Network European Schools Team Erasmus Project

Project Title

Network European Schools Team

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: Creativity and culture; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

In a world where globalization and internationalization is a quick and important process and people have to keep up with it, our students have the constant need to improve their linguistic and communication competences by all means. This project represents a great opportunity for students to practice English language in a real context in an educational and social environment surrounded by different people who belong to a different cultural and linguistic background. Only by working together with other schools we will be able to exchange ideas and methods among every student, teacher and school involved.
“NEST” involves students in “outdoor” activities, promotes non formal learning, and students have the opportunity to learn new things from each other. In addition, the project’s results will contribute to increasing the quality of education offered by our schools, it will valorize and exploit students’ emotional intelligence and in the same time it will prevent early school leaving.
The specific objectives proposed are:
– to prevent early school leaving for almost 50 % of the students belonging to the secondary level within all partner schools for at least two years.
– to develop linguistic competences for at least 350 students until the end of the secondary level
– to promote creative communication for all involved students until September 2021
– to develop intercultural competences for all involved students until 2021
– to develop emotional intelligence for all involved students until the end of the secondary level
– to internationalize our schools
The project involves at least 350 students, aged 13 and 14 years old and 30 teachers from all six schools. Students will participate in attractive, innovative and various intercultural activities where they have the opportunity to find out information on different cultures and they can use their creativity to share it among the others. Students will learn to respect the cultural differences by working efficiently in mixed intercultural teams. Students can join this project regardless of religion, background, ethnicity or sex, since we expect to promote multiculturalism.
In order to make the project’s objectives achievable, “NEST” has proposed the following topics to optimize students’ creativity, to gain new skills on non verbal communication, to use symbols, music and art to convey a message:
– communication through outdoor activities.
– communication through drama and role play
– communication through art
– communication through music
– communication through body language
– communication through traditional children games
The methodologies used during the activities related to these 6 topic are based on formal, non formal, informal, creative and communicative methods such as “outdoor” learning, icebreaking, workshops, drama and role playing, reflections on emotional intelligence, games and trips, mime and art, team work for the final products of the project.
The projects results will be reflected in increasing the quality of education, preventing students to leave school, developing their intercultural competences and language skills, exploring self emotional intelligence and creative communication for all participants. More, the final products of the project will be the following materials:
– a brochure for Art activities
– calendar to present the outdoor activities
– posters to promote a cultural objective
– a dictionary to contain words related to communication types promoted in the project
– videos to highlight the traditional games, drama and role play
At the beginning and at the end of the project participants will answer questionnaires to evaluate the project’s activities impact and a self-assessment form will be filled in by the participants to assess the project improvement.
The project’s results will be make known within the six partner schools, local communities (other schools, parents, city halls, educational and youth centers, libraries etc.) and national institutions.
This will be dissemination of results among project participants, staff, parents, directors of institutions, where our schools are located.. The final products will be used in contests, educational symposiums, local and national conferences.
The project will be available in both print and e-book form.
All the participant schools will work together to increase the project’s quality and value. Teachers and students will improve themselves in the teaching and learning process. As the project is based on creativity in communication and preventing early school leaving, the participants will become more motivated and eager to be a part of this project.
As schools we will all learn from each other and our internationalization plan will come true. Also, this will lead us to catch up with 21st century skills. In the local, national and European area we will be leading schools to motivate other institutions about creativity in communication and preventing early school leaving.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 180540 Eur

Project Coordinator

Scoala Gimnaziala Nr. 1 & Country: RO

Project Partners

• ISTITUTO COMPRENSIVO MILANI
• Istanbul Ticaret Odasi Bilim ve Sanat Merkezi
• Zakladni skola Havirov-Moravska 29/497 okres Karvina, prispevkova organizace
• Darica Denizyildizlari Ortaokulu
• Ogolnoksztalcaca Szkola Baletowa im. Olgi Slawskiej-Lipczynskiej