Framework for Success: Preparing youth for a competent life in a fast-changing Europe Erasmus Project

Project Title

Framework for Success: Preparing youth for a competent life in a fast-changing Europe

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: Enterprise, industry and SMEs (incl. entrepreneurship); Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage

Project Summary

What is it today’s youth need of skills, knowledge and mindset to master a Europe of tomorrow? This project aims to deal with this question and thus give our students a framework for success; to prepare them for a competent life in a fast-changing Europe. Focusing on key competences within S-K-M (Skills – Knowledge-Mindset) will bring out the voices of both our students, but also the voices representing innovation, culture, businesses and education.
As partner schools, we have thoughts about what the content of S-K-M should be, but are they aligned with the students’ thoughts? One of the strongest motivational factors in learning is “relevance”. Making this project relevant for the students and their future is important. Through socio-educational development and personal development the project intends to make the students employable in their future. To interact and collaborate with, peers has shown to be highly effective, and leaves a lasting impact. Our students will be working with the theme of the project through different sub-titles, and they will be doing this both at their own schools, through e-Twinning and meetings at the different participating schools.
The activities, the meetings, will all be dealing with the overall heading for the project, but in the light of relevant national/regional challenges.
Organizing the project in this way, giving the students the opportunity to travel will give them knowledge, insight and an awareness of everyday life for their generation in different parts of Europe.
The partners in this projects represents different school sizes, different corners of Europe (Norway, The Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Denmark and Spain) some are urban and some are rural; but they all have in common that they are smaller areas (population) within their region/country. Being a smaller area might influence how one think abouts the future. It may also influence what opportunities a young European has, or believes s-/he has. Creating an arena for students from different countries to meet and learn from each other gives not only a broadened perspective on Europe, but may also provide new insight to ones own home town.The diversity of Europe and the opportunities given through meeting different cultures are at the core of this project. A project aiming to show the idea of unity through diversity, and thus give students from across Europe a common understanding of what is expected from them in their future.
Each meeting will provide opportunities to learn from each other, and it will encourage cooperation and entrepreneurial thinking – in its widest form. The activities in the project are developed to strengthen the students’ awareness of possibilities and opportunities. The underlying common thought, throughout all the activities is to help our students becoming competent and contributing citizens of Europe of tomorrow.
It is a defined goal that the project will give the partner schools an overview of possible ways of focusing on, and teaching in the field of “how to prepare for the future?”. Each meeting will at its completion provide a rough-guide to S-K-M within the specific theme focused on. Based on the reflections and findings made by the students,we will hopefully be able to draw some conclusions on what the students themselves consider to important and expected from them in their future.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 146882 Eur

Project Coordinator

Høyanger vidaregåande skule & Country: NO

Project Partners

• IIS Rolando da Piazzola
• RSG Broklede
• Frederiksborg Gymnasium og HF
• Elisabeth-Langgässer-Gymnasium
• IES Botikazar/ Botikazar BHI