Bridge To a Brighter Future Erasmus Project

Project Title

Bridge To a Brighter Future

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 2018

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

Last June 2021 the 2-year KA229-School Exchange Partnerships Project, named “Bridge to a Brighter Future came to an end. It was coordinated by Italy and it included the partnership of five schools: Nazilli Menderes Anadolu Lisesi, Turkey; Tertnes videregaende skole, Norway; Albertus-Magnus-Gymnasium Bensberg, Germany; Agrupamento de Escolas de Constancia, Portugal, I.I.S. fermi Filangieri, Italy.
This project found its main objectives in the development of relevant skills and high quality competences, including business education.
Recently, whole Europe has been involved in a job crisis never known before and especially young people are undergoing great difficulties in finding a job. Even if this job crisis seem to be coming to an end, it is clear that job opportunities are different from one European country to another and especially for young people, the situation about the labour market is still very difficult in some countries.
Understanding the skills of the future is essential for shaping education and training policies particularly as labor markets undergoes dynamic transformation, driven by demographic change, digitization, extensive value chains and the increased complexity in work organisation.
Thanks to our project, students were given an impulse to learn the 21st century skills, such as problem solving skills, communication skills, analytical skills, good understanding of economics markets, enjoying working as a team member as well as independently.
Originally this project should have included 5LTT meetings with at minimum 4 students and 2 teachers from each school, allocated in hosting families. It was true for the first 4LTT meetings in Turkey, Portugal, Norway and Germany, but not for the last one in Italy (May 2020),because of Covid Pandemia.
We asked and obtained one year refferal, but it wasn’t enough and the Italian meeting (June2021) turned into a virtual online meeting.
In the meetings there was the information section about the most important career opportunities in the near future of each country.
Students got in touch with training courses and job opportunities, especially linked to important economic fields.
They were also taken to University to know the way they can apply for and what exams may be taken in English.
Students were also shown how to create their Europass Curriculum Vitae and their language passport online and they all did it even if it was impossible for some counties to upload them into the website for privacy reasons.
One month before every meetings, the hosting school had to point the most important economic activity of its country with the best growth perspectives in the near future as well as some environmental problems linked to it. Consequently the involved teachers had to create two international groups of students (each group with 10 students) sharing ideas online, looking for problem solutions, preparing a PPT about their work to be presented the last day of the meeting.
Surprisingly there were also very interesting OXFORD DEBATE at the end of the presentations between the two groups about their works and their different solutions and in the end of all these activities students achieved the following goals:
a network for students to be lifelong contact for the future, to share ideas/experience even if living wherever they want;
a website http://www.our bridge .eu/ where all the activities of the meetings have been uploaded and all the materials are free for download.
A poster of each meeting
A booklet about every step to do if you want to apply for university or start a business in each country involved in this project
Creative activities issued from these international meetings
PPTs.
In the meeting in Italy, we followed the same pattern of the previous ones. It was a 9-day online meeting organized via Classroom and Meet.
Participating students had the opportunity to learn about the different possibilities offered by the major public universities (Rome La Sapienza, Bologna, the Milan Polytechnic, the University of Pisa, the University for foreigners of Perugia, the Padua university and Ferdinando II of Naples) and by the major private universities (Cattolica, Luiss, Bocconi and John Cabbot), being able to compare curricula, study plans offered, courses and costs to be incurred.
Within the meeting, the most interesting cities from a touristic point of view (Rome, Venice, Florence, Bologna and Naples), some Italian places of greater prestige from a cultural and touristic point of view (Le Cinque Terre, Sicily, Medieval Umbria, the Amalfi Coast and the Dolomites), as well as 4 sites of historical and archaeological interest (Pompeii, Paestum, Ostia Antica and Naples Underground) not far from Formia, which is the headquarters of our Institute.
In this way they also had a virtual look at the beauty and peculiarities of our cities, and we hope they could understand and appreciate the Italian lifestyle.

Project Website

http://our-bridge.eu

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 128747,3 Eur

Project Coordinator

INSTITUTO D’ISTRUZIONE SUPERIORE E.FERMI-G. FILANGIERI & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Nazilli Menderes Anadolu Lisesi
• Tertnes videregående skole
• Albertus-Magnus-Gymnasium Bensberg
• Agrupamento de Escolas de Constância