Being virtuous in a virtual world Erasmus Project

Project Title

Being virtuous in a virtual world

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/environmental responsibility of educational institutions; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship

Project Summary

The title of our project is “Being virtuous in a virtual world” and the participating schools are six: Croatia, Greece,Italy (the coordinator) Poland, Portugal, Spain.The Italian and the Polish schools in a final project meeting of a previous Erasmus Ka2 talked about a possible and further future cooperation in another KA2 project finding out a common problem that teachers in any country daily live and face at school, how to deal with the students’ ab-use of social networks.In Italy this year a National Day against bullying and cyberbullying has been established on 8 February 2020 and the school has organized workshops and meetings with psychologists and competent professionals. Other schools were contacted on eTwinning and they all shared the same interest in the topic, since some of them reported repetitive acts of cyberbullying, of sexting and racism in the use of social media. Racism is a great problem expressed in social media in many countries, expecially in countries which receive the largest number of refugees, such as Sicily and Greece.
The main motivation of this project is to create responsible digital citizens in Europe who use the Internet and social media to share appropriate stories, images, videos and ideas with friends and family, to have a positive digital footprint, to give due credit when sharing an idea, image and video (to respect and be aware of themselves and of the others), to report inappropriate and dangerous online behaviour (cyberbullying, sexting and harassment, hate speech, fake news, acts of racial intolerance).
The objectives to be achieved are:
1. To encourage the strengthening of all participants’ linguistic skills;
2. To promote an understanding and respect of the cultural diversity;
3.To promote responsibility and respect for the rules of civic society encouraging good practices in the use of the web;
4.To increase the awareness of being properly social and the expression of one’s own creativity without being harmful and insensitive towards other people avoiding predjudices especially to minorities.
Activities
First mobility in Poland (8-14 November 2020) only teachers to attend a course and plan the activities of the project.
7-11 December 2020 digital drawing in inkscape to create projects logo and proposing slogans for the project
18-22 January 2021 presenting our school, city and coutry in tools we like the most
14-20 February 2021 (Croatia) mobility with students
19-23 April 2021 preparing videos about what will change in ten years, taking in consideration different aspects of life: human body and brain, economy, finance, robotics, transport
9-15 May 2021(Portugal) mobility with students
18-22 October 2021creating a personal avatar and a national avatar to be compared with the other countries’ avatars in the next mobility thus becoming the international Avatar
7-13 November 2021(Greek) mobility with students
17-21 January 2022 creating a national eSafety manual to be compared with the other countries’ in the next mobility, thus becoming the international manual
6-12 February 2022(Spain) mobility with students
8-14 May 2022(Italy) last mobility with students
All partner institutions are responsible for the cultural programme of the exchange visits to ensure a successful proceeding of the project itself. This means they also look for host families, find resources at school like rooms and technology, organize events, open days at school, meetings with experts.The Italian school assures the good communication (in English) among partners, tackles any problem and is responsible for any decision making. The communication between the project partners is run by means of the social media like Facebook and SKYPE meetings which will be the responsibility of Croatia and eTwinning which will be managed by Portugal. Modern IT based communication is used regularly as needed (emails, WhatsApp, text messages, phone calls).
The Spanish school prepares albums, videos, multimedia presentations and all schools regularly post material to the Facebook page to disseminate our work. The Greek partner will take care of the printing of the e-safety manual and the Polish will collect and evaluate data (texts and photos/videos) on paper, memory sticks and send it to Croatia to put it on the Facebook site.
The objectives will be assessed regularly by using questionnaires for students and teachers (multiple choice and open questions to express their opinions and feelings) to find out about the students’ improving competences in foreign language skills, tests to check the learning process and the benefits from the project. The monitoring of the response of the local community documents the success of the project (e.g. the number of visitors on the website, articles in mass media).
To disseminate the results schools will show handouts, reports, videos on each school websites, publish articles on newspapers and news on local TV, create a Twinspace page and organize Erasmus+ events.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 157835 Eur

Project Coordinator

IIS ESCHILO & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Szkola Podstawowa nr 11 w Olsztynie
• Agrupamento de Escolas do Barreiro
• 3rd GENIKO LYKEIO EGALEO
• OS Gornje Vrapce
• Hermanos de las Escuelas Cristianas – Escuela Profesional La Salle