Sport as a means of social integration Erasmus Project

Project Title

Sport as a means of social integration

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: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

Our project “Sport as a means of social integration” will be carried by three schools from Sweden, Germany and Spain.

The main aim of our project is the integration of pupils who live in disadvantaged social contexts fostering their key competences along with other pupils. This main aim can be divided in four objectives:

– Fostering the key competences of pupils, mainly social, intercultural, sporty and communicative competences in one or more foreign languages (English, Spanish, and German).

– Giving our pupils the opportunity to take part in international projects, especially those pupils from socially disadvantaged contexts.

– Discovering and exploring different sport possibilities in different regions in Europe: a big city in Spain, a rural region in Germany and a middle-sized town in Sweden.

– Depicting the importance of a healthy way of life in which sport plays a significant role, taking into account different possibilities in Europe.

These objectives make reference to the priorities of social inclusion and promoting the acquisition of skills and competences.

We are going to reach these objectives through different types of sport. Unlike other projects, in our case the final score or sport results are not the aim of the activity, it is just a mean to achieve our goals. That is why in our project there are always planned activities that can only be made in teams which objective is not to get the best score or the highest punctuation, but to work in a team and get all other players integrated.

The three partner schools are comprehensive schools from Sweden, Germany and Spain. We are deliberately schools from three different climate zones (South Europe, Central Europe and Scandinavia) because the three different climates offer the possibility to practice very different types of sport.

The pupils taking part in the project are mainly in the 8th grade and we plan that during the two years of the project around 100 pupils and between 10 and 15 teachers take part in the project directly and actively. We also plan that around 3000 people will indirectly be benefited by the project. Our main aim is the integration of pupils from socially and economically disadvantaged families, that is why it is very important for us to foster their participation.

We plan two transnational project meetings. One at the beginning of the project, in September 2017, to plan all the deadlines and exchanges as well as to concretize the technical and logistic aspects of the project; and a second and last meeting to evaluate the project and finish the last products. In this last meeting we can eventually plan a new project.

Apart from these two meeting we will make six short term exchanges with learning/teaching/training activities during the two years of the project: twice in Spain, twice in Germany and twice in Sweden. In these exchanges we plan to work with external experts, like regional athletes and sport teams, city councils, different associations, local and regional media, etc. practicing sports that the pupils from the other partner schools do not know or rarely have the possibility to practice. At the end of each exchange the pupils will create a product, such as a brochure or a website in which we show our activities and results.

We not only work on the project during the exchanges, but also between the different exchanges, especially during the foreign language lessons (English, German and Spanish) and both the teachers and the pupils will always be in contact, mainly through a parallel Etwinning project.

Although we expect to create products at the end of each exchange, we expect an even more important result which is immaterial and has longer term benefits, namely we expect that our pupils expand their horizons, that they integrate their schoolmates, that they improve their foreign language competence and, obviously, that they have fun meanwhile.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 65940 Eur

Project Coordinator

Drawehn-Schule Clenze (KGS) & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Viktoriaskolan
• INSTITUT JOAN MIRO