On Your Bike! Erasmus Project

Project Title

On Your Bike!

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

At the start our intention was to encourage children and families to cycle more to reduce congestion, air pollution and to make our towns and cities sustainable attractive places to live in.
Throughout the second half of this project, Covid-19 has dramatically impacted the things we wanted to do. For example, pupil and staff travel has not been possible since March 2020 and school closures have made in-class teaching difficult and often impossible because of lengthy school closures.
Indeed, many of our other Erasmus+ projects have found it difficult to keep everyone on board and keep the project going. In the case of this project, however, the reverse has happened. The results have been incredible with lockdowns providing parents and young people the opportunity to get on their bikes and explore.
Parents and carers have engaged in school led projects to get their children fit and healthy whilst they, themselves, have enjoyed time with their children and rediscovered the pleasures of getting on a bike.
As planned, our young people have campaigned and encouraged more pupils to cycle to school, thus reducing traffic around schools and improving pupils’ health and wellbeing through more physical activity.
Teachers have worked collaboratively to develop lessons to support campaigns and further encourage the use of bicycles by pupils, parents and staff, and successfully embedded the promotion of using bicycles across school curricular.

The project plan needed dramatically altering as a result of the Coronavirus, however, we have continued to work towards meeting our 3 project strands:
1 – Upskilling Teachers, Pupils and Engaging the Community
2- Encouraging more pupils to ride to school
3 – Action- Community Project

We have produced a number of Intellectual Outputs including classroom materials and case studies as part of a thorough impact review.

Other activities have included study visits. We managed to achieve 3 face-to-face Transnational Project Management meetings (TPM), 3 Learning Teaching and Training opportunities (LTT), 2 FOR staff and 1 for pupils. After that, all subsequent visits were cancelled because of the pandemic.

Also cancelled were the multiplier events. Although dissemination has taken place and some multiplier activity has taken place, the full multiplier events could not be completed as planned.

The participants in this project were:

14 Schools
4 Local Authorities/Regional Public Bodies
2 Education/teacher/research centres

The vision of the project was ambitious but has not been unachievable despite Covid-19 restrictions, for which all participants can be very proud.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 321833 Eur

Project Coordinator

COUNTY COUNCIL OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF CARDIFF & Country: UK

Project Partners

• CFR de Ferrol
• Amalie Skram videregående skole
• Langhaugen videregående skole
• TOROSLAR ILCE MILLI EGITIM MUDURLUGU
• Pirireis Ilkokulu
• CEIP A Solaina
• HORDALAND FYLKESKOMMUNE