Experiential travel for creative education Erasmus Project

Project Title

Experiential travel for creative education

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: Creativity and culture; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

The “Experiential travel for creative education” project reunites partners from Lithuania, Italy, Romania, Turkey and Greece, and is addressed to students who are 10 – 13 years old. The partner schools compared their development plans and the following common points were identified: giving a European dimension to the school, increasing the quality of the educational process, raising the attractiveness of classes, developing teaching methods, developing students’ key competences, increasing cooperation with teachers from other European countries and stakeholders at a local, regional and national level.
The main aim of the “Experiential travel for creative education” is to foster social inclusion among 250 students from 5 European schools during a 2 years project.
The project objectives are to encourage students from 5 EU schools to have an empathetic behavior, reinforce mutual understanding and successful coexistence, promote the use of project-based learning and facilitate intercultural dialogue.
The project combines classroom education with outdoor adventures, international project meetings, virtual exchanges and a wide range of learning techniques.
The planned 5 LTTA meetings will include activities that involve students’ choice, real-world scenarios, authentic audiences and cooperation. A team formed by 4 students and 2 teachers from each country will attend the project transnational meetings. The activities are designed to help students’ develop interpersonal skills through cooperation and boost their sense of personal independence. We will use PBL to encourage students’ active participation which means that students will have the freedom to arrive at conclusions through their own process. They will explore, question and make their own tests to come to conclusion on their own. The meetings are divided into topics (European Cultural Heritage is our common treasure, Sport unites pupils, Environmental challenges, Digital citizenship for pupils, The power of pictures) and there are activities aiming to develop participants’ communication and team skills, empathy, critical thinking, curiosity, collaboration, leadership and adaptability.
We intend to use project-based learning (PBL) as project methodology because is a dynamic approach designed to engage students in the process of investigation of real life problems and to encourage them in the process of experiencing learning by doing and by discovering. In grappling with authentic problems, students bridge the gap between theoretical knowledge and real-life experiences. PBL is a wonderful opportunity for students to develop their key competences through educational travel which incorporates multiple subjects. By removing students from the boundaries of a classroom, students are determined to use multi-faceted skills, establishing a basis for PBL.
Our project is student-centered, empowering each and every student to trust him/herself more and become aware that by working together we can achieve great things. Working with their peers will improve communication, interpersonal and social skills.
Reuniting people from different geographical areas, people with different socialeducational-cultural background and who work for reaching common goals is a unique opportunity for encouraging pro-social behavior, social inclusion, intercultural dialogue, communication, social cohesion, mutual understanding, successful coexistence and empathy. This will also contribute to understand stereotypical thinking and its side effects, decrease discrimination and racism.
The diversity of activities will contribute to increase participants’ communication skills, cross-cultural understanding, creativity, critical thinking, adaptability to new
environments and flexibility for working in international mixed teams. Teachers’ will develop their professional competences and interest in continuing to develop their teaching skills. They will gain knowledge for expanding the school curricula and give it an international dimension, which will have a positive impact on the
school teaching and learning activities.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 131160 Eur

Project Coordinator

Vilkaviskio Salomejos Neries pagrindine mokykla & Country: LT

Project Partners

• Mihriban Emin Günel Ortaokulu
• 12th Primary School of Drama
• ISTITUTO COMPRENSIVO CAMERA
• Scoala Gimnaziala Romanu Braila