Proud of Being European Erasmus Project

Project Title

Proud of Being European

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: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

INTRO
Proud of Being European is a project born from the common necessity six schools from different European countries have detected not only in their respective students, but also in their teaching staff: the need to foster the belonging to the joint project that is the European Union.

WHO WE ARE
Schools from different backgrounds in France, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania and Spain have been working together on the issue for a year via Twinspace. Although we did not really know each other, we have found both a common interest and extremely motivated work teams. The activities we have been working on have shown us there is much work yet to do, and it is only possible by meeting each other and really experiencing different ways of living the same values.

WHAT WE ARE PROPOSING
Having students coming from different cultures and backgrounds, our students and teachers need to understand multiculturalism better, in order to integrate new students in our schools.
All six schools want to promote an intercultural dialogue to strengthen our students’ knowledge about diversity and inclusion in society nowadays, and we think our project represents the variety of what living in Europe means in a wide range of implications. As such, we are proposing a six-way mobility in which students will experience how the rest of the countries live through their music, art, sports and education systems firsthand.

WHO FOR
25 students and 10 teachers will take advantage of every mobility. Considering there will be one reference teacher, and that the support teacher for every mobility will likely change, it makes a total of 150 students and at least 36 teachers benefiting from the project. Of course, we must add all students and teachers at every host school, which increases the direct impact of this activity into the thousands.The students who take advantage of this project come from bilingual programmes, and will be chosen according to strict criteria that include oral and social competences, as well as their involvement in the previous eTwinning project. Of course, students with economic and social obstacles will have priority over other students.

WHAT OUR GOALS ARE
Understanding multiculturalism and its integration in the school curriculum is a priority for us. During our mobilities, our students will have the chance to practise more foreign languages as part of linguistic diversity, with project-based learning in international teams as a pedagogical method. Our main goals are divided into three great topics.
– Regarding SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL VALUE OF EUROPEAN CULTURAL HERITAGE, we want our students to understand diversity and develop their social skills, focusing on the European values, and to foster their understanding of European citizenship spirit of tolerance towards other people, no matter their gender, religious beliefs, origin, political leanings or sexual orientation.

– Concerning INTERNATIONALISATION, we find this project is a great opportunity for them to exchange different good practices in the participant schools, later to be implemented.

– Lastly, respecting their DEVELOPMENT OF BASIC SKILLS AND KEY COMPETENCES, we aim to support oral learning through creative activities, to make students aware of the importance of sociability, empathy, integrity and social competences and to give our students a protagonist role in the teaching-learning process.

THE OUTCOME
The project will have specific results, such as learning events, Art Corners in every school, the implementation of peer assistance programmes and a Cultural eGuide that can be consulted online. Our students and teachers, as well as the whole European educational community, will benefit from the activities we carry out and the project’s results via the different dissemination resources we will use, be they specific (Twinspace, Erasmus+ Results Platform, National Agencies, methodology and educative resources websites) or broader, such as the schools’ and official social media accounts for the project.

We will evaluate these results via a Project Observatory, a resource to assess and foresee future challenges. It will make sure the Key Performance Indicators are met, such as the implementation of specific programmes, the maintenance of concrete results and a minimum number of activities carried out, students improving their oral competence and taking advantage of the mobilities and of teachers participating in other international projects. Besides, we hope the number of students participating in mobilities exceeds budget estimation. It will also help us give the project the visibility it deserves by elaborating the final report and making the main results known to the Erasmus+ programme, National Agencies and participating schools.

Finally, our project will ensure that schools are recognised locally and internationally, becoming motivated to carry out new projects and educational opportunities, more harmonious, respectful and tolerant institutions.

Project Website

https://twinspace.etwinning.net/74748/home

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 193540 Eur

Project Coordinator

Centro Público Integrado La Jota & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Collège Canterane
• Agrupamento de Escolas D. Dinis, Leiria
• Scoala Gimnaziala “Inv. Radu Ion “
• Szkola Podstawowa Nr 3 im. Marii Sklodowskiej – Curie
• Liceo Statale Alfano I