Not all classes have walls Erasmus Project

Project Title

Not all classes have walls

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: Creativity and culture; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

The main aim of our project “Active Students” is creating challenges for our students to be more active during the learning process and integrate the theoretical knowledge into practice by taking them out of the class. And also, our project mostly focuses on creating equal chances for students with educational, economic and family disadvantages and also schools in disadvantaged areas. And, according to this aim, the partners three of whom have no Erasmus+ project experience will give priority students with disadvantages to be chosen for the project activities. So, we will able to create equal chances for students from different levels of society to reach opportunities to develop 21st-century skills and increase social inclusion.
In order to reach these aims, we have divided our project into two parts; local and international activities during which at least 100 students between 11 and 15 will have active roles.
The local activities will be conducted throughout our etwinning project and they will develop our students’ skills of taking responsibility by making them share the house courses and do their daily activities on their own. During these activities, especially boy students will be given tasks. And for our girl students, we will have special activities through our etwinning project and they will join activities that are regarded as “man jobs” such as carpentry, masonry, fixing leaks which will support gender equality. And also, our etwinning project will help us reach partners because they will lead and follow their students.
And international activities will be carried on under the names of cultural heritages, nature, environment protection, traditional jobs, and water. During all these mobilities, students will be active learners and they will work in international teams during activities such as painting some heritage objects, designing costumes, recycling, gardening, preparing composts, wood carving, making ice-cream and pasta.
Also, during these mobilities, our teachers will be accompanying persons and they will join different workshops and seminars on thinking web 2. tools, Web 3. tools, creating vocabulary books, distance learning tools, and creative teachers so that they will meet and learn new teaching tools.
After these planned activities, we will have students who have developed self-esteem, foreign language, ICT and communication skills and an increased feeling of respect towards others. And also, students with disadvantages will have a stronger feeling of acceptance in society. Some of our students will discover their hidden talents and our teachers will refresh their motivation. And also, the developments will create better education environments at our schools and parents will develop a healthier communication with their schools and children.
And these developments will be followed via pre and post-project questionnaires, pre and post-mobility exams, regular vocabulary exams, meetings, quizzes, and interviews. And also, we will have checklists, workbooks, deadlines, Friday and first day meetings, padlets, interviews to evaluate our project.
During local and international activities, we will have some products such as paintings of some heritages, miniature physical reproductions of the most representative monuments, popular costumes, brochures, short film, flower posts, vocabulary games, a machine to depurate water.
These products will be shared on different social media platforms to make our project known.
As target groups, we have decided groups and ways to reach them. For example, students and teachers who won’t join mobilities will be invited to join our questionnaires, competitions, and seminars. Also, they can follow our project via project corners, brochures, and posters. And also, on the last of each mobility, we will have a mobility exhibition for them so they will be able to observe all the activities and products and have chats with participants.
Students with disadvantages will join the excursions that will be organized before each mobility by the host country to make students have prior knowledge about these places.
As an important group, we want to reach parents via our etwinning project, seminars, and workshops on learning to learn, effective communication between students and parents. Also, they will host foreign students and our Romanian partner will invite their parents to “Eco-Fashion show” during Romania’s mobility.
Teachers in our area and local authorities will be invited to the seminars and workshops. And our younger students will join a workshop named “muddy hands” to create models of some important cultural heritages.
We believe that our project will be a chance for partners especially the ones who don’t have Erasmus experience to understand and develop European identity and vision. After the project ends, partners will apply for the Etwinning label and Eco-School and this project will be the first step of the possible Erasmus+ projects.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 175515 Eur

Project Coordinator

Zakladna skola Stefana Smalika & Country: SK

Project Partners

• Scoala Gimnaziala Alexandru Ciucurencu
• SEHITLER ORTAOKULU
• Osnovno uchilishte “Ivan Vazov”
• OU Goce Delcev – Mogila
• Istituto comprensivo Lelia Caetani Sermoneta