students will develop their 21st century skills of communication, collaboration, creativity and critical thinking through activities focused on important global issues: human rights, substance abuse and climate change.
Activities under each theme will use all four skills. For example, they will communicate through new media, online and face to face, with their peers in other countries to work together, and negotiate the target global issues, and also they will collaborate with new people, who may have completely different cultures and points of view on each topic, and agree on their common action plan.
They will research human rights, substance abuse and climate change and analyse their findings, which will develop critical thinking skills. Students will also create a project logo, posters and presentations, an e-magazine and design the project website, all of which will develop creativity.
We aim to improve students’ 4C skills, which are executive function skills for tasks such as planning, organizing and strategising and helping students develop self-regulation, working memory and cognitive flexibility which will encourage them to learn new ideas and develop their social-emotional capabilities. Therefore, 21st century skills are a necessary to prepare our students for success in school, work and life.
Global awareness is an appreciation of interconnected worldwide environmental, political, economic, and social relations and their consequences. The responsibility must be demonstrated through active and constructive involvement with global issues individually, through our communities and in concert with people around the world. Thus, as 4 partner schools, we will raise awareness in our students about human rights, climate change and substance abuse which are in the top list of global issues, and also we will encourage them to take action for these issues collaborating with their peers from different countries. Students experiencing human rights violation are afraid of going to school, have low academic success and tend to drop out. Therefore, activities covering human rights have been planned to make students to internalize human rights values, which will supply partner schools a safer, inclusive school climate, and reduce bullying and other negative behaviours, and also decrease in the rates of absenteeism and early school leaving. Researches show that there is definite link between teen substance abuse and academic success. Addiction leads to lower grades, higher school absence and high potential for dropping out. We will lead students to understand the danger of substance abuse. In addition to threatening our very existence, climate change is having harmful impacts on our rights to life, health, food, water, housing and livelihoods. Therefore, students must learn that climate change is no longer just of interest to scientists, but every individual has responsibility to save the world. Through the project activities, students will take action for tackling climate change.

200 students aged 16 to 18 and 30 teachers will take part actively in the project. There will be Four LTTAs. The first is for staff training, in which teachers will be trained by experts about innovative methods to develop students’ competences in terms of 4Cs, ICT and also to integrate these methods into project methodology. The others have been planned as short-term exchanges of groups of pupils in which students will execute the planned activities under the name of ‘Global Issues Awareness Club’ that will be established in each partner school. There will be club meetings in which students will present their presentations on role models activists, do brainstorming ,create logos, decide action plans for tackling discussed global issues, have the opportunity to express their ideas in front of a group consisting of students from different countries. Apart from the activities to be done in LTTAs, students will create project logo, e-magazine, Erasmus corner, presentations for the project dissemination tools, design a project website and complete surveys.
Teachers will guide and support students to reach desired results and quality outcomes, conduct surveys, carry out the eTwinning project, form their project teams, write evaluation reports. The school boards will make official appointments, organize meetings, and facilitate the bureaucratic work.
Dissemination plan has been planned regional, national and international dimension. Informative meetings will be organized. Project news will be released in regional, if possible, national press and media. All the outcomes will be shared in the project dissemination tools which are project website, Youtube channel, eTwinning project journal and official school websites.
The ‘Global Issues Awareness Club’ will continue beyond the 2 year project as an extracurricular activity at partner schools.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 122706 Eur

Project Coordinator

The Corporation of NCG & Country: UK

Project Partners

• Gazi Anadolu Lisesi
• Budapesti Gépészeti SZC Öveges József Szakgimnáziuma és Szakközépiskolája
• IES ANTONI MAURA