“European Contest: a Bilingual Challenge” Erasmus Project

Project Title

“European Contest: a Bilingual Challenge”

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 2014

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

“EUROPEAN CONTEST: A BILINGUAL CHALLENGE” It was the title of an ambitious and successful project which has included aspects such as:
– It was “EUROPEAN” because we are students and teachers from Germany, France, Czech Republic, Italy, Turkey, Poland and Spain. We all firmly believe in the European dimension of education. We agree with the objectives of the EU and we have included them in all activities, tasks or challenges, we have carried out together. We have followed exactly our program of activities aimed at students from 10 to 14 years, students of English, and good language skills. We have also increased digital competence, not only as a form of communication between schools, but also as an innovative tool for the educational development of our students and teachers, our children become active European citizens, we have strengthened the link between their education and their schools. We have trained students and have been linked with well-trained teachers, for a training course within the project. This course has focused on CLIL methods, in order to include English in all school subjects. Knowledge have been included in our school educational projects.
– It was a “CONTEST” because it has been the leitmotif of the project that have woven all areas of school in a bilingual manner. Students 10 to 14 years proposed, sought, created and loaded into a digital database with their own Tablet, questions and answers about these topics: “healthy Cultural Heritage, Music, Art, Nature & Landscapes, Life and Sports, Children’s Literature, History, Traditions, customs and cuisine “. We have researched, shared and learned about the participating European countries. Finally they have developed strong communication links with all partner schools. We have communicated through a wide range of technologies, including email, blogs, e-twinning, video conferencing, forums, chats, whatsapp groups, etc. All participating schools have been competent in ICT and this efficiency has facilitated the frequency of communication. Exchange visits of students have turned out to be the greatest motivation and the most successful, because 4 of them have traveled together with their teachers. They have been housed in school families. Therefore, the title of our project: a bilingual challenge for them has become a reality. We have produced sets of high quality end products such as a digital game for our students, open to all and become APP (available for Android) This set includes the above topics, with 350 questions or challenges for each of the themes worked on. Players give response to the challenges and can play in several modes (normal, versus, by country, tablet mode, subject mode). At the end of the project they participated in a grand final contest, demonstrating know a lot about each partner country.
– We have grown “BILINGUAL” together: This project has been developed both in the mother tongue of the partner country and in English. The two languages ​​have been used as a vehicle to acquire academic knowledge, promoting our European spirit. This idea was born in Spain, which has coordinated, and has been extended to other partners, a course about our methodological approach, based on the content in English, taking part of a research and joint implementation of curriculum integrated languages and how it should be carried out (CLIL). All this in order to provide effective opportunities for our students and teachers.
– Finally, this project has turned out to be a “CHALLENGE” for all of us, not only by the volume and quality of work done by students and teachers, but because we committed and have managed to successfully develop a greater understanding and respect among students, staff and parents, have created a deep impact on our schools, communities, cities, also in our environment, institutions and partners, extending our influence beyond what we could have expected at the beginning of this project. We have done this through the exploration of different views of our world. We explored our similarities and differences within the two areas of aesthetic and intellectual knowledge. We have developed basic skills in our students to improve two key competencies (linguistic and technological). We have done this through highly interesting and motivating for our students activities, we have helped them understand why and how they are learning, and we have shown different realities, cultural and social aspects in their areas of expertise and English, inside and outside their schools. Unmatched and unforgettable.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 158943 Eur

Project Coordinator

CEIP Isaac Albéniz & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Collège Carnot
• Zakladni skola T. G. Masaryka Mnichovice okres Praha-vychod, prispevkova organizace
• San Domenico Savio
• Schule an der Haveldüne
• Plevne ilkokulu
• Niepubliczna Szkola Podstawowa nr 81, Fundacja “Rodzice Dzieciom”