Phoenix Erasmus Project

Project Title

Phoenix

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: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

Our project’s name was “Phoenix”. It symolized a firebird rising from the ashes of educational despair with high aspirations and expectations. We chose that name because it should be a symbol of a huge amount of students taking part in the project whose past was influenced by failures and demotivation at school. With the help of this project we opened new opportunities for disadvantaged, inefficient and especially efficient students. This way they were given the chance to work together in international teams in order to increase their motivation to learn. Thereby we used new media, created new learning strategies and showed them new perspectives for live after school, sharpened their awareness how to take their future in their own hands.
We met our objective to increase their self-, social- and media competences/skills. Social skills with cooperating and learning from each other in international teams. Media skills by discovering and trying the 21st century skills. Self competence by increasing the students’ self confidence because they had to present their presentations in front of all participants and actively take part in several workshops. In addition they trusted in and improved their English knowledge which was means of communication.
All participants widened their knowledge of other cultures, traditions and ways of life and benefited from it. We also felt positively impressed by getting to know other schools systems and exchanging of innovative teaching and learning methods. New media trends were tested, knowledge about them broadened, such as city guides.
Six European schools took part in the “Phoenix” project. The amount in percentage of students with drop out behaviour was pretty high in the participating schools. The Greek evening school teaches students who try to pass their exams in a second-chance education. During the mobilities we dealt in seminars and workshops with the fllowing aspects: problems and risks for drop out, possibilities of motivating students, how to increase motivation, exchange of innovative teachiing and learning methods, opportunities of technological lessons (digital whiteboard, new media), professional orientation at participating schools, cooperation with parents and local authorities, use of several current online tools for digital presentations/results (website, padlet, ebook, powtoon, learning apps, quizlet and others), effectively sustainable local enterprises.
Apart from the mobilities many other students took part in the logo contest, created city guides and their subtitles in English and their mother tongue, produced a rap, learned and used techniques of graffit, created role-plays on the topic integration and presented them in front of an international audience, produced a common picture story on cultural diversity, used eTwinning, made an exhibition about the participating schools and the logo contest, showcases and flyers about the progress of the project, released articles in newspapers and on school homepages, live streaming, tv presentations, completed our youTube channel, websites and evaluations.
All participating students, teachers, parents and stakeholders could be fascinated by the Erasmus+ idea in the course of the project. Dissimination was strengthened by publications in local press and on tv.
The long-term benefit of the project was and is mainly measured in the increasing willingness of colleagues to run international projects (eTwinning), the more attractive way of teaching lessons by less fear of contact with new media and the sustainable effect of authentic meetings in other countries and partly in other families.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 121755,4 Eur

Project Coordinator

Integrierte Gesamtschule Grünthal – mit gymnasialer Oberstufe- & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Springwood High School
• Lycée général et technologique Auguste Béhal
• Istituto d’Istruzione Superiore Majorana
• Centro privado plurilingüe La Grande Obra de Atocha
• ESPERINO GYMNASIO-LYKEIAKES TAXEIS TRIKALON