Hiking in Europe Erasmus Project

Project Title

Hiking in Europe

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: Open and distance learning; Health and wellbeing; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage

Project Summary

The upper secondary school at Laugar has the privilege of being a small boarding school in the countryside in the vicinity of many of Iceland’s most important natural wonders. Many school teachers are keenly interested in outdoor activities and physical activity, and we wanted to create a project related to it and nature. We attended a Erasmus+ Conference in Tenerife last october, where we set out our interest in working with elements such as public health, nature and all kinds of physical activities. And get in touch with a school in the Czech Republic that was interested in participating in this. From this it came the idea of the project Hiking in Europe.
The preparation and the planning of the project will be in the hands of FL (us), and GFMP will be participating in the project. Participating students will be eight to ten from each school along with two to three teachers from each school.
Framhaldskólinn á Laugum (FL) is a small boarding school at Iceland about 450 km from the capital Reykjavík. We have about 90 students from the age 16 to 22. The school have tree courses of study for final exams of upper secondary school: Physical educations and sport science, natural science ad social science.
Gymnázium F. M. Pelcla (GFMP) is located in Rychnov, a small town about 150 km from Prague. Currently, thera are about 290 students at the age of 15-19 at the school and they are primarily prepared for their university studies. There are all general subjects taught at GFMP: Czech, Maths, History, Geography, Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Social Science, ICT, Physical Education, Music and Art. Concerning foreign languages, English is compulsory for all students. Students of the last two years of their studies have a choice to enroll in voluntary classes to widen their knowledge of the subjects of their interest and to be well prepared for their university studies.
The idea is that in the beginning the project leaders of both schools will visit each other and travel around the local areas of the schools, getting to know the travelling culture of the countries, looking at the biggest tourist attractions and share knowledge about different hiking routes, marking and situations (weather and other conditions). In Iceland we will be focusing on the right equipment for mountain and wilderness hiking in Icelandic nature, as well as exploring the spectacular Icelandic nature and introducing the powerful volunteer work of the ICE-Rescue team. We will be in close cooperation with ICE-Rescue where the FL students will go through their 96 hours course „Björgunarsveitarmaður 1“ (Rescue 1) where they will learn the fundamentals of rescue work in the wilderness. They will take courses like Mountain Travelling, First Aid and Search Technique along with others courses. In the Czech Republic we will be exploring the Eagle Mountains (Orlické hory) from various points of view: geography (including weather and markings), history and legends. We’ll invite specialists to give our students extra lessons on specificities of that particular area. Our students will also take a course on mountain travelling, first aid and search technique organised by the Mountain Rescue Team in the Eagle Mountains.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 25843,12 Eur

Project Coordinator

Framhaldsskolinn Laugum & Country: IS

Project Partners

• Gymnazium Frantiska Martina Pelcla, Rychnov nad Kneznou, Hrdinu odboje 36