“Live life, give life. Promoting organ donation and public awareness of transplant research.” Erasmus Project

Project Title

“Live life, give life. Promoting organ donation and public awareness of transplant research.”

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

The project entitled Live Life Then Give Life: stuck between organ donation and stem cells involves the participation of four partners: Spain, Italy, Poland and Turkey. The topic is developed by a scientific, bioethic, philosophical and religious point of view.
The objectives of the project are different and focus on several key factors such as the development of civic, social and intercultural competences; the promotion of innovative solutions to ensure competences acquired through an informal, formal, and non formal learning; the promotion of the internationalisation, the development of the critical mindset, especially considering the cultural and environmental aspect of science; the adoption of an holistic approach in the learning of foreigner languages and the development of ICT skills using them in a creative way.
Thirty-two students and eight teachers will be directly involved in the project, but the activities led at school will interest a major number of students and teachers.
The project activities will be structured in the following way:
1. The first activity is to prepare a questionnaire to give to the students involved in the project, whose aim is to investigate their previous knowledge about the topic.
2. Then the students will be asked to investigate the topic using the methodology of brainstorming, web quest and debating. This activity will increase their knowledge and develop their sensitivity. During this classroom activity, they will look for information in the internet, they will read documents arranged by the teachers and will get in touch with the main associations for organ donation in their countries. Cooperative learning activities about stem cells will be done during this phase.
3. Students will attend conferences, seminars and lectures organised by the school whose aim is give them an holistic vision of the theme proposed by different points of views. Doctors, biologists, philosophers, religious people, common men and women who have received an organ or struggle with this problem will be invited at school to give their support to the project and increase the students’ knowledge of the proplem/topic.
4. Students will be asked to create posters with slogans to be put at school and in town. The best slogan and poster will become the official logo of the project and will be put in the website.
5. Students will create a brochure using softwares like Padlet to promote Organ Donation
6. Students will organise a Donor’s day at school and they will distribute their brochures to disseminate to all the school’s population their work and at the same time to make people aware of the problem. They will also organize a visit in the nearby schools to disseminate their activity.
7.Students will create a website and they will communicate using the twinspace because they will divide tasks and each country will develop a particular aspect of the topic:
scientific: how can stem cells research solve the problem of the lack of organs?
religious: what do the main religions think about organ donation?
bioethical: what are the reasons behind the refusal of families to authorise explant? and how a ops-out law (presumed consent) would be seen by the public opinion?
statistic:survey: how is organ donation approach changed in the last 20 years?
All these activities will be shown and discussed during the transnational learning teaching trainings.
8. Each country will create a video to promote organ donation and this is a competitive part because the best video will be awarded. Students will create an on line survey to vote the best video. All the video will be uploaded on twinspace, youtube and their website so that it can be useful to disseminate their activity as much as possible.
9. Students will be asked to write a script to be performed during their last transnational meeting whose focus is to propose possible solutions according to their knowledge. This part will develop their critical thought, their language skills and their creativity.
The methodology used will be cooperative learning, pair/group work, role playing, brainstorming, web quest and problem solving; all the methologies used are suitable to a student-centred perspective of learning/teaching.
The expected results are not only an increased sensitivity towards the issue of organ donation, but even a concrete involvement of students in the improvement of the good practice of becoming organ donation. The desired impact of the project is to make them Organ Ambassadors outside their schools: in their families, and in all the social agencies they belong to. This project offers many long term advantages such as the annual organisation and celebration of the Organ Donation Day at school may become a common scholar practice. Moreover the project may open an important window on a theme not often debated in society but of fundamental importance. At last all the products realised can contribute to disseminate the project and the topic.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 117741 Eur

Project Coordinator

Zespol Szkol Technicznych nr1 im. Wojciecha Korfantego & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Istituto d’Istruzione Superiore Patini Liberatore
• Instituto Marta Mata
• ADILE MERMERCI ANADOLU LISESI