Our Past Our Future Erasmus Project

Project Title

Our Past Our Future

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage

Project Summary

It will be a 2 years KA2 – Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices KA229 – School Exchange Partnerships Project named “Our Past our Future”.
Six schools are involved in the project:
the DR.KEMAL NACI EKSI ANADOLU LISESI, Istanbul, Turkey;
the IES Sierra Luna, Los Barrios, Spain;
the 3o Geniko Lykeio Katerinis, Katerini, Greece;
the Liceul Tehnologic ” Dr. Florian Ulmeanu”, ULMENI, Romania;
Rezekne State Gymnasium No1, Rezekne, Latvia;
the I.I.S. Fermi Filangieri from Formia, Italy, as COORDINATOR
There will be 6 LTT meetings, with 4 students and 2 teachers of each country involved in each meeting and the students will be hosted in families.
Our Strategic Partnership addresses to the horizontal priority of European rules: Social and educational value of European cultural heritage, his contribution to job creation, economic growth and social cohesion, and also promoting a comprehensive approach to language teaching and learning, and promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship activities among young people.
Besides, our Strategic Partnership addresses to Italian priorities for the school education sector 2019: school dropout and disadvantaged conditions, allowing the success of all students, including those coming from a migration background, to consolidate the collaboration between all actors involved in the school sector, as well as families and other external stakeholders. Also, to promote a comprehensive approach to teaching and learning, based on increasing linguistic diversity in schools, such as encourage learning and early awareness of languages. Finally. to integrate the use of new technologies to support language learning and supporting the integration of the linguistic dimension between programs.
Recently, the whole Europe has been involved in a job crisis never known before and especially young people have great difficulty in finding a job.
The Young were hardest hit by the crisis. If we take a look at young people NEET (aged 15-24), we can see very different rates among European Countries It ranges approximately 15 -17% in Spain, to 18-20% in Italy, to 17-20% in Greece, 17-20% in Romania, 10-12% in Latvia, about 20% in Turkey.
Young people are more likely to be overqualified, in non-standard and precarious forms of employment and as a result have lower social protection.
Risk of poverty, risk of social exclusion and risk of unemployment are great problems for them, and we aim to focus them to develop skills, ideas and new possibilities to find a job.
In Europe the cultural sector represents 4.2% of GDP and it is the third sector with more employers, about seven million people, the 3.3% of the working population. Furthermore, the sector continued to increase even during the economic crisis. In fact, the number of jobs in the sector grow by 0.7% a year between 2008 and 2012, when the economy lost 0.7% % of jobs overall (ERNST & YOUNG, 2014).
The archaeological sites, the contemporary architecture, the medieval castles, and in general the traditions and the arts constitute the cultural heritage of Europe and are the beating heart of the identity and of the collective memory of European citizens.
The rich and varied cultural heritage of Europe is an attractive center for tourists visiting the area. This is why local heritage has become an important economic factor.
We plan to use eTwinning to put in contact students before each mobility, and also for implementation/follow-up, uploading the project into Twinspace for dissemination use.
The starting point of the project will be the study of each country students’ most relevant historical and/or natural monuments of their territory. 2 International groups working (by PPT) on the topic will be created.
Before and after each meeting will be applied tests to the students who probably will be involved in the mobilities.
The students will have to fill online their Europass Curriculum Vitae.
DURING the meetings some language lessons will be hold by the guest sts;
the 2 international groups will improve their Power Point;
at the end of each meeting they will present their works and there will be a debate between the 2 groups.
As concrete results will have:
a poster of each meeting;
a brochure of each meeting;
the PPT of the students;
their europass CV;
creative activities from each meeting.
Also, a web site in which will be uploaded all the activities of the meetings, and from which everyone will be allowed to download all.
Participation in this type of partnership is an opportunity for schools to change in a European dimension, to stimulate innovation and improvement processes and to promote the values of inclusion and tolerance.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 195120 Eur

Project Coordinator

INSTITUTO D’ISTRUZIONE SUPERIORE E.FERMI-G. FILANGIERI & Country: IT

Project Partners

• 3o Geniko Lykeio Katerinis
• Liceul Tehnologic ” Dr. Florian Ulmeanu”, ULMENI
• IES Sierra Luna
• DR.KEMAL NACI EKSI ANADOLU LISESI
• Rezekne State Gymnasium No1