Complexus: how the school can have a key role in the current complex reality Erasmus Project

Project Title

Complexus: how the school can have a key role in the current complex reality

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: Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; Pedagogy and didactics; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

“Complexus: how the school can have a key role in the current complex reality” is aimed at promoting the sense of belonging to the local, national and European community, by strengthening knowledge and awareness, in the generation of “European natives”. The partners intend to strengthen the work on the competences of citizenship, in an international dimension that wants to promote the founding values of the European Union. Each partner has been involved for its interest and previous experiences on this topic.

The project through students’ mobility and teacher training aims to activate through education future EU citizens.

The aim of the project is to re-create among the partners’ schools a EU School Parliament with its committees: in this way pupils will truly understand by acting directly the whole process of representative democracy, a theme always crucial, but especially imperative in these years when the issue of democracy is taken for granted and the value of democracy is at risk.
The schools will represent an international body, able to cooperate and work together (with new digital technologies support) on different and vital issues, built on strengths of each school.

Each committee will be transnational: the mobility will be the moment in which students (elected in their own school), coming from the countries involved, will act as “experts” on the chosen topic. Once come back, they will transfer to their mates and the all institute practices and ideas born and shared during the mobility activity. These situations will be the opportunity to work with competence-based methodology (and in particular on Training Learning Approach), seen that students will act in real contexts and starting from real problems. The project will be the occasion for teachers to strengthen their professional skills, according to recent pedagogical strategies.

The main topics of the project are: democracy, culture, human rights and anti-discrimination, environmental sustainability, eco-tourism.
The main goal of the project is the pupils’ acquisition of:
– social-civic and citizenship skills
– skills in communication in foreign languages and in digital media
– spirit of initiative and entrepreneurship
– cultural awareness and expression.

The specific OBJECTIVES of the project are:
1 Building educational communities to develop a sense of belonging to the local, national and EU community
2 Understanding and applying the mechanisms of political decision-making in society by electing own representatives/delegates (active citizens)
3 Create real life-situations where to actively participate as members of the community with service-learning projects, oriented towards the enhancement of the common good
4 Exchanging collaborative experiences of building communities at a distance and comparing the educational experiences of active citizenship achieved in schools.

Different TARGET GROUPS will be involved in the project:
1. DIRECT BENEFICIARIES, who will actively take part in the activities: n. 72 pupils aged 10/13 years old and about 15 teachers will take part to the international exchanges; at least 500 pupils involved in schools and at least 60/70 teachers from the four partner schools will be involved in the initial training and during the project implementation; about 150 parents and families will host international students or will be involved in the exchanges and will experiment intercultural at home exchange
2. INDIRECT BENEFICIARIES: about 5000 people will be reached through activities’ outputs, events and media; about 80 teachers will develop new educational skills; about 800 students attending the school will get in contact with a new intercultural and international environment; operators of local associations will be involved in the project (social cooperatives, musical and cultural association, museums); schools in the neighbourhood; families of students; local communities: through the variety of activities implemented through the project citizens will get in touch with the projects and its tangible results.

The project intends to be a stepping stone into Europe: Schools Partners through the activities will bring their best at EU level, enhancing their strength and reinforce their educational methods by sharing best practices and developing new, effective teaching patterns. The partnership will continue. Thanks to the use of E-twinning and to its own characterization the project has a long life ahead.
The potential of the project is to be easily replicated, thereby emphasizing an added EU value. The Committee pattern can be reproduced and transformed internally: new committees focusing of different issues will be implemented.

If Complexus is granted, future projects will be planned to continue the collaboration, enlarging the network, in order to share innovative teaching methodologies. The presence of the Serbian school is particularly relevant for the future integration of the Country in the EU.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 109655 Eur

Project Coordinator

ISTITUTO COMPRENSIVO RITA LEVI MONTALCINI DI ISEO & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Szkola Podstawowa im.Antoniego Kucharczyka
• Colegio Los Abetos
• ecole vladislav ribnikar