Interaction Erasmus Project

Project Title

Interaction

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: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Project Summary

INTERACTION Talk to me, I’m here!

Effective Communication Skills for the European Youth of the XXI Century

The project’s aim is to improve students’ capability to use a range of communicative modes in a international, intergenerational and working life context
The most relevant objective of the project is to improve the level of key competences and skills with special regard to the labor market including communication, digital and soft skills.
The project offers students possibilities to improve their communicative skills and to use foreign languages face-to-face during theme weeks and experiences of verbal and emotional communication in different cultures. While the students explore and research communication aspects during the activity sections, they also practise social codes and networking and thus develope social communication skills like networking and thus prepare for ever-changing study and worklife demands.

The countries involved have been selected on the basis of cultural differences. The geographical differencies, distancies and different cultural backgrounds guarantee that the the range of communication modes will be discussed and processed widely.

The project is based on Deep Learning Competencies, so called The 6 C’s.
1.Critical thinking
2. Creativity
3. Collaboration
4. Communication
5. Citizenship
6.Character

The themes of 6 C’s are to be processed in activity sections that include the visiting week, preparations tasks, Etwinning meetings, evaluation and dissemination. The activity section have been planned in order to offer students possibilities to improve a wide range of communicative modes on the basis of the 6 C’s:

Staff training event 10/2020 (3 days)
Tools and methods for teachers: two teachers/school
– moderns digital solutions
– evaluation tools for key competencies and self-evaluation
– labor market integration models
– Cross-curricular themes/courses in schools: how to integrate different school subjects in order to developing basic skills and key competencies

Students mobilities 2020-2022: 6 students and two teachers from each school (5 days)

Activity Section 1: 01/2021 Spain: IESPatacona: Disinformation and its impact of students’ wellbeing/ Critical thinking, Collaboration

-Disinformation and Fake News: journalism
-Mental Health issues,
-social media

Activity Section 2: 05/2021 Finland: Vaskivuoren lukio: Soft skills/ Creativity and Collaboration
-intercultural and intergenerational communication
-body language, emotional intelligence
-performance skills
– different age groups

Activity Section 3 09/2021 France: France, Lycée Cordouan Royan: Communication in the workplace and at work/ Collaboration, Citizenship and Character
-students in the future as future communicating coworkers
-competencies of labor market

Activity Section 4 04/2022 Slovenia, Gimnazija Franceta Prešerna: Business communication / Job interview / Collaboration, Citizenship and Character
-job interview
-competencies of labor market,
-entrepreneurship and active citizenship among young people

The main project outcomes, published in a multimedia digital form:
– an e-guide with advice how to successfully apply for a job
– a collection of acquired skills at international labor market
– a job interview film as an example
– documented knowledge how to achieve a structured professional presentation
– documentation of written, oral and media communication skills needed in working life
– tutorials about following themes: fake news, social media’s role and impact in students’ life, emotional intelligence, nonverbal communication, communication with different age groups
– an public event in the hosting school for all students

All students of the project contribute to the outcomes (pictures, texts, video clips, podcasts). As its best this outcome serve in future as a collection of ideas and best pedagogical practises for both international upper secondary projects but also for pedagogics of communication education.
Students interested in projects fill a Europass application including Curriculum vitae and cover letter. At the end of activity section, students get an Europass Mobility Diploma.

Long term benefits:
-future exchange possibilities: encourages students to apply for studies of degree at European universities and to take part in Erasmus+ exchange programmes
-prepares students for international positions in worklife
-creates a pedagogical development network between the schools involved in the project
-Shared best practices and the main project outcomes can be used as learning materials and pedagogic models for teachers
-enables the schools to create also smaller-scale cross-curricula practices also in future – between the schools and between school subjects
-Creates awareness of Etwinning, Europass and Europass Mobility Diploma generally
-Europass as a portfolio for the students’ competencies gives a concrete tool for students to make their skills visible and recognizable

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 110755 Eur

Project Coordinator

Vaskivuoren lukio & Country: FI

Project Partners

• LYCEE DES METIERS DU TOURISME CORDOUAN ROYAN
• Gimnazija Franceta Preserna
• IES LA PATACONA