4TEEN-Writing, Acting and Playing Erasmus Project

Project Title

4TEEN-Writing, Acting and Playing

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 : Strategic Partnerships for school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Inclusion – equity; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

The Erasmus project KA201, 4TEEN – Writing, Acting and Playing (4TEEN-WAP) is a horizontal priority – social inclusion – and is a strategic partnership for the exchange of good practices between schools facing similar problems, such as reducing the phenomenon of social exclusion, school dropout, discrimination of disadvantaged students who want a friendly learning environment.
The partnership includes 8 high schools in Romania, Turkey, Croatia, Portugal, Italy, Macedonia and Poland, where extracurricular activities are currently carried out, but they have different experience in applying a social inclusion plan. The partnership also includes a non-governmental organization from Italy, which is also an institute of applied psychological sciences, in order to ensure the complementarity of the partnership and the cross-sectoral character of the project.
The specific objectives are subordinated to the directions of the Erasmus + program, to national and European priorities, targeting both the school field and adult education. These are the following:
1. increasing the motivation of 200 students to use sport, reading and drama as means of social, cultural, economic, political and historical knowledge of their own country, as well as of the partner countries in order to expand the space in which they feel valued;
2. developing key competences, such as linguistic, digital and teamwork ones, of 200 students through educational, creative and integrative activities, in order to avoid school failure and early school leaving;
3. diversifying the teaching methods and IT tools of the 140 participating teachers, through a practical-experimental, active-interactive, interdisciplinary approach;
4. training 40 teachers by participating in courses in order to achieve social inclusion.
The target group of this project is represented by 200 students aged 15-19, 40% of whom are from disadvantaged or at risk of school failure and 140 general subject teachers (the school’s stable human resource that will generate long-term effect) who will adapt their teaching strategies in order to attract disadvantaged students to school and will be trained in the field of social inclusion.
3 transnational meetings (Romania, Portugal and Turkey) aim at signing contracts, establishing working procedures, carrying out reports and verifying intellectual products.
The 5 activities carried out by teachers and students (in Turkey, Croatia, Macedonia, Romania, Italy) contain English-language drama workshops, literary writing and sports activities which have the role to develop students’ language skills, teamwork in an expanded intercultural environment, to stimulate creative thinking, challenging students intellectually, verbally, emotionally and physically, to enrich teachers with innovative teaching strategies through an interactive approach.
2 Training activities (Poland, Italy) will contribute to enriching the teachers with new class management skills, to improve the teaching, to integrate new working methods with the students and techniques for improving social identity in class, to prevent measures for bullying and antisocial behaviours and to promote prosocial behaviour in school.
The Project results:
– the decrease in the number of students dropping out of school and the failure rate;
– developing participating students’ creativity, communication skills and teamwork;
– the practise of students’ key competences;
– stopping discrimination in school;
– the organization in partner schools of school drama, sport and creative writing clubs that follow the personal development of young people;
– intellectual results – the Guide for identifying students with educational risk, the Procedure for supporting / integrating disadvantaged students in formal and non-formal educational activities, the Guide for multilingual conversation, the European — Curriculum – Teaching through the school club – teacher’s kit, the course support Management of School Inclusion are all open educational resources available to everyone in the Open Educational Library;
the diversification of teachers’ educational strategies.

The main impact at the school level aims at a better social inclusion of the students, the connection of the teachers to the new European tendencies in the field of education, the long-term use by as many schools and teachers of the OER materials included in the Open Educational Library.
The impact is realized at local, regional, European and international level – and aims to create a unitary environment of sustainable and inclusive learning by adapting and updating curricula and organizational practices in education, increasing investments in educational programs oriented towards integrating sustainability principles, increased interest for the creation of strategic partnerships and synchronization of international educational policies, development of partner networks through Etwinning projects.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 273417 Eur

Project Coordinator

Colegiul Economic “Virgil Madgearu” Galati & Country: RO

Project Partners

• MEDICINSKA SKOLA OSIJEK
• Zespol Szkol w Zychlinie
• Associação Torrejana de Ensino Profissional
• Sredno opshtinsko uchilishte RISTE RISTESKI – RICHKO Prilep
• International Institute of Applied Psychology and Human Sciences associazione culturale
• ADEM TOLUNAY ANADOLU LISESI
• Liceo Scientifico Statale Plinio