European Active Citizenship Erasmus Project

Project Title

European Active Citizenship

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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Teaching and learning of foreign languages; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills

Project Summary

The Plan “Europe 2020” is the European Union’s ten-year jobs and growth strategy. It was launched in 2010 to create the conditions for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. Five headline targets have been agreed for the EU to be achieved by the end of 2020. These cover employment; research and development; climate/energy; education; social inclusion and poverty reduction.
We wanted to encourage our students to understand why these targets are important to us and how they can support and contribute to their achievement. These objectives have been carried out by means of a great of number of activities that have also improved the mathematical competence and the linguistic and communicative competence in a foreign language.
AIMS:
– Know in depth “Europe 2020” targets, strategies and activities.
– Research and compare different social realities in Spain and other countries from the EU.
– Develop a sense of entrepreneurship through attitudes (self-awareness and self-confidence), knowledge, and skills (communication, presentation and transversal skills).
– Increase the exposure to English and the performance in English skills through ICT based activities.
– Develop transversal skills such as the ability to think critically, take initiative, problem solve and creativity through a collaborative work.
– Produce radio podcasts.
– Increase the use of ICT and OER to produce and disseminate results to a broader level.
– Improve the performance to Maths applying the knowledge acquired in social problems.
LANGUAGES: English
PARTNERS: Riga 25th Secondary School (Riga), XVIII Gimnazija.(Zagreb), Kungsvägensskola (Sibbo), Istituto di Istruzione Superior Raffaello (Urbino) and IES TRASSIERRA (Córdoba).
PUPIL’S AGE: Pupils aged 14-16 have been the participants in this project. We believed that that they have finished the second year of the project with a better knowledge of EU to become active citizens and have increased their competences in ICT, English, Communication and Maths.
ACTIVITIES: the main activities were developed in the mobilities : a mathematic gymkhana competition, a radio program, a theatrical performance and a memorandum.
The target of the rest of activities was working the mathematic, linguistic and communicative competences through plays, radio podcasts, a mathematical competition (gymkhana), statistics, documents, the design of information boards, proposals and memoranda among other things.
RESULTS AND IMPACT:The concrete results are:
a. The activities done by means of digital platforms about Europe 2020.
b. An interactive album about the international meetings
c. A cultural guide about each school enviroment
d.Ten panels with relevant information about Europe 2020
e. Several radio podcasts
f. An adaptation of a theatre play
g. A mathematical competition (gymkhana) about Europe 2020
h. The European Active Citizenship Memorandum published in English, Spanish, Latvian, Croatian and Italian.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 105805 Eur

Project Coordinator

IES Trassierra & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Riga Secondary School No. 25
• Istituto Istruzione Superiore “Raffaello” Urbino
• XVIII. GIMNAZIJA
• Kungsvägens skola