School Radio Waves Erasmus Project

Project Title

School Radio Waves

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: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Health and wellbeing; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

In our project School Radio Waves there were five secondary and lower-secondary schools involved,from Spain,Poland,Portugal,Bulgaria and Hungary.We developed a project that helped our students improve their transversal competences necessary in their future lives,through innovative teaching methods.Teachers exchanged new methodologies based on the radio,which was the main protagonist of our project,and on the new technologies.Thanks to this exchange of practices,our schools count with better qualified teachers who have been able to put into practice new teaching methods,and students were more motivated to learn and improve their skills in a more stimulating atmosphere.By working with students from other European countries,they improved their cultural,social and civic competences as well as their linguistic competences in English.Working on the radio,creating and editing radio programmes also requires knowledge and use of ICT, hence they improved their digital skills,too.Throughout our project students mainly worked in groups and had to negotiate and assume different responsibilities,improving their ability to cooperate and take initiative.This way they strengthened their social relationships with peers.With our project we also aimed at helping all kinds of students improve their self-confidence and help them become open-minded,critical,tolerant European citizens.They practised to write and read news,to make interviews and reportages,to express their opinions and listen to others.The partner countries worked simultaneously on the same tasks, and students´work was supervised by the teachers.Our project included five students’ mobilities,which allowed small groups of students from each of the five countries work together,face to face.The products made by them on the previous months were shown and shared by all countries in each of these mobilities,where students at the same time learned about important topics and journalism aspects like how to make effective interviews,reportages and how to spot fake news.Back in their countries participants transferred their acquired knowledge to their peers and families by means of workshops and presentations.Likewise,all activities done throughout the project were uploaded and available in the blog of School Radio Waves https://www.schoolradiowaves.eu/,which was one of the main means of dissemination.Being a communication media, the radio allowed us to deal with any issues.We chose four,according to our students’ interests and needs.Hence,the first year of the project,we focused on “Teenagers’ Addictions” and “Ecology”,whereas the second year we focused on “Music and Arts” and “Europe and Beyond”.Some activities related to these topics are,for instance,surveys on addictions and a lecture on teenagers’ addictions done by a professional psychologist (OKI organisation),making of rubbish creature sculptures,ecology poems,an exchange of music compilations,the creation of a radio jingle,an explanatory video of traditional dances,interviews to students,families,expatriates and radio professionals (https://www.ivoox.com/en/26867207),and cultural quizzes via Kahoot(https://www.schoolradiowaves.eu/news/school-radio-waves-cultural-kahoot/).Other results are School Radio Waves blog and leaflets,the logo,five radio travel guides,a memories book,a final collection of the best activities,final exhibitions,and,of course,the final international radio programme,which was recorded in Ibiza during the fifth LTT activity.We feel that our project has had an impact at all levels.Our schools clearly benefited from happier teachers with more innovative and stimulating teaching methodologies,based on the radio,which students directly took advantage of.There is a growing number of teachers interested in the use of the radio within the curriculum.In fact,one of the participating organisations has managed to incorporate a two-hour radio workshop per week within the curriculum of 12-13 year-old-students,and more and more students are becoming highly interested in radio issues at schools.As for the results of our project,they are available in the Erasmus+ platform,in School Radio Waves blog,and on different platforms such as ivoox,vimeo and youtube.Through an effective plan of dissemination(social nets, and media coverage above all)we reached other schools that have a radio or may have it in the future.We provided them with new ideas on how to use it at school and take the most of it.At the beginning of the project we hoped that other schools would be encouraged to take part in international projects and innovate their teaching methods in order to motivate and satisfy a bigger number of pupils and prepare them better for today’s society. And, in fact, nearby schools have started to either be involved in radio courses or even have a small radio studio at the school.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 77580 Eur

Project Coordinator

IES SANT AGUSTI & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Agrupamento de Escolas de Maximinos
• Kecskeméti Bolyai János Gimnázium
• Zespol Szkol Szkola Podstawowa nr 1 i Gimnazjum im. Jana Pawla II w Suchej Beskidzkiej
• St. Kliment Ohridski High School of Arts