Experiences for a future in Europe Erasmus Project

Project Title

Experiences for a future in Europe

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: Open and distance learning; Teaching and learning of foreign languages; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

The project “Experiences for a future in Europe” (E4Europe) aims to cover the training demand of the students who mostly study in bilingual educational systems. These teaching systems develop activities aimed at complementing these students’ training, either through formal or non-formal learning (complementary), favoring a further development in linguistic communication competence in a foreign language. Its regulations emphasize the need of promoting complementary activities that help more comprehensive training for these learners and more opportunities for using the foreign language in a varied range of real contexts.
In addition, it is an opportunity for students who are eager to take their training further and discover new cultures, societies and educational systems that allow them to obtain more comprehensive training.

The main aims of the project are:
– Improvement of the linguistic abilities and motivation for language learning. The aim is that students reinforce their competences in order to obtain the B2 certificate according to the CEFR.
– Wider intercultural sensitivity, which will make students more conscious of the social, ethnic, linguistic and cultural diversity around us.
– Promotion of equal learning, collaborative work and self-learning.
Through the achievement of these goals, learners are given a better training and professional preparation, which will favour their incorporation to society as active members.
Aims for teachers:
– Better professional development
– Exchange among teachers of teaching strategies and resources to obtain innovative and creative working methods.
– Greater motivation and satisfaction in their daily work.

Since these aims are common to the European Strategy 2020 promoted by the European Commission, the Erasmus project is considered the perfect frame for their achievement. This programme will also help filling some socio-economic gaps between the students involved in it, in a way that this vital and formative experience provides an inclusive and equal answer for all.

The participating students are between 15 and 16 years old, interested in the improvement of languages and most study in bilingual educational programs. It is expected that 8 students per center will participate in the long term mobility; however, there will be around 30 students per school and year that will participate in the eTwinning activities. Furthermore, the people responsible for coordinating and promoting the project are the language and bilingual program teachers, supported by the Management Teams.

The planned activities are organized in two fundamental blocks: those carried out in their respective centers (inter-mobility), and training mobility.
A) Inter-mobility activities: Participating students (30 per center and school year) will carry out research activities on cultural, traditional and social aspects of their country / region, which they will share through eTwinning. Online contacts will also be made with the students of the partner school, where they will present their presentations.
B) Mobilities: the students involved in these mobilities will be ambassadors of their town or country’s culture and traditions. They will develop a specific working schedule agreed between schools, which will include a video presentation of their hometown and themselves. They will also carry out the work entrusted from the center of origin. They will also provide regular information through the use of a digital diary and video chats.
All activities will be shared and spread via eTwinning.

The methodology will be active. It will be the students, through their individual and team research, who will prepare their presentations and conclusions on the scheduled topics. Through the presentations (in eTwinning), they will be the ones who transmit their own conclusions. To attend the tasks entrusted from their center of origin during the mobility, the PBL will be used (task-based, problem-based and discovery learning), monitored it by Google classroom. Self-learning co-operative work is thus highly fostered, together with self-esteem through work.
The expected results will be obtained both in the short and long term. In the first place, they will fall on the students, who are expected to achieve the indicated objectives, as well as those indicated by the teaching staff. Contact with other teachers and students will serve to enhance language skills, providing, in turn, an understanding of the socio-cultural diversity that surrounds us. Host families and the rest of the educational community will also receive these benefits. In the longer term, it will be the schools involved that will benefit thanks to the methodological innovation and didactic resources generated.

Through the dissemination of the project on various platforms (E + PRP, websites, eTwinning, Facebook, …) a multiplier impact will be obtained.
eTwinning provides a new experience for students and teachers that will lead to future collaborations

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 39992 Eur

Project Coordinator

INSTITUTO DE EDUCACIÓN SECUNDARIA “VILLA DE ABARÁN” & Country: ES

Project Partners

• STICHTING OPENBAAR ONDERWIJS JAN VAN BRABANT