EUthApp: The Inclusive Guide for Young Travellers Erasmus Project

Project Title

EUthApp: The Inclusive Guide for Young Travellers

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: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Inclusion – equity; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

EUthApp: The Inclusive Guide for Young Travellers in Europe, our KA219 cooperation and innovación project, has taken place among three schools in Liepāja, LT, y en Söke, TR. In the project time all the objectives have been fully reached, even getting some extended benefits beyond the planning at application time. We have succeeded in getting a sizable number of students and teachers involved in fostering European citizenship and internationalization in our school. We have also been able to develop language skills in our students and teachers, not only in the English language, but in other minor European languages, which got more visibility for our community, like Italian, Latvian, Turkish, German, French, Portuguese and others, including Esperanto, thanks to the transnational and multilingual dimension of our project.

EUthApp has also fostered skills in our students connected to team work, both locally and in multinational teams, skills of personal autonomy, project work and integrated learning and CLIL. Special mention must be made of the ample synergies between EUthApp and IES Gabriel Alonso de Herrera’s multilingual CLIL programmes, both benefitting from each other throughout the duration of the project. Those students in the vocational training programme FP Básica I have been amply involved with the App development and technical side, more intensely during the first year of the project, when more design and development hours were needed. This has meant getting involved in the project students under risk of exclusion from the educational system. And last, all these innovative techniques and methodologies have contributed to pique our students’ interest in leadership and entrepeneurship, thus favouring their future employability.

Activities in the project focussed on design, development and supply of contents for an open App (www.euthapp.eu) which indexes contents on a world map, with tourist-interest contents (from our students’ eye) about their home towns and other places they have visited privately or within school trips. Thus we can find contents (what we call POIs or Points of Interest) about Talavera, Salamanca, Benavente, to name a few, but also international landmarks visited on occasion of school or family trips, like London, Munich, Viana do Castello, Rome, Milano, Bergamo, Oslo Frankfurt, Paris). Of course, our international colleagues have also produced contents related to their areas of residence or influence.

Internationalization in our project has been achieved in this project by translating/localizing contents into at least the three languages of the project plus English as the pivoting language. This gives a full meaning to the three blended mobilities carried out within the project and the extra mobilities added as a bonus, the combined mobility of students C1, C2 and C3 in Talavera, Liepaja and Söke. The flexible stance and modularity of our project has allowed us to include more languages beyond the already mentioned four official languages in the project, 3 + 1. Our record lays in a total of eleven language in one single POI.

From a quantitative point of view, we have more than met our objective of POIs to create. Where we planned to have 40/50 in the first year, we achieved 200 only in the Spanish school by August 2017. As of today, some 700 POIs have been implemented by the participating schools, while students are still working in the project today and will continue to do so in the foreseeable future, which means that our records will continue to be beaten in the future.

We must highlight that we have got a new school involved from Frankfurt, DE, Adolf-Reichwein-Schule, brought in to our project from October 2018, thus widening the local and international impact of EUthApp.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 78520 Eur

Project Coordinator

IES Gabriel Alonso de Herrera & Country: ES

Project Partners

• SOKE HILMI FIRAT ANADOLU LISESI
• Liepajas Valsts 1.Gimnazija