L’OFFICINA DELLA CREATIVITA: APPRENDERE PER UN FUTURO SOSTENIBILE NELLA CLASSE 3.0 Erasmus Project

Project Title

L’OFFICINA DELLA CREATIVITA: APPRENDERE PER UN FUTURO SOSTENIBILE NELLA CLASSE 3.0

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 school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Energy and resources; Inclusion – equity; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

“THE WORKSHOP OF CREATIVITY: LEARNING FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE IN 3.0 CLASS” is a project which involves five European High schools – I.T.S. “Tito Acerbo” of Pescara (Italy), I.E.S. Bezmiliana of Rincon de la Victoria (Spain), INSTITUTO DE EDUCAÇÃO AND FORMAÇÃO DO SORRAIA, LDA of Salvaterra de Magos (Portugal), “GEL NIKAIAS” by Nikaia Larisas (Greece), I.E.S. “AGORA” of Caceres (Spain) and the Abruzzi Region. The project began due to the necessity to review the reference models of schools to develop those skills considered crucial in order to facilitate innovation, leaving behind past attitudes, adequate in the recent past. But no longer relevant in schools where foreign students are in a situation of social, economic and cultural disadvantage.
The partnership has provided adequate responses and introduced the following changes:
• teaching innovation and development of digital culture
• hindering early school leaving and any form of disadvantage
• improvement of basic and transversal skills in a lifelong learning perspective.
In order to make a real transformation it was important to focus on the professional growth of the teacher by sharing the communicative dimension of the new generations by using their own virtual spaces and with immediate actions that would allow everyone to achieve positive results.
The real aim of this partnership was to invest in the digital identity of each person, thus realising a Virtual Energy Museum, a technological model able to support the pedagogical system of the learning, collaborative and remote system, created according to the needs of the trainees.
The 3.0 Classroom has replaced the traditional classroom giving life to a new learning environment, which is flexible and promotes creativity, collaboration and active teaching.
Students aged between 16 and 20 years old have been involved in active and supportive group work and concrete actions have:
• strengthened the dynamism and creativity of research in the energy field, promoted innovation through the use of digital skills and the use of active teaching – learning by doing – to encourage learning even in less gifted individuals and the integration of young people in a situation of social, economic and cultural disadvantage
• encouraged an integrated knowledge, transversal and inspired by a cognitive-collaborative model that has activated and managed educational processes aimed at developing a new approach to the environment and sustainability that have produced important and responsible choices
• involved local areas, seen as a cultural entity of reference, in view of an educational-territorial project by introducing specific tasks and responsibilities.
Everyone has been able to experience and acquire awareness in different ways, of the uneasiness, cultural diversity and social exclusion in the environment where he/she lives. Moreover, to acquire the necessary competences to face the difficulties independently, respecting the people and cultures involved, through commitment and personal generosity.
The defining characteristics have been the relationship with the local areas and the use of an interdisciplinary teaching.
A very important phase of our experience was the collaboration with the local area. The student has had the opportunity to be enriched from an analytical and synthetic point of view, “the vision of the world” thanks to a constant interpersonal contact of a moral, social and logical nature which has been emotionally relevant.
The interdisciplinary approach has contributed enormously in order to define the complexity of our project.
The teaching methodologies and strategies used by the teachers have allowed for a more adequate youth training compared to the demands of the labor world, willingness to cooperate and respect for the behavioral rules, of oneself and others, positive effects in the fight against exclusion, an improvement in the basic and transversal skills of young people, especially linguistic, digital, relational, entrepreneurial ones, autonomy and spirit of initiative.
There will be new opportunities for collaboration and we hope to see an improvement in the relationship between the labor supply and demand thanks to the training experience that has allowed students to respond to the needs of local companies that need versatile, dynamic and flexible workers.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 203675,5 Eur

Project Coordinator

ISTITUTO TECNICO STATALE “TITO ACERBO” & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Gel Nikaias
• IES BEZMILIANA
• Instituto de Educação e Formação do Sorraia, Lda.
• INSTITUTO DE EDUCACIÓN SECUNDARIA “ÁGORA”
• Regione Abruzzo