Pursuing integral well-being through digital and creative skills development Erasmus Project

Project Title

Pursuing integral well-being through digital and
creative skills development

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: Health and wellbeing; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

A team of three primary education schools in Spain, Wales and Finland, who had contacted previously for other minor projects and sharing activities, highlighted the need in their students to promote healthy habits, well-being and foster creativity. This issue was in fact reinforced by several papers and reports coming from the European Union in which youth obesity and other harmful habits at these ages were growing at alarming rates.
The goals of the project at stake are therefore to improve healthy habits and well-being on a life-long basis and to integrate digital skills not only as mere tools but also as means for acquiring and learning new strategies that, together with key competences such as learning to learn or Initiative and Entrepreneurship Competence (Lisbon Treaty, 2007) will equipped our students with meaningful competences. Creativity will have a major role since creative minds often produce creative and touching answers to different problems and we truly believe that in a world dominated by social networks, our students’ work can make a difference in this respect and spread its goals among other schools and students in the influence area of our three particular schools. Furthermore, after some meetings our three schools have had, we can guarantee that between the three schools involved in the project there is considerable proven expertise in the areas of well-being, healthy habits, development of creativity and ICT.
The project will run for two years. Each year, two classes of pupils from each school (approximately 150 children) will work on a common programme of activities in their own school. The activities will develop children’s well-being self-awareness and creativity together with the new technologies by challenging them to share at individual level first, then at local level and then at community level different well-being experiences, the resources elaborated along the project, such as the Youth Wellbeing Recipe book, Sports guide for fun and health, strategies and infographics to deal with social situations such as bullying, and one of the most ambitious goals, which is a TV programme broadcast where children will highlight and analyze the problems found at these levels (healthy habits and well-being) in their community and the solutions they have designed to make a different in their local community. These activities will also be used to develop children’s multilingual skills and provide opportunities to communicate in a foreign language.
From each school, ten pupils will visit the other schools to form a class of 30 pupils. They will work in mixed nationality groups and take part in activities taught by teachers from all three schools. These activities will continue to build on the skills the pupils have already learnt, using digital technology, realia, carrying out different healthy diet workshops, implementing physical activities to learn how important to keep fit is, elaborating infographics to spread key ideas and easy to use guides so that their knowledge can be spread among other students and places. All in all, these tasks will be done while communicating in a second language.
Digital resources will be iPads, laptops, computers, and educational apps such as Book Creator, Madlipz, Inspiration Maps, Pic Collage, Genial.ly, Glogster, and so on so forth.
The results and impact envisaged are that the pupils will improve their well being, healthy life style, creativity and digital and multi-lingual skills. Pupils will also increase their confidence at taking part in an unfamiliar situation and will understand the importance of communication skills to put important messages across . They will develop an understanding of other countries and be more open to accepting a challenge. The essence of cooperation among countries of the European Union and the importance of working and collaborating over political and physical borders will be inherent too. The impact on the three schools, will be that teachers improve their assessment and teaching of healthy habits and well-being, Digital and Multi-lingual skills through and fostering Creativity as an essential tool to solve different problems and solutions and overcome any burden they may encounter. Several assemblies and meetings will be celebrated in order to share both students and teachers expertise and experience. They will also develop other skills from their role(s) participating in a major project. The schools will develop their expertise in assessment, teaching and learning of wellbeing , digital and creative skills.
All in all, by the end of the project our students will surely have acquired new skills that come from the administration of a European project and will have developed good relationships with schools in two other countries paving the way for future projects and partnerships, consolidating this way the sense of European Citizenship.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 90220 Eur

Project Coordinator

CEIP Maestro Francisco Martínez Bernal & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Keski-Palokan koulu
• Cadoxton Primary