The new literacy set Erasmus Project

Project Title

The new literacy set

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 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

Along with traditional education, nowadays, schools should take care of developing both basic and transversal skills. But we have also detected other transversal skills that are necessary and not developed enough. They make the new literacy set. The communication skills are essential for success and happiness because people who are good communicators have more successful and fulfilled business, social and private life. Also, knowing how to search and evaluate information makes the difference between active, responsible and aware citizen and easy-to-manipulate person. Finally, each day one is faced with consequences of financial illiteracy reflected in being on the edge of bankruptcy because they do not understand what they sign or have chosen the wrong financial strategy. We must provide these kinds of literacy in school as well.
The objectives of this project were:
1. Enhancing digital integration in learning and development of open educational resources by developing 3 new curriculas and linked open educational materials for financial, communication and information literacy.
2. Developing ICT, mathematics and language skills and creativity, initiative and entrepreneurship among students by applying innovative methods.
3. Strengthening students’ position in labour market and encouraging their personal growth by developing their communication, information and financial skills.
In the project, students from partner schools participated through: being included in short-term student exchanges (60 students), participating in new curricula implementation and using of new digital materials (min 180 students per school), participating in other activities such as logo competition, poster making and ICT workshops. Students with low achievements and study difficulties were also encouraged to participate.
In project participated teachers from partner schools who worked on implementation of the new curricula (at least 9 teachers competent for the subject), the teachers who were interested in using project outputs and results and who were accompanying persons during the short-term student exchanges (at least 60 teachers), and staff in partner institutions who worked on the new curricula and digital materials and, also, staff that participated in transnational meetings and/or short-term joined staff training (at least 20 persons).
In topic-related conferences (multiplier events) participated approximately 90 persons (30 in each country) from media, local community and relevant institutions and also 50 persons in closing conference. In teachers training event at the beginning of the project participated 20 teachers from partner schools.
The project had 6 activities in which intellectual outputs (curricula and open materials for each literacy – communication, information and financial) were made. After each curricula was made and approved, partners worked on digital materials. Each lesson was followed by appropriate digital materials including an introduction part with an initial quiz, materials based on the lesson subject, evaluation based on learning outcomes, homework assignments, methodology and explanation where and how the lesson can be used within the existing curriculas if applicable.
During the project, 3 short-term student exchanges were conducted. These were used as a pilot-curricula implementation and evaluation tool. The testing and evaluation of the project outputs provided information about which outputs should be improved. All the outputs which did not meet the requirements were redone. One short-term joined staff training ensured that all the staff included in producing intellectual outputs had needed skills and knowledge about learning-outcomes based curriculas and innovative teaching methods.
After the project finished, the intellectual outputs were used as new school activities in partner schools. It is expected that they will be used in other schools, too. That is enabled through the project website which contains all intellectual outputs which are translated and written in 4 languages, just like whole website (newliteracyset.eu).
In line with project’s objectives applicat school went a step further and made online courses for some of the topics covered by curriculas. For each type of literacy 2 online courses were made, so in total 6 online courses where students can go through the materials independently using just their mobile phone and athe their own pace.
The students who participated in the short-term students exchanges and the new schools activities improved their knowledge and skills about communication, information and finance. Hopefully, that will help students to successfully manage their finances, get the needed information and have efficient communication in their future life, both in business as well as in private sphere. The students upgraded their ICT and mathematic skills, creativity, initiative, entrepreneurship, social and civic responsibility and improved their language abilities.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 149235 Eur

Project Coordinator

Privatna gimnazija i ekonomsko-informaticka skola Futura s pravom javnosti & Country: HR

Project Partners

• Istituto Istruzione Scolastica Superiore “Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa”
• Institut Carles Vallbona
• VELEUCILISTE VERN
• CSA – Consulta per lo Sviluppo delle Aziende e delle Professioni