Learning for 21st Century: skills for the future Erasmus Project

Project Title

Learning for 21st Century: skills for 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: Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development); ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

The idea of our ”Learning for 21st Century: skills for the future” project comes from the need to fulfill the following European priorities:
1) TO DESIGN INNOVATIVE USE OF TECHNOLOGIES
2) TO PROMOTE PLURILINGUALISM
This project brings at the same time significant innovations, especially in good teaching practices and methodology.
Using web 2.0 will help not only to promote publication and sharing of documents but to promote real collaborative work and intraclass as well as interclass interaction.
We’ ll also promote a language learning environment for young pupils by improving their ability to communicate and co-operate with people through language and CLIL approaches and web 2.0.
We’ ll increase children’s exposure to European languages and the quality of teaching through the implementation of the CLIL approach within the European demand of acquiring a mother tongue plus other foreign languages.

We would like to achieve these goals by creating inclusive educational contexts where our students can experience web 2.0. The pupils will learn through modern foreign languages whilst discovering the environment in cooperation with European schools traversing language and cultural boundaries and providing future citizens with tools which will develop their intercultural competence.

The two main objectives, effective use of WEB 2.0 and language learning, will be closely integrated and complemented with one another and integrated in the curricular contents of the schools.

The project partners have met on the eTwinning portal and aim to carry out our project with the use of new technologies.
They are from Italy, Cyprus, Germany (= coordinator), Spain, Portugal and Belgium and have various economic backgrounds. Some of them have a lot of pupils with socio-economic disadvantages and migrants and bring various complementary experiences to our partnership. In that way, our project has a European dimension and the results will be usable in different contexts.

Teachers and student will be involved in the project in the following activities:
– E-CLIL blog that promotes the philosophy of Education Web 2.0 allowing teachers and learners to interact and collaborate with each other as part of an educational network community. It will provide a meaningful learning context to develop cross-curricula topics common to all countries involved in the project´s partnership.
– PRODUCT: AN OPEN WEB 2.0 blog using web 2.0 not only to promote publication and sharing of documents but to promote real collaborative work and intraclass as well as interclass interaction
– eTwinning project: CLIL- resources e-books for teachers creating a set of teaching and learning CLIL materials suitable and graduated for learners of different ages
– THE E-CLIL E-BOOKS are a collection of units and lesson plans that are aimed to be transferable to other contexts by giving teachers a detailed description.
– CULTURAL BOX: all the teachers will prepare a collection of cultural materials which they will use during the exchanges.
– PROJECT MEETINGS: during the meetings we will exchange products, review plans and evaluate progress. Regular project meetings will ensure that all partners are actively involved and that deadlines are met.
– EXCHANGE OF PUPILS: each country will bring a group of children, so in the host country we will form a multicultural group of multilingual children. During the day they will participate in CLIL workshops in English and in the universal languages.
More than 3000 pupils from six countries will work together online in mixed, international teams on the learning platform to gain an intercultural perspective on their shared topics. For all of them, it will be their first encounter with people from other cultural backgrounds and the first time they could use languages for real comunication.

The project will contribute to raise the European profile at local and national level by providing evidence of how the European dimension can be integrated and bring innovation into the school curriculum.

The dissemination plan has been designed to ensure that the outcomes of the project are appropriately recognized, demonstrated and implemented on a wide scale.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 0 Eur

Project Coordinator

Walburgisschule Werl & Country: DE

Project Partners

• 1 Istituto comprensivo di Settimo Torinese
• Gymnasium Aradippou
• vrije basisschool buitengewoon onderwijs Ter Dreve Type 2
• Colegio Pureza de María
• Agrupamento de escolas de Alpendorada