Be smart in today’s European digital world Erasmus Project

Project Title

Be smart in today’s European digital world

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; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

During the last decades our society has been experiencing a period of great social, cultural and technological changes. This project will principally deal with many aspects of today’s digital media and the way they shape young people’s identity, their culture, perceptions, lifestyle, and commodity consumption. In general, the aim of the project is to allow students to understand, interpret, critically evaluate and create media. Successful digital communication, knowledge and competence is paid special attention to. The project is part of a determined and consistent work on the European profile of the participating schools, which all intend to make a contribution to the understanding amongst Europe’s youth.

Our main project aims will be to allow our students to access, critically evaluate, and create digital media (digital media literacy).
During the project the students will be sensitized to the influences and complex strategies of digital media they are being subjected to and that exert an enormous impact on their culture, social interactions, and psychological well-being. Furthermore, we will help our students to deconstruct the powerful and often misleading messages of media, especially on social media platforms such as Instagram and Facebook.
One of our main goals is to enable our students to become well-informed ethical consumers of digital (hardware) media and active citizens who will take a stand on important global issues such as fair work and sustainability.

In order to reach our common goal, the students will be enabled to develop their basic, social and media skills (ICT, foreign language, problem-solving, effective communication, creativity and critical thinking).

As teachers it will be our task to support the students in envisioning multiple solutions and turning ideas into action as well as helping our students to appreciate the value of education, training and lifelong learning. Therefore we will promote strategies that will improve internal collaboration, the inclusion of students from all backgrounds and prevent early drop-out rates.

Considering the remarkable topical importance of the project and the wide choice of cross-curricular learning opportunities it will provide, all the student population and teaching staff of the four partner schools will be significantly and consistently involved in the project stages and activities.
Several hundreds of participants will take an active part in the collaborative project, from its initial planning, realization, to its final stage, where results will be presented to the schools, students’ parents and the broad community.

Students and teachers respectively will regularly discuss the quality of their work and give suggestions about improving the project contents, management and results. Self-assessment questionnaires and surveys on the students’ motivation, opinions, personal involvement and work progress will be carried out at different project stages.

To ensure that all project activities deadlines are properly met, a project calendar will be produced which will record chronologically all activities. At each stage of the project, it will show what needs to be done and what has already been achieved. In this way the project participants will be reminded in time.

The four learning/teaching/training activities will contribute to create a more interactive and engaging learning environment and to develop the students’ collaboration and responsibility for the project’s success. The activities will encourage the participating students to introduce a more personalised and creative approach to the project topic “digital media literacy”, boost their problem-solving skills and improve their confidence.

The effects on the partner schools as well as on the students are manifold. At the institutional level, the European profile of the schools will be sharpened in order to meet current and future challenges within Europe. The ability to appreciate other cultures, to practice tolerance and adaptability as well as to gain self-confidence are crucial aspects in order to have better job opportunities in professional life and to counteract emerging xenophobia.

To measure the project impact, feedback questionnaires and surveys among students and some members of the target groups (teaching staff and students’ families), which reflect the long-term effectiveness as well as the changes and successes in everyday school life, will be conducted systematically. These impact measurement indicators will provide the important and objective information on the project’s progress, the level of student motivation and performance, and on changing perspectives, attitudes and behaviour. Other exemplary project impact indicators will be: the consistency and quality of our students’ research findings, presentations and material produced and uploaded; the size of the visual material shared (videos, posters, photos, brochures, booklets) etc.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 96458 Eur

Project Coordinator

Berufskolleg des Kreises Olpe & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Instituto de Educação e Formação do Sorraia, Lda.
• Liceul Matei Basarab Craiova
• I.I.S.”Leonardo da Vinci – Fascetti”