Our hands and minds to become an active and responsible tourist looking forward to promoting our own regions in the future. Erasmus Project

Project Title

Our hands and minds to become an active and responsible tourist looking forward to promoting our own regions in the 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: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage

Project Summary

The project “Our hands and minds to become an active and responsible tourist looking forward to promoting our own regions in the future” aims at:
-promoting ecological and cultural awareness, increasing metodological competence of teachers involved in the project;
-supporting new participating and intercultural approach towards heritage and supporting social initiatives which consider international dialogue of students from the early stage of life;
-make teachers and students aware of European heritage of regions;
-exchange of good practices including social link, critical thinking and teens involvement.
School involved into the project are from : Greece, Romania, Latvia, Turkey, Poland. The location of schools help achieve intercultural and intenational dialogue of nations.
Students involved in the project come from different social background needing great support. There are about 10 students involved from each partner school including students with less learning chances.
Description of activities:
-learning new skills of communication using ICT by using various communicative methods;
-getting to know places in Europe of the world heritage; becoming more aware of caring for it in the future by empirical methods;
-learning new strategies to achieve some goals;
-paying attention on ecological, touristic, cultural aspects of regions environment by observation and measurable methods;
-learning critical thinking towards project aspects by communicative methods
-getting to know how to make attractive professional films;
Methods used while carrying out the project: active learning methods,communicative and empirical methods, project method, debates, discussions, SWOT,
Short description of the results:
The results are going to be material and non-material.
-lesson plans in each partner language considering ecological and cultural aspects of the project;
-introducing new methods to pedagogical work;
-analysis reports of questionnaries, interviews etc.involving the increase of awareness cultural heritage of regions in Europe;
-increasing language competence among teachers and students;
-increasing group cooperating competence, self-confidemce among students;
-increasing experience of leading multicultural projects;
-increasing awareness of the influence of implementation project results among locals;
-quality of schools improvements;
-increasing of cooperation between local societies and schools;
-learning abilities of using ICT tools among teachers and students.
We are going to share good practices experience with other sectors: local ecological organizations, local and regional heriatge associations, other schools in regions. The results of project will be provided to local governments by ICT.
After having completed the project all teachers will implement observing good practices into their daily pedagogical work by: organizing ecological, tourist, sports school activities and events, supporting students self-involvement. Teachers will create new attitudes towards cultural European heritage in schools by putting innovative lesson plans into practice. They will also gain new experience to become leaders or partners in eTwinning projects.
Each school is going to use project results and to implement activities after having completed the project.
Fast social and cultural changes in Europe make teachers develop their teaching skills all the time. They still ought to learn new innovative methods and tools to provide their schools with new and practical and effective methodological and pedagogical skills not to forget about our European cultural heritage at the same time.
Participating in the project will make other school teachers aware of posiibilities of eTwinning programme. The annual eTwinning events are going to be held in each pertner school after completing the project. As a result, an increase of language of communication and logistic competence will be noticed among teachers and students, which is going to be a background to lead other multucultural project in the future.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 143597 Eur

Project Coordinator

Zespol Szkolno-Przedszkolny w Mostach & Country: PL

Project Partners

• 3o Gymnasio Larisas
• SCOALA GIMNAZIALA “ANDREI SAGUNA” DEVA
• Daugavpils Valsts gimnazija
• Aysegul Arsoy Ortaokulu