FLIP&MOVIE Erasmus Project

Project Title

FLIP&MOVIE

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 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

“FLIP&MOVIE” project arose from the need to find solutions to the problem of poor reading comprehension on behalf of the pre-adolescents and adolescents, it was highlighted in dierent occasions at national and international levels. The project wanted to experiment incisive ways to encourage reading and communicative skills and to develop digital and media literacy in pupils because these skills are essential in today’s life for the formation of the critical thinking and the building of an active and conscious citizen. It also wanted to continue and widen the European project Comenius Regio “Leg@mi di parole” coordinated by the Regional Direction of Abruzzo and to give continuity to “Class Smart Future” project promoted in Italy by Samsung in collaboration with a University Network in which the innovative teaching methodology of EAS (Learning Episodes Located) is taught. The partnership was built involving schools with European design experiences which are active in the eTwinning Action, open to innovation and cooperation, with a common interest in the theme.
The Istituto Comprensivo Pescara 8 (Italy) was the Coordinator, the partner schools were: Osnovna Škola Bartula Kašića Zadar in Zadar (Croatia), Daugavpils 3 Vidusskola in Daugavpils (Latvia), Základná škola s materskou školou Želiarska in Košice (Slovakia), Instituto de Educación Secundaria Palomares in Palomares del Río (Spain). In Italy the project took advantages of the collaboration of the University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara and, in particular, of the Scientific advice of a Professor of Children’s Literature, Ilaria Filograsso. The partners shared goals and operational strategies focused on development of linguistic literacy as strategy in order to prevent the school abandoning and drop out; development of a lifelong learning dimension; promotion and exchange of good practices to allow pupils to acquire the fundamental skills to exercise citizenship rights; encouragement of creativity and innovation also through the awareness of use of digital skills; development of communication through the creation of real and virtual mobility for pupils and the knowledge of a community language: the English language.
It can be said with satisfaction that all these goals were widely achieved because the project represented a continuity of very positive and enriching experiences which improved the quality of schools and communities so it is possible to think of a continuation and expansion of the project with further collaborations and networks in the respective territories. The international dimension of the whole project has outlined a very important added value to the school oering, thanks to the establishment of the so-called European class that was made up of the deserving pupils who, supported by their families, lived the “experience” with an extraordinary involvement and a contagious enthusiasm. Throughout the life of the project, they took part in innovative workshops on reading and creative writing, in mother tongue and in English, enhancing transversal, linguistic and digital skills; Headteachers and teachers of the schools involved had the opportunity to work in a transnational context too, attending formative workshops, laboratories and seminars organized and shared through a dense communication via emails, WhatsApp and Skype Meetings. The school communities involved in this project took part in a fruitful exchange of ideas, educational experiences and insights which helped to improve the professional competences and the relational dynamics in the light of lifelong learning, laying the foundations for future collaborations.
The common work of partners has materialized through the realization of two Intellectual Outputs: the training kit “Be happy 2 Read & Write” that consists of a theoretical and didactic repertoire for reading education in Europe and “StoryInventor”, an educational game for the creation of digital stories.
In occasion of the Multiplier Event on 24th May the video “Europe inside” was shown. It wanted to sensitise the sense of belonging to Europe on the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the Treaties of Rome and the 30 years of Erasmus. The cast was made up of the pupils involved in the mobilities carried out during the two years of the project, these pupils played the most interesting moments of the planning and the European Citizenship. The video can be very useful for the promotion and spread of further Erasmus+ Projects. The dissemination of reflections, good practices, and the works realized addressed to a wider audience, will be a good point of reference for those people who deal with education and themes related to reading, it can be also very useful for those people who have the dicult task to approach children, teenagers and adults to the world of books.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 197679 Eur

Project Coordinator

IC PESCARA OTTO & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Zakladna skola s materskou skolou Zeliarska 4, Kosice
• Instituto de Educación Secundaria Palomares
• Daugavpils 3.vidusskola
• Osnovna skola Bartula Kasica