Reading is my Passion and New Fashion Erasmus Project

Project Title

Reading is my Passion and New Fashion

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

The benefits of reading are enormous, so those children and youngsters who do not read are in many ways worse off than their peers. We can say they know, understand and feel less than readers, they are also less creative and even tend to be in a worse mental condition than their reading peers. It is the influence of the environment, that is decisive for the development of their reading practices. Schools in their usual pro-reading activities, fail to assist students in overcoming the barriers that young people from the “non-reading” environments encounter. Thus, our project’s objective is to change this situation.
The main goal is to increase the motivation of students to read literature. We will achieve this by showing the attractiveness of reading and the personal benefits it brings.
The main result will be an increase in the amount of the books students read: it will increase by at least 50% each year, not counting the set books, compared to the 12 months preceding the project. The long-term result will be a steady increase in the number of books read. The next result will be a comprehensive and conscious development of the project participants as individuals.
We will also develop material results: films, reviews, artwork, albums, didactic games and new reading spaces.
Various forms of project work are planned, depending on the specific goal which is to be achieved by the performance of a given activity.
The participants will learn to read for pleasure. This will be achieved through students’ involvement in creative reading clubs, a bookcrossing action and participation in a fantasy convention.
The participants will develop: expand their imagination and creativity through planned artistic activities, e.g. competition for the project’s logo, bookcrossing projects, designing comic books, creating didactic games, meeting interesting people (writers, folk artists), participating in LARP.
They will learn to relax with a book by listening to books being read to them and by reading with their peers in the reading club.
They will expand their knowledge of the world.
They will become more critical in their perception of literary and informational content, they will understand others better, they will become more empathic, tolerant and open-minded. In addition, project participants will acquire greater communication skills (also in English), including better use of their native language and will increase their emotional well-being. Thanks to local and international activities, they will enter a peer community where reading is socially rewarded and will become aware that reading can bring personal benefits.
Teachers will acquire sufficient knowledge and skills to effectively motivate their students to read books. Parents will understand their role in introducing their children to the reading process.
During the project work, we will use the School Education Gateway and the Erasmus+ Project Result Platform, as well as the eTwinning platform, which will become a space for our contact, cooperation, exchanging ideas and popularisation.
The project will involve 480 pupils aged 12-14, half of whom will constitute less privileged students (taking into account their social, economic and learning difficulties).
The partnership involves 6 schools from countries with different readership rates among children, teenagers and adults. The schools come from different environments, ranging from big cities to medium-sized towns, small towns and rural areas. The approach of their school systems to the list of set books is also different, ranging from a very rigid one, where both the titles and the number of books are strictly defined to a flexible one, giving teachers great freedom to choose the book titles and their number. We hope that such a diverse partnership will result in an interesting project and will bring lasting results.
Within the project, all schools will carry out similar activities and tasks. Some of them will be performed in international teams. 18 local activities and 6 international meetings (including 2 teacher trainings) are planned.
In order to monitor and evaluate the course of the project and its results, a system of information collection and evaluation will be developed. The tools for gathering information include surveys, interviews, statistics and observation. International meetings will also be evaluated.
The project will be continuously promoted and disseminated and will reach a wide range of students and teachers of the partnership schools as well as local communities and their librarians.
Participation in the project will contribute to the individual development of project participants and improve the quality of work of partner schools and their educational space. Some of the activities implemented in the course of the project will enter into the work of the partnership schools as elements of school educational and subject programmes and as pedagogical innovations.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 196550 Eur

Project Coordinator

Szkola Podstawowa nr 28 z Oddzialami Integracyjnymi & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Istituto Comprensivo Rossella Casini
• Zentas Maurinas Grobinas novada vidusskola
• Scoala Gimnaziala
• Colegio de Infantil y primaria Príncipe don Felipe
• 16th Primary School of Rethymno Crete