Vitajte u nás ! Erasmus Project

Project Title

Vitajte u nás !

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: Natural sciences; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Teaching and learning of foreign languages

Project Summary

Project „Welcome among us“ is a combined project of 5 partners from various sides of Europe.
The project was intended for students from 11 to 15 years from the following schools:
Catholic school of St. Vincent de Paul, Levice – Slovakia
Primary school in Domcích Trutnov – Czech Republc
Istituto comprensivo Paolo Egidi – Italy
Yahyalı Atatürk Ortaokulu – Turkey
Saldus 2.vidusskola – Latvia
The project lasted for 28 months. It began 1.9.2015 and finished 1.1.2018
There were total of 174 students and 58 teachers involved within the project. There are pedagogical workers, including project managers, or statutory representatives of schools. Besides that, there were also technical workers and assistant administrators from the rows of schoolworkers participating on the project. The project was also counting with participants from a disadvantaged group of students. /a count of 15/
The project had a geographically – regional aspect. The students processed information about selected naturally – historical objects of their region, about which they informed their partners about during the visit of their given state. They have created a comprehensive overview of the most important objects of tourism in their living space. They promoted their region and focus on the problematic of toursim with all of its attributes, including the infrastructure and promoting.
The frequentants of the project worked in their schools under the guidance of the educators directly during the classes, where the project’s topics wereinserted as cross-cutting issues of the education subjects – geography, history, or regional education.
The next part of the project wasshort – term student exchanges in each country according to a predetermined schedule. There were also two planned meetings of the transnational project team, containing 2 participants from each country. Both meetings were organized by the project’s coordinator – the slovakian school.
Description of short – term student exchange in each partner country:
5 days of activities + 2 days counted for the trip for participants. Total participants: 8 students and 3 adults / teachers /. Completing the activity programme – visiting selected geographical objects, documentation of said objects – photography, video, description…. Jointly processing of the topic in English and native languages. Aside from that, there was an ongoing meeting of the project team, which judged, plans out and analyzes other procedures.

The end result of the project is educational material in the form of a printed publication. It is a material named „Bedeker“ / a book travelling guide /. The guide is created in all languages of the project partners, that means Slovak/Czech/Italian/Turkish/Latvian, and, of course, English. The students were involved in creation of the Bedeker, guided by their teachers. The material for Bedeker was processed continuously during the entire running of the project, and it’s summarization was conducted during the individual mobilities. The material has its text part, map part and picture attachement. Pictures for the Bedeker were created by the students themselves during their visits to partner schools. The approximate number of published Bedekers is 1000 units / each school 200 units /. The published Bedekers was served as educational material in given schools when teaching geography, history or regional education. Bedeker was also prepared in multimedial form in the form of DVD. This material is , aside from text, speaken word and photography, enhanced with video entries.
The project „Welcome among us“ was trying to enhance the educational process via various innovative methods, mainly through activities that bring new forms of education into learning.
This project carry the connection between multiple objects of education. The common denominator of these activities is the model form of business in tourism. We wanted to give the children a better sense for initiative and business, which allows them to orientate better in employment and potential creation of their own businesses.
We are aware of how imporant the higher level of digital competency is, and as such it is necessary to implement and improve it at the lower level of education already. This more modern, dynamic and professional enviroment will allow the children to learn for their future competencies, which certainly involve digital competence.
It is necessary to constantly increase the knowledge of foreign languages among children, be it through cooperation with partners from different countries.
This form of education brings a permannently maintainable growth to the school, a better position among the competition of other schools and getting into public eye. The experience with implementing the project will remain for a long time as competencies among the teachers, who can help to improve their schools with their future work.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 191309,39 Eur

Project Coordinator

Katolicka spojena skola sv. Vincenta de Paul, Saratovska 87, Levice & Country: SK

Project Partners

• Saldus vidusskola
• ZS V Domcich
• Yahyali Ataturk Ortaokulu
• ISTITUTO COMPRENSIVO “P. EGIDI”