Re-imagine what is possible Erasmus Project

Project Title

Re-imagine what is possible

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: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

With this project we strive for our students and staff members to go beyond what is known. Even though the aims in professions have been evolving fast in the past years, our educational systems just do not seem to be ready to adapt to the needs of future citizens. We can foresee the end of “routine jobs” and everything non routine to become valuable: Imagination, creativity, ethics, empathy. That´s where education should be going.
We should guide our students towards different ways of learning in class, far from the classic “lecture-teacher” model, like: Observing and learning from peers, Project and Place Based Learning, placing the human at the core, and technology being just a tool that we need to understand in the right way. Another innovative approach is trying to use the so-called “Basic Meta Skills”, related to the already well-known “Soft skills”. What we strive for implementing this project is an innovative educational system, with the following possibilities:

School in the past and present – School in the future

Specialise students – Develop creativity
Do repetitive tasks – Teach how to solve unpredictable problems
Follow orders – Motivate critical thinking and ownership
Promote competition (grades) – Promote team work
GOAL: FIND A JOB – GOAL: USE THESE SKILLS FOR A LONG-TERM PROFESSIONAL LIFE

The motivating and engaging tasks will be done in two years’ time by hundreds of students in Norway, Spain, Italy and The Netherlands. The students will be challenged to show their peers where they are from, who they are and what they do. Sharing common values, civic engagement and participation are therefore among the project’s main focusses. A total amount of 96 students will join the mobilities, travelling abroad and, as the mobilities are based on stays in host families, an equal amount of students and their families will participate as hosts. This oftentimes causes the students to truly learn and appreciate the local life of fellow Europeans and, hopefully, this will result in a life-long understanding and friendship. During these two years 4 student mobilities will take place according to a certain pattern, where the mobilities are related to an overarching subject, linked to the qualities of each school:

C1 Innovation and prototyping
C2 Soft skills, service project-approach and project-based learning
C3 Art, design and history
C4 Sustainability

During every mobility the main objective is for the students to learn peer-to-peer and to develop their soft skills with e.g. project-based learning . The second mobility will particularly zoom in on these subjects, when the Spanish partner will arrange workshops with professionals in the field. One of the key objectives is that teachers will inspire other teachers during the mobilities. During the project a research group will be put in action. The participating students will actively work as teachers’ assistants, leading up to each mobility, creating new approaches to the classical way of teaching and learning. Besides being assistants these students are tutors for other students in a peer-to-peer learning setting. Schools will promote a multidisciplinary approach among participant teachers, and there will be a focus to develop in students the 21st century skills: Communication, Collaboration, Critical thinking and Creativity.

Amongst the expected results are:
A. Improvement of the student´s abilities to use foreign languages, media and ICT;
B. Development of the work in teams’ skills, especially focused on project-based tasks and the creation of international teams;
C. A list of activities to be developed by students, that can become part of the school´s curricula, wherever possible;
D. Creating rings of future cooperation among the partner schools in several ways, including multilateral associations;
E. Providing teachers with a real experience in the international educational systems and subjects / school management in every country, creating a wider point of view to discuss and innovate;
F. Designing educational materials to let other schools take advantage of the tasks created, the methods used, and the results of the learning activities.

The improved competences will profit each student’s career in their work lives as well as in their private sector and they will be encouraged to work in other European countries. The employers that the pupils are going to work for in future will profit from those competences too. We really would like to share all of this via all kinds of dissemination tools on a local, regional, national and international level. The project’s Twinspace, will be the center of Relearnt. Outcomes and results of all activities to do with Relearnt will be presented on the project website and best practices will be highlighted. The website will be a database of new lesson materials and evaluation tools. By sharing, learning from and looking at each other and by keeping the network alive: we believe the effect will be life-long.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 122784 Eur

Project Coordinator

SintLucas & Country: NL

Project Partners

• KRISTIANSAND KOMMUNE
• IES Maestro Juan de Avila
• Liceo Classico Statale “G. Carducci”