Uczenie przez zrozumienie, czyli nowe technologie pomostem dla kultury Erasmus Project

Project Title

Uczenie przez zrozumienie, czyli nowe technologie pomostem dla kultury

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 Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Teaching and learning of foreign languages; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

‘Teaching through understanding – new technologies as a bridge of joining cultures’ was the mission statement of all the our activities during the two-year-long project financed by the funds from EU Erasmus+ Programme.
The main objective of the project, which had been formed in the Group of Our Secondary Schools Number 3 in Wroclaw, Poland, was joining the two essential educational paths of new technologies and the cultural heritage of EU countries. Through the implementation of IT technologies in the educational process we converged schools that were involved in the project. It is worth mentioning here that the partner Spanish schools were themselves diverse in terms of culture and traditions due to their different geographical location ( the Iberian Peninsula and the Canary Islands).
Another still major objective of the project was digitalization and education of the teaching staff in the field of using new technologies and innovative teaching methods and then their successful implementation in the course of language teaching in the schools. The positive effect of our actions was a significant raise of our students’ language competence in English and Spanish. As we all know the ability to communicate in various languages enables one to expand their knowledge. Thus, it broadens promotes the values of EU countries.
The project, which came to an end in September 2018, was implemented thanks to the great youth from 4 partner schools and the great commitment of teachers. In the coordinating facility in Wrocław, bilingual units with Spanish are very active. That is why this language was the leading language of the project.
The Group of Secondary Schools Number 3 in Wroclaw was also the coordinator of the project and as such it invited the following partner secondary schools: IES Lope de Mendoza of Burgos; IES TEROR of Gran Canarias and 44 Secondary School Neofit Bozveli of Sophia.
In the course of the project 8 mobility visits were organised. 5 of them involved student exchange and 3 others were training courses for the teachers. Student exchange visits activated a great number of the students and made them use Spanish actively. About 200 students took part in the 5 exchange visits, however, still as numerous number of students was involved locally. 2 out of the 5 visits were organised in Poland. In order to familiarise the Spanish and Bulgarian students with Polish cultural and historical heritage we organised some events in our school and hometown as well as coach trips to Cracow and Warsaw. The other 3 student exchange visits took place in Burgos, Gran Canarias and Sophia. Each time the hosts showed us the most significant and beautiful places as well as culture and tradition of their country and region. We could also learn about the Spanish and Bulgarian educational systems and the way the lessons are led in these countries.
The teacher part of the project was as fruitful as the one involving the students. 3 methodological courses whose topics involved methodology of TIK teaching, project work, g-learning, gamification (i.e. teaching based on computer games) were carried out. The teachers shared the knowledge with the other colleagues in their schools and implemented them successfully in their teaching methods.
As mentioned above, we used project work in the course of the project itself in order to complete its main objectives such as cultural education and tolerance promotion. Each stage of activities, establishing overall aims and evaluation criteria were based on project work. Moreover, the projects which the students did during the classes have their final products in the form of a multimedia presentation, a virtual book or iconography. In order to complete their projects the students used the following IT tools: ganial.ly, storybird, prezi or padlet.
Besides mobility visits, we also completed a number of tasks that involved our students’ participation in various topic contests, called e-contests as they meant completion with IT tools, too. Thus, the students were supposed to prepare, e-proverbs, e-christmas. a grand Euro-Chef competition. The students of each partner schools also created their logo and mascot of the project. We there are a number of websites: “Learning to learn” – https://erasmusliceoix.wixsite.com/learningtolearn devoted to all the partner school and www.erasmusplus.lo9.wroc.pl in Polish.
All the activities undoubtedly brought in a lot of benefits to both: the students and the teachers, contributed to the significant growth in language and culture competence as well as motivation in both groups.
We encourage everybody to use and apply all the opportunities that Erasmus+ Programme offer. The project was a two-year-long period of strenuous work which gave us a lot of satisfaction, brought in lasting results and left all the involved with unforgettable memories.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 119100 Eur

Project Coordinator

Zespol Szkol Ogolnoksztalcacych nr 3 & Country: PL

Project Partners

• IES TEROR
• I.E.S. Cardenal López de Mendoza
• 44Secondary School Neofit Bozveli