Our future – our success Erasmus Project

Project Title

Our future – our success

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 Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Teaching and learning of foreign languages

Project Summary

The project’s title was “Our future – our success”. It was intended to acquire the entrepreneurial competence, both theoretical knowledge and practical competence for future life while participating actively in non-formal educational activities organised in cooperation with the partner organisations from Poland, Portugal, Latvia, Romania and Spain. Foreign language and ICT skills development were also the main tasks in this project. The project included students aged 13-16, teachers, parents and local community as well as students with special needs ( 120 students and 60 teachers as direct beneficiaries and 1500 students with their parents, 120 teachers and other people from the local community as indirect beneficiaries). The main project objectives were: creation of practical contexts that develop entrepreneurial competences, the participants’ personal and professional development with a view to proper job selection and insertion through workshops, meetings with businessmen, improving digital competence through preparing multimedia presentations, writing CVs, building the enterprise website, business plan, virtual communication, promoting inter-cultural exchange and dialogue and the development of interpersonal skills through presenting the work done in front of wide public in mother tongue and in English., taking part in the workshops and in non –formal activities, exploring and comparing the schools, curriculum highlighting similarities and differences, discovering different extracurricular activities and transferring the most interesting and practical into their schools, increasing cooperation between institutions on a local and European level through the exchange of good practices, facing young people with social inclusion and well being through exploring and practicing cultural similarities and differences in the way of behaviour in certain situations: when applying for a job, the first day at work, when talking to the principal etc. through workshops and roles playing, revising and strengthening the professional profile of the teaching process share practices and teaching strategies to learn from one another and in discovering similarities the teachers` personality were strengthened. These was achieved through transcurricular activities that were suitable for making different fields of education meet. Participants developed resource management skills (human, material, financial, resources), negotiating skills, market needs, and promotion strategies through learning, teaching and training activities. These were done within short term exchanges of groups of students, travelling with staff and accompanying adults, lasting for seven days as well as activities and tasks to do in each partner school. The main objective of the project was to transfer knowledge from theoretical to practical level and European level to local and community level through linking each mobility with the inter-mobility period in which students applied the knowledge in a practical manner. This was accomplished with meetings, cultural and sport events, presentations. In order to assure proper project implementation, budget control, monitoring and evaluation there was transnational project meetings for coordinators. Questionnaires verified the impact of the activities on the attitude and knowledge of students, parents and teachers throughout the project. The outputs of the project resulted from activities implementation. The tangible results were: project website, project logo, Erasmus+ corner, multimedia cultural presentations, useful vocabulary for: writing CVs, letters of recommendation, negotiation, product promotion, business plan, scenarios of role playing about a job interview and negotiations, methodology of workshops. Intangible results were: the increased participants’ competence of entrepreneurship and non-formal education, improved cultural awareness and interpersonal skills, better language and digital skills, improved professional and private cooperation between institutions and people. When showing presentations in front of the wide audience, providing workshops, taking part in role playing, students and teachers developed their confidence and self – value. The experience gained by students and teachers (direct and indirect beneficiaries of the project) benefited their academic and personal development and their success in the future on the labour market. This project will have consequences after the end of the EU funding. Students and teachers, based on project resources, will disseminate their knowledge and experience. All resources are free of access and their dissemination will ensure project sustainability.
The activities undertaken within the two -year project showed that all students, parents and teachers were together regardless of nationality, language, appearance, gender or religion. It made students’ aware about their successful future.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 135140 Eur

Project Coordinator

Szkola Podstawowa im. Tadeusza Kosciuszki w Lubiczu Gornym & Country: PL

Project Partners

• SCOALA GIMNAZIALA ,,SFANTA TREIME
• Agrupamento de Escolas de Moure e Ribeira do Neiva
• Ventspils 1.pamatskola
• IES Sierra de Guadarrama