Overcoming limits and boundaries with football Erasmus Project

Project Title

Overcoming limits and boundaries with football

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: Social dialogue; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

Title of the project: Overcoming limits and boundaries with football
Type of project: Ka 229 – School partnership
Project partner: Höhere Technische Bundeslehranstalt Wien 10 (Österreich)
Escola Secundária Dr. Augusto César da Silva Ferreira, Rio Maior (Portugal)
Project duration: 09/2020 – 08/2021
Project coordination: Marvin Truttmann (HTL Wien 10), Maria Reis (Escola Secundária Dr. Augusto César da Silva Ferreira)

Facing the increasing tasks of vocational secondary schools this project tries to improve foreign language skills by laying stress an them to pass successfully the final A-level-exam. Combined sports and languages issues target not only an intensive embedding of the soccer team´s students. Beyond these particular participants many more students of both partnerschools will be included for improving their foreign language skills.
The didactical conception is based on soccer enthusiastic students´ promotion (most students have migration background) for getting towards sustainably better foreign language competences connected with the sportive project´s content.
Concerning the sportive aspects talent scouting, training exercises, championship and tournament participation, a training camp as well are planned to take place at the partnership school´s location abroad.
In addition to sports activities taught in English, crossover school lessons in other subjects will be held, as well. Soccer-content will not only be embedded in English lessons, but also in subjects like history, geography, political education, social and human resources, business and law, all of them taught in CLIL.

Besides this primary goal a lot of further (horizontal and sectorial) priorities can be expected.

Some of them are:
• Soccer, a tool to overcome barriers and boundaries
• Awareness for shared values
• Promotion of team spirit for identifying with the team and school for a better school success
• Personal development by integration
• Equal opportunities for immigrant students
• Promotion of intercultural skills, exchange of experience

Goals going beyond:
• Role-model-effect of the project
Inspiration for students to achieve academic and sporting success
Making fellow teachers keen on future Erasmus+ projects
• Contribution to the European development plan
• Attracting the school location

In order to emphasize the sustainability of this project, it is pointed out that during the project, teaching units will be developed in a wide variety of subjects (English, sport, CLIL (history, geography, economics and law, political education, etc.) that will be used beyond the duration of the project. In addition, a trilingual dictionary (German-Portuguese-English) with relevant football terms is to be developed.
A final project video and a digital portfolio created in the course of the project will not only serve to document the project. In addition to various websites of both schools, these digital project results are to be presented, for example, at open days, school fairs, etc. to make the two school locations more attractive.
All experience and knowledge gained will of course flow into future teaching and project planning beyond the end of the project.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 0 Eur

Project Coordinator

HTL Wien 10 & Country: AT

Project Partners

• Escola Secundária Dr. Augusto César da Silva Ferreira, Rio Maior