Students’ empowerment through school environment Erasmus Project

Project Title

Students’ empowerment through school environment

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: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

The project “Students’ empowerment through school environment” is prepared by the schools from Estonia, Turkey, Slovenia, Sweden and Bulgaria.
The purpose of the project is to improve and modernize environments of the partner schools (modern solutions for physical environment, distance learning, active participation of students in the school life, reduction of bullying, supporting atmosphere, students’ involvement in making decisions, etc.). The project works with five aspects of learning environment: physical, intellectual, social, psychological and digital.
The expected project results are:
1. 5 students’ exchanges are successfully arranged with at least 100 students and 40 teachers;
2. 5 digital infographics are made as a result of the mobilities, they reflect schools’ new position and pursuits on the ideal environments and their ideas are implemented at schools;
3. 5 analyses of the school environments (one for each school) are made in the participating schools, which state the schools’ current learning environments (their advantages, disadvantages, needs for a change). The analyses are made based on the research carried out in each partner school in October-November 2020. The participants of the research are students, teachers and parents (at least 60 persons).
4. The students’ key competences are reinforced and developed, which is proved by their self-reflections and teacher’s observations.
5. The participating schools’ learning environments are improved and they are empowering, student-friendly, person-centred, creative, sustainable and effective. The result is measured with the research made in May 2022 in each partner school.
Working on achieving the results we will make our schools more attractive for the students and in this way reduce early school leaving and disadvantage.
The age of the students in the project is 13 – 17 years. There will be 5 students and 2 teachers from each partner school in every students’ exchange. Both teachers and students will be selected in the beginning of the project.
In the present project we plan only students’ exchanges, which will allow us to achieve the project results. Each mobility is dedicated to one of the aspects of learning environment at school. Every time there will be different teachers (one new teacher and one coordinator -the same in every mobility) and students taking part in the mobilities.
Each partner is responsible for their aspect of the learning environment:
Narva Vanalinna Riigikool – digital environment
Profilirana matematicheska gymnasia “Konstantin Velichkov” – intellectual learning environment
Tarsus Mehmet Akif Ersoy Ortaokulu – social learning environment
Gagnefs kommun – psychological learning environment
Gimnasia Brežice – physical learning environment
Before each mobility there will be virtual exchanges in eTwinning. This preparatory work will allow the students and teachers get to know each other before the actual mobility takes place. They will feel more comfortable and relaxed and they will know a lot about their countries and cultures. It will save our time during the students’ exchange. Moreover, the students will be prepared for the topic of the mobility, think about it, collect ideas and it will help them during their work in international teams.
The level of the project success will be measured with the following tools: evaluation after each learning programme, final evaluation, monitoring checks, quality control questionnaires, individual and group reflections, observations and sharing the achievements and changes.
The main impact for the participating schools will be a thorough analysis of the all the aspects of learning environment, plans for improvement and infographics to use as visualizations of schools’ pursuits and principles in creation of their learning environment, developed by the teams of students and teachers.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 96456 Eur

Project Coordinator

Narva Vanalinna Riigikool & Country: EE

Project Partners

• Gimnazija Brezice
• Tarsus Mehmet Akif Ersoy Ortaokulu
• Profilirana matematicheska gymnasia “Konstantin Velichkov”
• Mockfjärdsskolan