Dalla comunità scolastica alla società civile Erasmus Project

Project Title

Dalla comunità scolastica alla società civile

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: Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Teaching and learning of foreign languages; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

The cooperation project between Iseo and Holzgerlingen “From the school community to civil society” (SC&CS ) meeting common needs of the users of both schools, mainly aimed at improving the key competences of the students, especially the ones that are required to improve their employability, at increasing the number of student mobilities, at facilitating the acknowledgement of studies abroad, and at preparing the ground for a sustainable and permanent cooperation between the two schools, in order to continue long-term study mobilities, exchanges of groups of students, virtual cooperation between teachers and/or groups of students or classes. This further cooperation is now possible thanks to the implementation of the activities and the accomplishment of the objectives set by the project SC&CS over the three school years, among which the achievement of a reciprocal in-depth awareness of the main teaching and managing aspects in both schools. Sustainability of the long-term cooperation after completion of the project is supported through other resources provided by both schools.
Unlike previous cooperation experiences between the two schools (such as class exchanges) which involved a limited number of students and teachers, the project SC&CS has had a wide and strong impact on all members of both school communities, who have got to know each other and exchanged good practices both during the mobilities and through etwinning and other digital tools.
All students, including the ones with special needs, all teachers and school staff (totalling about 3000 people) were involved at different levels, many of them contributed to the successful completion of the project. Several languages were employed for communication, and the project principally involved students aged 15-17. Every school year the following mobilities were implemented: at the beginning of the school year an initial meeting aimed at planning the year’s activities in detail, a student exchange, long -term study mobilities, and a final transnational meeting (attended by teachers and students) where results were presented and compared, and activities were monitored. (Total number of mobilities in three years: 213)
Over the three school years students and teachers from both schools cooperated in carrying out research, analysis, comparisons and subsequently in producing multimedia materials on various aspects of the management and organisation of schools and local communities in both territories, and on the common topics selected for every year. Such project activities were also implemented and supported by students during mobility phases; in fact they were given specific tasks within the project and their work was evaluated by teachers. Participation in the activities helped students develop the ability to work in teams, also with people of different cultures, and to be precise, proactive, and respect times.
Respect of management times was constantly monitored by the two project coordinators, by the team of “Riesame della Direzione” of the coordinating school (Iseo) and by the School Board of the partner school (Holzgerlingen). The relevant achievement indicator was calculated at the end of every school year. Budget control was mainly entrusted to administrative staff in Iseo and to teachers and Headmaster in Holzgerlingen.
All materials produced have been made available through etwinning , the school websites and Moodle. Outcomes and results were presented and disseminated at events inside and outside the two schools and through local TVs, newspapers and media in both territories. Examples of different outputs related to the chosen topics and produced by Italian and German students are: presentations, videos, questionnaires, surveys and relevant results, research, comparisons, interviews, reports on visits to local governmental bodies and authorities and other outings during mobility phases, texts, outlines, graphs, paper or virtual posters; project logo, Italian-German-English glossaries for different subjects; teaching materials for lessons to groups of mixed nationalities; minutes of meetings between Italian and German teachers of similar subjects with possible additions of examples of teaching materials used by any of the two schools.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 185072,18 Eur

Project Coordinator

IIS ANTONIETTI & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Schönbuch-Gymnasium Holzgerlingen