Vier Länder – ein Meer Erasmus Project

Project Title

Vier Länder – ein Meer

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 : Strategic Partnerships for Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Environment and climate change; Agriculture, forestry and fisheries

Project Summary

In the first place our project was focused on interaction and cultural exchange of youth from different countries around the Baltic Sea. Young people from our four schools already met before the project started. In workshops and during free time activities they gained experience, swapped ideas and discovered more common sense than differences. Our project supported children to develop personal initiative and a sense of commitment and responsibility, to reduce prejudices and fears of “otherness” and to strengthen tolerance towards different cultures.
The participating schools were: Spoleczne Gimnazjum Jezykowe in Lebork, Poland (language oriented school, which encourages and supports talents, creative powers and social commitment of its students), Porin suomalaisen yhteislyseon koulu in Pori, Finland (art oriented school with special classes in music and art, language oriented with an international class), Ventspils Secondary School nr.2 (Ventspils 2. Vidusskola) in Ventpils, Latvia (natural science and language oriented school that teaches a Russian speaking minority; encourages and supports tolerance and liberal-minded thinking) and Regionale Schule”Adolph Diesterweg” in Stralsund, Germany (European school , which promotes the European idea and thinking among its students and which lives social integration, openness and tolerance).
In the course of the project work we organized four internatio transnational project meetings that we used to work on various products and to carry out activities and excursions to learn more about the host country. In the course of the last two years the following products were completed:
– pictures and stories for the Baltic Sea album were created
– word collection and matching artworks for the Baltic Sea Dictionary were arranged
– making of the film about fishermen in Leba
– Baltic Sea Song ”Save entire world” composed, produced and performed
– the NABU Crane centre in Groß Mohrdorf provided 2 cranes with transmitters in Latvia, data is given to our project
– recorded crane data was analysed and a crane diary was written
– a book with fish recipes was arranged
– thousands of cranes were folded and provided with wishes for luck
– the action “Promise through a stone” was carried out
– a column in the building of RegS “Adolph Diesterweg” was decorated with crane motives
– a common Baltic Sea Calendar with photos from all participating countries was arranged
– music festivals in all four countries were collected and described
So the project could offer the participants long-running skills and qualifications on communicative and personal level. This enables our young people to treat our environment with respect and to show tolerance towards other people. One of our most important goals was to support children to develop individual initiative and willingness to work on long-term projects. We believe that we could achieve this aim according to a group of students at our school. The involved students were able to reduce prejudices and fears of “otherness” and learned about other cultures. They made friends and are still in contact with them. Even former students remember the experiences they had. They had a great impact on their school life. In addition to the development of language skills our project was always focused on the environmental aspect, according to the Baltic Sea as the linking ocean. So the Erasmus project played an essential part on our students’ way from school to professional life. We are convinced that they will handle nature more respectfully and that they will act open-minded and tolerant.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 88500 Eur

Project Coordinator

Regionale Schule “Adolph Diesterweg” Stralsund & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Spoleczne Gimnazjum Jezykowe LTO
• Ventspils Secondary School nr.2 (Ventspils 2.vidusskola)
• Porin suomalaisen yhteislyseon koulu