EuroKids 24 News: XXIst century Skills through School Radio and Newspaper Erasmus Project

Project Title

EuroKids 24 News: XXIst century Skills through School Radio and Newspaper

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Teaching and learning of foreign languages; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

“EuroKids 24 News” is an Erasmus + project used to create an international channel news controlled by students from five European schools in France, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania and Spain, where they have created school radios and newspapers to publish reports and news about different topics: everyday life at school, local news, national news and international news, as well as news about other topics, such as climate change, refugees, poverty, etc.

Students publish their oral and written piece of news both in each of our native languages, French, Polish, Romanian, Bulgarian and Spanish, but also in the foreign language they are learning, English, so both students and adults from their national countries and other European schools can communicate one with another, access other school’s news and share them locally, regionally, national and internationally.

Online school radio programs are created through the radio broadcaster www.spreaker.com, so radio shows are both easily available live through the internet or through radio podcast channels (iTunes, iVoox, Spreaker Podcast and Spotify) searching for EuroKids 24 News.

Online newspapers are published in each of the national languages of each school partners on each school blog (i.e. EuroKids24Spain.blogspot.com, EuroKids24France.blogspot.com, EuroKids24Poland.blogspot.com, EuroKids24Romania.blogspot.com, and EuroKids24Bulgaria.blogspot.com), but also in English, the international language of communication for teachers and students from the country members, on the international blog (EuroKids24.blogspot.com)

Newspaper articles are created by teacher and students through the online platform EditaFacil and published online on Issuu platform and App, where students, teachers and families can read them for free. Individual piece of news created by our school students are also created through the online tool Adobe Spark, and published on our online news channel on our blogs and through our Twitter account #Eurokids24

The main reasons to carry out this project in an international way are: first exchanging experiences about school radio and newspaper with other European schools; second using media to research and exchange cultural facts and information about the countries participating in the project; third, and finally motivating the students to communicate with other students using the foreign language and developing their XXIst century skills: creativity, communication, access to digital media and technology, critical thinking, life skills and collaboration between students and teachers at school and international level.
The main methodology principles we have used when working with students in this project are: project based learning, learner centred approach, cooperative and collaborative work and finally integrating new technologies and media in the learning/teaching process.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 92735 Eur

Project Coordinator

CEIP MARINA DE CUDEYO & Country: ES

Project Partners

• DARICA ASLAN CIMENTO ILKOKULU
• Detska gradina “Bratya Grim”
• Zespol Szkoly Podstawowej i Przedszkola w Belecinie
• COLLEGE ERNEST PERRIER DE LA BATHIE
• Colegiul National