Nurturing the new force of Erasmus Champions in School Education Erasmus Project

Project Title

Nurturing the new force of Erasmus Champions in School Education

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: Cooperation between educational institutions and business; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development)

Project Summary

The ERA4SE project is a 24months initiative fostering synergies in 4 countries (Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece), aiming to boost schools motivation and capacity to successfully generate, participate, implement and valorize Erasmus+. In this endeavor, school partners have strategically entered in regional collaborations with official Authorities for Teachers Continuous Professional Development (TCPDAs) and experienced Consultancy companies, with the goal to pilot test a supportive methodology establishing within the schools, teams of teachers/superheroes that can cope with the Erasmus+ program, navigate the opportunities, translate their needs and the surrounding ecosystem´s needs into projects and participate in international initiatives generating meaningful impact for the school and the local community. For this, it will develop resources, tools and courses that guide step-by-step the school to become an exemplary role model that unleashes the transformative power of international collaborative initiatives under the Erasmus+.
The project is founded on the direct needs of the school community update the profile of education staff into “superheroes” – professionals who operate in the compendium of EDUCATIONAL SCIENCE and PROJECT MANAGEMENT to initiate, lead and valorize meaningful initiatives (locally and internationally).
To achieve the above, ERA4SE will act supportive for the capacitation of a progenic team of educators -teaching staff and managers- from the four countries (Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece) and supply them with the missing skills (in all countries, project management and Erasmus+ opportunities is not part of the ITE curricula), also following up close the piloting of the resources. Going one step further, it will implement the capacitation as Continuous Professional Development course and multiply in national level through the official collaboration of regional teacher training authorities.
A focus point is also the intention to facilitate the recognition of the learning outcomes that occur during students mobilities, in line with the national curricula, and accelerate the motivation of the educational community to access these opportunities and provide them for their students (as they won´t be seen anymore as extracurricular actions).
Following the above, the project intervention focuses around the goal to develop educational resources to capacitate, courses to teach and support material to guide the day-to-day operation for the practicioner dedicated to a bifold role of Educator and Project manager active in glocal level.
Working towards this, a set of IOs will be deployed:
O1 – Founding the Erasmus+ Superteams, that will develop and test innovative resources that deeply capacitate and guide step-by-step the schools to become exemplary role models that unleash the transformative power of international collaborative initiatives (Erasmus+).
O2 – Preparing for the project challenges that will deliver detailed materials, guides and training to develop even further the ERA4SE school teams’ superpowers according to the most updated methodologies for Project Management&Coordination/ Project Implementation/ Project Valorization, merging theory with the reality of the school environment.
O3 – Framing the mobility knowledge that will deliver a detailed framework for the recognition of the learning experiences during the mobilities and guidelines for the educators that want to organize and assess the knowledge gained for the students.
Furthermore, the IOs above described will be reinforced by two additional project activities: Two partners training activities (C1&C2), and an international summerschool (C3) as part of the capacity building programmes; and a set of multiplier events that will spark the interest of key target groups, bring them onboard on the ERA4SE proposed intervention and gather the support of leaders in Key positions that will allow the multiplication in other schools/regions/nations.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 226430 Eur

Project Coordinator

Agrupamento de Escolas José Estevão & Country: PT

Project Partners

• INOVA+ – INNOVATION SERVICES, SA
• INSTITUTO DE EDUCACIÓN SECUNDARIA “VILLA DE ABARÁN”
• ISTITUTO ISTRUZIONE SECONDARIA SUPERIORE ALESSANDRO VOLTA
• 3rd GYMNASIUM OF NIKAIA
• EUROCREA MERCHANT SRL
• CPR Región de Murcia
• AINTEK SYMVOULOI EPICHEIRISEON EFARMOGES YPSILIS TECHNOLOGIAS EKPAIDEFSI ANONYMI ETAIREIA