Get plugged to rural life Erasmus Project

Project Title

Get plugged to rural life

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: Rural development and urbanisation

Project Summary

Don’t you think that rural depopulation is being a major problem nowadays?
After doing some research and meeting other schools in Europe located in rural areas, or areas suffering from depopulation, we’ve come to the opinion that depopulation is a big problem nowadays, specially in the rural areas.
This is the reason why we’ve decided to create this Erasmus+ project. Five schools altogether are going to try to see what causes it and we are also going to fight for our roots and local areas to promote them so they are seen as something good, needed and something that cannot stop existing.
Four out of the five schools taking part in this project are facing this problem, some schools are still very big or located at the outskirts of big cities, as is the case of the Greek school, but if the issue continues as it does now they will turn into small local schools. Other schools are already small schools so if depopulation continues in their area unluckily they will be tend to disappear, and by no means we want this to happen.
The fifth school, located in Poland, is a school that has no depopulation problems at all, so it will act as a role model for the other four schools.
We need to try to face depopulation in rural areas. Rural life has many advantages that we are not conscious of and we need to spread this idea.
We also want people looking back at their roots and ancestors and try to think on the way they lived in the past, their routines as well as benefits, adapting them to our new era where ICTs have such a big influence in our daily life.
We would like to discuss and work on our similarities and differences in terms of ways of living, routines as well as benefits that our areas bring us, promoting personal growth and understanding the importance of certain values such as sense of belonging to our roots and ancestors and the fact that we need to be proud of where we come from.
Europe is one of the most important and powerful continents on Earth, but is not just all abut big cities, or capital cities. We consider that the importance of rural areas producing raw material such as cereals to bake bread, or sun flower seeds to produce oil among others, is essential.
We also would like to discuss and work on the possibilities that Europe bring to the rural areas in order to succeed.
Children from four out of five schools taking part in this project are facing this issue, so we would try to exchange ideas in order to make people of this depopulated areas think it twice before moving onto a bigger city.
The OBJECTIVES we would like to achieve would be the following:
– Promote rural development.
– Research in demographic data.
– Question what is causing decrease if rural population.
– Analyse what consequences has had the fact of rural depopulation.
– Propose different solutions in order to prevent this situation.
– Promote inclusion among students taking part in the project as well as the rest of the community.
– Appreciate the environment where our schools are located.
– Expand the sense of belonging to the European Union.
– Motivate students to learn and share their knowledge with other people.
The STUDENTS participating in this project will be in their last years or Primary Education. In total we will have approximately 125/130 hundred students, 25/30 students per school.
The ACTIVITIES would be divided into six different blocks according y to all the things we want to cover with this project. Here you can see the different blocks.
B1; We get to know each other.
B2; Let’s look back.
B3; Demographically analysis.
B4; Nowadays resources.
B5; How can we help?
B6; Conclussions.
This project will be based on an eclectic METHODOLOGY, we want our students to be very concerned about the depopulation issue and all the disadvantages that it carries. That is why we want the project to be hands on. We are going to be based in an active and constructivist methodology. Gamification is also going to be something we are going to use. We seek that ours students became critical thinkers as well as creative within their ideas. We don’t want them to take things for granted but to fight for what they think is best for the and their areas and societies.
Regarding RESULTS AND IMPACT, different methods of evaluation will be used in terms of students; Kahoot!, Quizzes, Plickers or KWL Charts among others. In terms of teachers evaluating the project, rubrics will be used. We will evaluate the project block by block and then the project will be evaluated overall at the end of it. As a RESULT of the project, we want the students and the whole communities to be aware of the importance of the rural areas. If we let this areas be extinguished a big sense of identity would be lost.
Our most important LONGER TERM BENEFIT would be to make students be proud of the area where they live, so in the future they want to develop their lives there, by creating a family or an enterprise, for example, trying to combat rural depopulation.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 130035 Eur

Project Coordinator

CEIP DOÑA MENCÍA DE VELASCO & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Centro pradine mokykla
• Szkola Podstawowa nr 2 z Oddzialami Dwujezycznymi
• 4 DIMOTIKO PEFKON
• Scoala Gimnaziala Mihail Sadoveanu