Construyendo puentes Erasmus Project

Project Title

Construyendo puentes

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 : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Inclusion – equity; Teaching and learning of foreign languages; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

B&B: Building Bridges wanted to be a collaborative learning project by which the students would educate each other and good practice would be shared by staff. The main aim of the project was that students from each institution would gain a full understanding of their cultural identity and ethnicity, as well as understand and appreciate one another. By working together in a joint project it would make the idea of Europe seem less abstract. The students would be able to understand and learn about other ways of thinking from their fellow Europeans and from different ways of teaching. During the visits they were going to stay with families in order to learn their customs, traditions and also their language. After the project was approved, the British partner said the the familly hosting was imposible due to their laws. This matter was never discussed during the preparation of the Project.
The project would familiarise students with the use of foreign language, improve fluency using a communicative approach and promote the sense of belonging to the European Union. Through the use of information and communication technology (ICT) and the frequent exchange of Spanish and English resources, students would overcome the obstacles in communication and have the opportunity to share knowledge, ideas, opinions and interests related to their daily life at school, home and in their free time whilst discussing their past and hopes for the future. Etwinning platform was chosen to develpo these exchanges but, again, the British partner said the this was imposible due to the data protection laws which made the common work very difficult. Nothing about this problema was said during the former discussions to prepare the Project.
None of the proposed objectives were fullfilled due to the previos difficulties. Moreover, only very few of the activities were carried out.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 2500 Eur

Project Coordinator

Instituto de Enseñanza Secundaria La Minilla & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Southfields Academy