Auf den Flügeln der Fantasie durch Europa Erasmus Project

Project Title

Auf den Flügeln der Fantasie durch Europa

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; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

Our project “On the wings of imagination through Europe” put a main focus on the support of creativity and the strengthening of key competences, so that the children have knowledge, a social and ecological sense of responsibility, education, joy, imagination, wealth of ideas and readiness for duty at their disposal. We referred to the strategical frame for the European cooperation in the field of universal and professional education (ET 2020) and the previous programme “Universal and professional education in 2010” (ET 2010). We wanted to prevent the development of school refusal or dropout of children because of not sufficient qualifications from the outset.
At the beginning of the project the french partnerschool unfortunately resigned from the project. The planned mobility was carried out and financed at the participants’ own expense.
The support of creativity and key competences has to begin as early as possible. Our primary schools in Unna, Pisa, Lanchester and Ajka go resume the preexperiences of the children from parental home and nursery school and promote these competences, so that they can change from primary to secondary schools without any difficulties. Because of this, the schools co-operate very closely with each other and build a network.
In our partner schools there are many children from less educated and socially disadvantaged families.
Many children have a migration background or special educational needs. In all partner schools there are children with special needs in learning, social and emotional development, mental development, language or physical and motor development. The schools are inclusive and develope strategies to promote all children in their development. This can succeed particularly in the creative field. In addition, many children are threatened by educational disadvantages because they have no access to literature, art, museums or computers in their families.
The main aims of the project were the support of creativity and problem solution competence, the support of cultural awareness and capability of cultural expression, the support of first language and foreign language skills, computer competence, learning competence, social competence, initiative and enterprise competence.
In our project, the children developed curiosity, openness, experimental joy, creative handling of technologies, materials and tools and economical dealing with resources, e.g. concerning time, material or work routines. They produced individual and original results, e.g. artistic products and processes and told about them in conversations and texts. Moreover, they developed expression and explanatory power of an artistic solution and the ability to plan and realise contributions for common projects with other children. In doing so, they highly strengthened their verbal and written communication and reflection competences in their mother tongue.
The children of all partner schools experimented in interdisciplinary lessons, in projects and study groups in the fields “Coloured shapes, graphic and spatial shapes, shapes with technical-visual media, discussion about pictures and objects of artists of their home country and other European countries”. In the course of the project, they used pictures and pieces of art also as writing occasions, wrote profiles of artists or wrote and designed invitations to exhibitions or art-workshops at school for parents, neighbours, nursery schools, secondary schools and the school public.
At the end of the project the children
– will have access to the different school websites, will strengthen their reading skills and satisfy their thirst for knowledge.
– will be motivated by the work with the partner schools to learn foreign languages and can take part in foreign language study groups (in English, French, Spanish, German).
– will extend their experiences and competences in dealing with digital media by the use of the websites of the other schools, by visits at every school and by video conferences. The children can use their competences in new contexts.
– will impart knowledge to younger children and thus they will increase their social competence and apply them in future projects and lessons.
– will accept help from older children and thus they will increase their social competences and apply them in future.
– will increase their creative, social, linguistic and cognitive competences and apply them in future.
The teachers integrate digital media, workshops, new methods and projects with children of different school years with lasting effects into their lessons.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 81760 Eur

Project Coordinator

Sonnenschule, Städt. Gemeinschaftsgrundschule, Primarstufe & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Istituto Comprensivo Liana Strenta Tongiorgi
• Lanchester EP Primary School
• Ajkai Borsos Miklós Általános Iskola
• école Joliot-Curie