The Identity of the Region – Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. Erasmus Project

Project Title

The Identity of the Region – Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.

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: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Teaching and learning of foreign languages

Project Summary

The project “The Identity of the Region – Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow” involves two-year cooperation between six partner schools in an English language (Greece, Bulgaria, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Italy) coordinated by the Polish school.
The idea motivating all the schools is their development in European dimension, where a special pressure is put to the equality of educational opportunities, promotion of high level education, personal development and the values of identity and tolerance towards other cultures. Thus the main goal of the undertaking is to support the youth in acquiring and mastering basic skills and key competences, particularly the ability to freely communicate in English and digital competences by exchanging good practice. Moreover, deepening the knowledge of traditions, history, culture of all partner schools on the basis of regional heritage as a source of inspiration for creating various materials will stimulate intergenerational dialogue, will support the social, educational and personal development of beneficiaries of the project.
All the school societies will be involved in project activities, including students aged 15-19. Teachers are the active side, who will enrich the project with their experience in international cooperation, pedagogical and personal competences.
There have been planned plenty of activities based on the interaction between partners. The schools will cooperate in accomplishing the tasks planned and exchange experience required at every stage of the project. Each school will be responsible for the set task. They have been planned so as to make use of the potential of each institution.
During two years there will be six five-day mobilities for students and teachers in each partner country, in which about fifty people from each school will take part. Additionally, two three-day training meetings for teachers will take place, in Poland and Italy. During the student and teacher mobilities, and between them, students and teachers will be deriving from partner experience and expertise, exchanging opinions about the tasks being accomplished and making use of their potential with the aim of developing abilities and expanding their knowledge.
The coordinator of the project will be responsible for the relevant performance of the project, being in touch with all project teams appointed in the schools. Means of regular communication have been planned, ways of preventing risk have been defined, appropriate support and preparation before departures, the methods of accomplishing respective tasks have been planned, with the wide use of eTwinning platform. The constant evaluation is to enable to assess to what extent planned goals will have been achieved. Promotion and dissemination measures will be aimed at a wide group of recipients: in the school and local environments, through media, social networking sites, the Internet, conferences, assemblies and on Erasmus+ Project Results platform.
There are certain results expected: increase in student language competences, more extensive use of ICT tools in the process of teaching and learning, including eTwinning platform, expanding the teacher expertise with new teaching methods and techniques by participating in workshops and exchanging good practice, developing cooperation with cultural institutions, building up the openness and tolerance towards other cultures.
The cooperation with the European schools will influence the school staff, students and residents in a positive way, will make them more open to alterity, will enhance understanding and tolerance. Implemented materials will enrich the resources of school libraries and will compose appealing documents for using in classes or other extracurricular activities. Products as brochures, city adverts will be forwarded to local tourist information centres for the benefit of local communities and promoting the regions in the future. The teachers will be good role models motivating students to act and achieve determined goals in their own development. Moreover, developing teachers’ competences in a didactic area will expand educational opportunities of subsequent generations of students. The achieved results will be extensively used during eTwinning project, which is planned just after completing the project actions.
The main outcome of the project will be an online magazine accompanied by paper and digital materials, which enrich popular science and didactic resources for teaching and learning foreign languages in all the schools. There will be information about the countries, cities and schools, from which the participants come, guidebooks about local monuments and gardens of remembrance, information about customs, rites, folk costumes, handicraft, dying occupations in the regions, profiles of famous celebrities, attractions of the regions, portfolios of future occupations.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 197395 Eur

Project Coordinator

Zespol Szkol Ogolnoksztalcacych im. Henryka Sienkiewicza w Szydlowcu & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Secondary School “Otets Paisiy”
• 5o Geniko Lykeio Petroupolis
• SOLSKI CENTER ZA POSTO, EKONOMIJO IN TELEKOMUNIKACIJE LJUBLJANA
• Liceo Classico Statale “G. Carducci”
• Liceul Teoretic German Johann Ettinger