International ICT Competitions for Increasing the Quality of Secondary Education Erasmus Project

Project Title

International ICT Competitions for Increasing the Quality of Secondary Education

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: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

The project “International ICT Competitions for Enhancing the Quality of Secondary Education” involved a total of six secondary schools. The main objective of the project was to increase the level of ICT skills and knowledge of office software in the English environment (for students not to be the mother tongue), which help increase their qualifications and facilitate their position in the labor market or in further training. The main coordinator was the Mendel High School in Nový Jičín (Czech Republic), which consists of three main parts (economic, ICT and health) and has extensive experience with the organization of Comenius and Leonardo projects and the organization of the Regional ICT Competition. Within the three-year project, six project meetings (each in another country) took place and five of them were combined with short-term student stays. During the stay, five international student competitions in ICT skills were organized. The competition tasks were given in English. The main goal of the teachers was to prepare international meetings including international competition (creating and editing examples, creating assessment methods), organizing school competitions, exchanging experiences and presenting new ICT teaching methods and teaching foreign languages. All outputs (examples, ideas, experiences) were processed in printed and electronic form – brochures and are also available to interested parties on the project website www.ictcompetition.eu. The brochure contains eight sets of examples in English and Czech (8 text editor examples, 8 spreadsheet examples and 8 examples of the presentation program), including source files. Each example contains 20 to 30 obodate tasks. Time allowance for processing example is 45 minutes. The project website also includes a description of the project, including information on participating schools (website of the school), e-mail contacts to project coordinators in each country, description of project activities of international meetings and use of ICT in education. All materials are available for free download and can be used by both teachers (for teaching, testing, CLIL, ECDL test students, self-study and the general public) (improving ICT skills – especially the OFFICE office suite and the English language. on partner’s school websites.
The main benefits of the project include increasing students’ motivation to engage deeper into ICT in combination with English, enhancing international co-operation, seeking new ways of teaching, creating material (a sample booklet) suitable for teaching students and the general public, and comparing the level of knowledge and skills in schools (countries). 29 students obtained ECDLSTART certificate.
In the future, we would like to launch a new project if the international competition were to be extended to the use of graphic elements, and the competition teams would form international groups to deal with ICT projects (mainly office software and graphics).

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 166334 Eur

Project Coordinator

Mendelova stredni skola, Novy Jicin, prispevkova organizace & Country: CZ

Project Partners

• Zespol Szkol Technicznych i Placowek im. St. Staszica w Nowym Targu
• Agrupamento de Escolas Dr. Serafim Leite
• Escuela F.P. Salesianos Juan XXIII
• Privatna jezicna gimnazija Pitagora
• General Lyceum of Meliki