Everybody has a story Erasmus Project

Project Title

Everybody has a story

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: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills

Project Summary

“Reading is the island of safety where you can remain hidden.”

Researches prove that continuous stimulation of the brain by reading can slow down or even prevent memory loss in the elderly. So books keep our brain’s healthy
It is also evidenced that:
• books make us better communicators
• books educate us
• books reduce stress
• books encourage us never to give up, keep moving forward, and stay positive
• books stimulate creativity

Stories and fairy tales are part of every culture and can be used as teaching tools in order to develop critical thinking, imagination, creativity, empathy, appreciation, collaboration and communication.

The objectives of the project are:
– to popularize reading and storytelling as a form of entertainment
– to develop literacy and the students’ creativity in five European schools
– to improve creativity in different art forms
– to discover similarities and diversity in five European countries
– to develop the participating students’ and teachers’ language skills
– to teach the students how to express themselves
– to include different generations (parents and grandparents; students through the whole K-12 [from kindergarten to 12th grade]).
– to strengthen volunteering and charity work
– to develop self-esteem, self-expression and self-evaluation of the participating students by the means of storytelling and performing plays.
– to develop the students reasoning skills, the ability to cooperate and to manage conflicts.
– to encourage teachers to find out whether there is an existing practice of using tales as a therapeutic method in their own countries.
– to encourage teachers of the partner countries to find or organize competitions based on performing stories.

The partner schools identified the following similar needs:
-to emphasize the multiculturalism and diversity
-to extend the school curriculum
-to stop students’ aggressive and antisocial patterns of behaviour
-to improve cultural knowledge and free thinking

The results of the project are:
– working in partnership
– questionnaires (initial and final to measure the impact of the project)
– logo and motto of the project
– e-brochure about the project for parents (in all the participants’ languages and English as well)
– web page of the project (the official page and the pages using the e-Twinning and Erasmus
Plus Platforms)
– an exhibition to promote the products of the Arts & Crafts workshops
– two e-magazines
– five scripts and recording of five plays (one for each country)
-five thematic carnivals (using characters from stories, fairytales, myths, etc.)
– promotional materials: flyers, wrist bands, bookmarks
– Erasmus+ project corners
– An illustrated e-book containing two well-known national tales/myth and a short story written by the students themselves from each partner country (15 altogether)
– online quiz about the events of two years of partnership

The students will be motivated to acquire higher degrees of competence by digital and non-digital
skills, which are useful within a multicultural society.
The main aim of the project is to raise awareness and shape the attitudes towards book reading and storytelling. The organization of book reading activities throughout the two year project period will involve the families (different generations). We think that this will help to start a positive change in this area and reading will become an internal demand for the participants (parents, grandparents, students). These effects will continue in the long-term.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 128880 Eur

Project Coordinator

Üllés, Forráskút, Csólyospálos Községi Általános Iskola és Alapfokú Müvészeti Iskola Fontos Sándor Tagintézménye & Country: HU

Project Partners

• OOU ,,Brakja Miladinovci,, Kumanovo
• Scoala Gimnaziala Alexandru Roman Auseu
• TOKI ESENKENT ORTAOKULU
• Istituto Comprensivo G.Garibaldi-G.Paolo II