Good Morning Europe Erasmus Project

Project Title

Good Morning Europe

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 : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Creativity and culture; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

The need for increased European unity is clear within the twenty-first century’s climate of globalisation and the Youth of today are those who will be ensuring this for the future. The synergy created by comparing contrasting cultures will stimulate the necessary understanding and cooperation to aid this process.

Six schools will be participating in the project representing peripheral areas of Europe : France, Romania, Turkey, Spain and Italy. For two years there will be six transnational visits involving approximately four hundred and eighty students and accompanying staff members. Specific attention to special needs students, who will be involved in the project and, for some of them, in transnational visits.

The schools involved in the project are sharing the same needs, all of them lacking geographical, social, European inclusion, and already working on radio creation at school as a tool to open their students to the outside. Students and teachers will communicate and create together through the radio medium. Sound clips, reports, interviews, songs, surveys, and programs will be co-produced by the project’s members.The main objective of this project is to produce a long-term radio cooperation between schools from geographically contrasting European member states and Turkey. The final product : a radio network integrated into the respective curriculae of the participating schools, teacher training colleges, on an open source dedicated website.

The participating schools will be investigating the paths and necessary skills involved in journalism, media in general, through topics for the sound productions or broadcasts chosen in students’ “everyday life”, in order to impulse a real international and intercultural dialogue. Radio will enable the use of many communication and cross-disciplinary skills without requiring heavy or expensive equipments, thus mobilising both language proficiency, oral expression, media education, ICT skills, teamwork, autonomy and initiative. The result of the cooperation for the students will be improved skills and consciousness about european citizenship, but also confidence that they will be able to travel, exchange, speak, study, work, in another area than their own. For the teachers, there will be long-term effects : improved skills in sound creation, media education, innovative teaching methods, and special needs students support.

Due to the distance between schools and the necessity for differenciation because of cultural and social differences, there will be an emphasis on blended learning. Integrated blended learning materials will be produced which can be used throughout Europe. Since the lingua franca will be English, the students will obviously be communicating their ideas on school, local, national and European themes in English during the transnational visits.

This project will offer all interested parties in the schools (school management, parents, teachers, students, included special needs students) the opportunity to gain a greater insight into and understanding of European citizenship in other parts of Europe and the communities in which they operate.

Radio is the reason why our schools wanted to work together and to get to know each other better. Thus, radio media being our common tool and main mean of communication in this project, it is obvious that we will have an important dissemination of this European project, thanks to our own productions, but also the associated partners, media and radios which will relay our project in the partnership’s countries.

Project Website

http://www.goodmorningeurope.eu/goodmornigeurope/pages/index.shtml

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 162181,5 Eur

Project Coordinator

Lycée polyvalent Paul Sérusier & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Liceo delle Scienze Umane e Musicale “Sebastiano Satta”
• Karsiyaka Lisesi
• Colegiul National Nicu Gane
• ITCG E.MATTEI
• IES JUAN ANTONIO CASTRO