The title of the project is “ACcelerating Creativity:Exploring and Practising Tools in Image editiNG”. Erasmus Project

Project Title

The title of the project is “ACcelerating Creativity:Exploring and Practising Tools in Image editiNG”.

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

Considering the changing of young people learning process, their difficulties in attention and concentration, low motivation, diversity in the classrooms which grow more and more multicultural, the partners, who had previously collaborated in other project either Comenius or e-Twinning, exchanging experiences and also comparing the results of national system for self evaluation, noticed that they shared the same educational needs:

– fight passivity towards learning and knowledge
– improve European citizenship
– recognize the value of other cultures
– promote inclusion
– enable success for all students
– improve students skills and competences
– enhance teachers professional development

The project: “ACcelerating Creativity: Exploring and Practising Tools in Image editiNG”, acronym “ACCEPTING” was the response to their shared educational needs and the opportunity to evolve the Educational needs into educational goals.

The project was based on young people natural abilities to communicate through images especially photos and videos.
The project promoted a more student-centred learning approach by exploting this point of strength of youth as the starting point for an educational path that led them to explore, experience and acquire some jobs techniques. The project also hightened creativity in educational process proposing an interdisciplinary approach to learning, as students were asked to research new and more original uses of images to communicate on different subjects. The images were created, manipulated by using ICT tools, they had to asses the viability of their work, show their outcomes to teachers and other students and other audiences. The project, explored the language of images, in which young people are very sensitive and that with its immediacy exceeds the limits of language, diversity and disability, promoting more inclusive methodologies, and enhancing participation and learning performace of disadvantaged learners, reducing disparities in learning outcomes. Diversity was the basis for gaining experience of this way of communicate.

The project achieved the following objectives:

– promoted foreign language learning
– increased the use of Information and Communication Technologies
– helped children to express themselves and their ideas
– developed critical thinking
-.combated discrimanation and bullying
– experienced enterpreneurship by being manager of their own creation
– created innovative, exciting and motivating learning opportunities
– evolved and evaluated methods of teaching
– shared and improved teaching skills
– created a schools network for the exchange of good practices
– prevented early school leaving

The project produced the following project Results:

– Project Logo
– Photo Exhibition: phots of school enviroments and neighborhoods
– Video Tutorial: Halloween Crafts
– Newspaper: aticles about recent school events, national sport event, culture, word games
– Travel Agency: advertisment of a three days tour in partners countries
– Project Website
– Project Blog
– Journal of Good practices exchange: padlet
– e-Twinning project

The project was addressed to pupils of primary and secondary schools from 5 to 12 years old. All pupils were involved in the project as diversity is the field where the objectives of the project have been pursed.
The project also addressed to teachers: primary school teachers, secondary school teachers and kindergarten teachers.Teachers of different school subjects with competences in ICT, English language, Media Literacy, Photo and Video editing.

The project attained impact on:

– school communities and local stakeholders which need to widen interest in school activities and be sensitized about educational needs of young people.
– families who need to approach growing multiculturalism in our urban areas and widen knowledge about new generation educational needs and school strategies.
– teachers who need to strenghten their professional profiles

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 84250 Eur

Project Coordinator

Istituto Comprensivo “Octavia” & Country: IT

Project Partners

• ecole elementaire Bourran
• Szent Imre Katolikus Általános Iskola és Jó Pásztor Óvoda
• Dimotiko Scholeio Arseniou
• Szkola Podstawowa nr 10 im. Adama Mickiewicza