Hand to Hand – Together in Europe Erasmus Project

Project Title

Hand to Hand – Together in Europe

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage; Access for disadvantaged; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Project Summary

“Hand to hand – Together in Europe” is a two year project which will bring together 5 European schools: Romania, Italy, Latvia, Turkey and Portugal.The work plan is based on promoting and developing students’ acquisition of skills and competences, enhancing social inclusion and cultural diversity. It will give students, aged between 12 and 15 years old, a chance to learn about the other countries through the means of literature, history, national art, folklore, some unique traditional rituals and natural wonders.The direct international cooperation will offer the participants the possibility to expand communication networks, to exchange ideas and educational methods and to create tangible outputs.Most of the project’s activities will be concentrated within 5 clubs, each of them developing a certain aspect of a country’s natural heritage: “The magical world of fairy tales”, “It’s us” -songs and dances, “The whisper of the past builds up future”, “Nature wonders”,” Art heritage”.
The objectives of the project are based on the needs identified by all partners as follows: promoting cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue, supporting the inclusion of students at risk of marginalization, internationalizing the school curriculum for school success and education for life, improving communication in English as a foreign language, fostering interest for self-development in a multicultural society.
The goals we want to achieve are related to the selected priorities. One of these priorities is to take care of own patrimony.By studying it we can discover diversity and we can initiate an intercultural dialogue about the things we have in common.Therefore, the students will learn to work in a multicultural environment, build team work skills, do research and explore.The project will also give them the opportunity to establish links at school level, community level, regional, national European and international level. In our project, we will develop the transferable competences (competences for the Europass CV) and the personal skills of the students: good communication skills, team spirit, initiative spirit, flexibility, ability to solve problems, computer skills.
The club-based learning method suggested in this project will contribute to the social inclusion of pupils, reducing the phenomenon of school drop-out and discrimination.A strategic objective of the project is to develop the key competences of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds.During the project activities, language adaptation will take place at different levels of understanding, especially for people with special needs who will use media support.The new technologies will improve students’ quality of life, implicitly, of people with special educational needs.
The results to be produced are multiple and will be a valuable source of good practices examples and interactive materials that can be used to promote the European values. All schools in the project agreed to use well known platforms to increase the visibility of our project. Each school in the project will create a profile on the eTwinning platform. They will also upload the project products on the Erasmus+ Project Results Platform.All schools will share the final version of the eTwinning project page and Erasmus+ Project Results Platform, on their own school sites and on social media channels.Each partner will ensure the transparency of the selection, the principle of equal opportunities will be respected and conflicts of interest will be avoided.The activity within the clubs will be based on peer-to-peer learning.
This international collaboration is expected to have a positive impact and bring satisfaction to all participating organizations, students, teachers, parents, stakeholders and local authorities, no matter if they are directly or indirectly linked to the projects’ activities.Strengthening schools’ European dimension and improving their image locally, improving teachers’ social and organizational competences which contributre to their professional development, arising students’ interest in other European countries and their cultures, developing a more positive attitude of parents toward school and toward European values, fostering closer ties with local authorities, cultural institutions and companies shows the positive impact that the project will have on all parts involved.
Throughout the project students, teachers and community members involved will become more aware of their own national heritage and identity and will understand how their country fits in with the European Union as a whole.The visual aids created by the students will be used for various out of class activities designed to heighten the awareness of local heritage among community members.In this way, the students will help educate many people outside the school about the importance of keeping knowledge of each other alive.That’s how they will present active citizenship participation.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 127583 Eur

Project Coordinator

Liceul Tehnologic “Mihai Eminescu” Dumbraveni & Country: RO

Project Partners

• Rigas 22. vidusskola
• ISTITUTO COMPRENSIVO G. PIERLUIGI
• Agrupamento de Escolas de Samora Correia
• Sehit Ali Aksoy Ortaokulu