A BETTER LIFE Erasmus Project

Project Title

A BETTER LIFE

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 : Strategic Partnerships for school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Inclusion – equity; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

Project Summary

THE MAIN AIM of our international partnership, is to provide effective, sustainable and successful transitions of young people in Europe, to awaken awareness of own satisfaction in life and to find motivation for preventing early school leave in order to get a meaningful life. The students will carry out research on life quality in the partner countries: Turkey, Croatia, Czech Republic, Italy, Portugal and Denmark. By comparing the different regions in the EU, they will discover the different life values.

Participants are all schools with different profiles, but all students are about the same age, 15-18.
About 60 teachers will be involved in the project at some point. Around 1000 students will participate – some directly and some indirectly e.g. by answering surveys.. 216 students and teachers will participate at the Learning/training/teaching activities of which there will be 6. At transnational meetings there are 2 teachers represented from each country.
It is important for the project that the schools are placed in different areas and are addressed to a large variety of different social layers.

The working language of the project is English, which will enable the students to widen their language abilities and gain fluency in using a foreign language in real situations.
The most important thing in this international project, is to motivate and enable students to find positive values in getting a Good Life.

The project has 4 important aspects: European citizenship (within culture and traditions as well as education and job possibilities), Inclusion (refugees/migrants/disabled/social vulnerable), Health (what is a healthy lifestyle and why is it important) and Friendships across borders (spare time, sports, social medias).

Our final products will be:
1) An OER website, where teachers all over Europe can find interviews, articles, photos, and lesson plans freely to be used in classes.
The website will be sustainable for at least 3 years after the end of the project. The idea is to inspire teachers in Europe to deal with the topics of A Good Life, in order to prevent early school leave.
The website will contain:
– Lessonplans (created both at each individual school and at international meetings)
– Articles (written by the students on the topics and overall on A BETTER LIFE)
– Interviews (with teachers, students and stakeholders)
– Surveys and questionnaires (on the topics)
– vlogs (short films made by mobile devices)
– Art work (created by students to show another kind of expression to what A BETTER LIFE means to them)
– Filmmaking
– Stories (by students who might have gone through tough times, and now have got a better life)
– And other things that will be developed along the way

2) Three digital magazines – one each year – with the relevant topics.
THe magazines will be created in international groups during the last International meeting of each year. Students will work together, write articles, make interviews, take photos which they prepare for the entire year. Each magazine will therefore be concentrated around the 2 topics that are in focus each year.

OBJECTIVES:
An improved understanding with students on different minority groups in society
Greater understanding and responsiveness of students to social, ethnic, linguistic and cultural diversity in and outside of Europe
A greater sense of European identity
More positive attitude of students towards the European project and the EU values
Increased competences in the English language
Lifelong learning
Improvement of internationalization strategies and management; inside the schools and through international meetings
Reinforcement of cooperation with partners from other countries and other education sectors
Linguistic, social and cultural diversity and their integration; meeting people from other countries, appreciation of diversity and differences through Europe and development of -European dimension in teaching and learning
Use of ICT throughout the project in numerous ways, i.e. apps, editing tools, websites, communication
Synergies between schools and other organisations from other fields and sectors

IMPACT on participants:
Find themselves as a part of a European citizenship
Become more open minded to other cultures
Receive a greater knowledge about our neighbours
Develop communication skills in English as a second language
Develop learning skills such as decision making, teamwork and ICT
Increase motivation in education
Discover new methodological approaches
Foster an interest in international work
Foster new friendships in an international scope
Learn about educational- and social systems

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 258643 Eur

Project Coordinator

Holbaek 10. klassecenter & Country: DK

Project Partners

• AGRUPAMENTO DE ESCOLAS DA MAIA
• Moravska strední skola s.r.o.
• Liceo Ginnasio Statale “G. d’Annunzio”
• Nazilli Menderes Anadolu Lisesi
• Srednja skola Mate Blazine Labin