SWEETS’ TASTE ALONG EUROPE Erasmus Project

Project Title

SWEETS’ TASTE ALONG EUROPE

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; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Recognition (non-formal and informal learning/credits)

Project Summary

The project is a cooperation for innovation and exchange of good practices among 5 partners: Liceul Tehnologic Dumitru Motoc from Galati, Romania, Colegiul Tehnic Transilvania from Brasov, Romania, Sule Muzaffer Buyuk Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi from Turkey, IPSSEOA from Italy and Bragamob Training Centre from Portugal, over a period of 24 months.
Following the many years of experience in teaching and observation, each partner identified as a big problem, the tendency of the students to be more and more isolated. They are not anymore able to act in groups, to be accepted as sociable people by the others because they are not enough prepared to face society ‘s demand.
In this regard, the project called „SWEETS’ TASTE ALONG EUROPE” will have as the main goal creating a framework for giving students strategies and tools to increase their abilities for social inclusion and for the teacher to acquire the necessary tools to combat social alienation. The planned activities of researching, preparing together and serving specific sweets will be used as the main tool in combating social alienation and will contribute to give the target-group members the self-esteem and respect for the others.
The project main aims are :
– increasing the social skills of students belonging to a target-group chosen from every partner by encouraging them to work in groups and by sharing results.
– enhancing the teachers’ professional competence of setting-up and teaching by workshops on personal development and motivation.
-decreasing the schools’ dropout rates by promoting learning to learn.
The project’s main results, which we consider innovative by the idea they bring, that we can socialize, interact and communicate better by cooking and tasting sweets, are A Sweets’ Booklet, An interactive Europe’s Sweet Map, videos made by students on the topics like personal events, sweets as friendship messengers, invite a friend to dinner and a glossary of ingredients and flavours/spices used to prepare sweets and desserts in the partner countries’ cuisine translated in English and then in each national language of the participant countries. Each partner will contribute equally to the obtaining of the project results: apart from those already mentioned, a website and a Facebook project group will be created, also 2 newsletters with results and activities, a CD Rom to spread the project’s experience through a media delivery, flyers, booklets as dissemination means, questionnaires and interpretation of results where we can watch the progress, E-twinning upload, statistics about students’ attendance and exam results and their participation in the school projects at the end of each year of project, promotional materials will be made, interviews with students, a display corner in each partner institution and a forum on the project web site.
The participants are 36 highschool students from the 2nd and 3rd levels going to 3 learning and teaching activities in the partner countries: Galati, Romania, Turkey and Italy and 16 teachers to participate in a course in Portugal where they will be trained to teach the students to become more socially competitive and adaptable. There will also be 2 Project meetings, at the beginning of the project in Brasov, Romania and at the end of it in Portugal. Also, before each learning and teaching transnational activities for students in Catania – Italy, Galati- Romania and Manavgat-Turkey and before the course in Portugal we will have an online meeting with all the local coordinators where we will establish all the details concerning the preparation, the planning and monitoring of the meeting. A min of 100 students and minimum of 40 teachers functioning as target groups will be the beneficiaries of this partnership per total.
The selection of the participants to the mobilities will be well-organized and according to well-established and published criteria and ranking will be done according to some agreed scales.
Participants will be involved in promoting the project at the school and local level, in dissemination activities at writing the press articles, in creating the final products by the means of the IT and developing the workshops on social inclusion and personal development. The local workshops facilitated by the teachers who were trained helped by other teachers will empower the students’ capacity to increase their social skills but also will multiply the training outcomes.
The dissemination will consist of the press releases, published both in local and national press, at least one every 6 months, the project website published in a dedicated space, demonstrative lessons, a CD Rom to spread the project’s experience, the 2 newsletters, flyers, brochures, booklets, workshops, school magazines, at conferences and other events using promotional materials to make the project and its results known.
The project requires further international cooperation for more research in the innovativeness of the method.

Project Website

http://sweetstaste.wordpress.com/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 105138 Eur

Project Coordinator

Liceul de Turism si Alimentatie Dumitru Motoc & Country: RO

Project Partners

• Sule Muzaffer Buyuk Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi
• APLICAPROPOSTA LDA
• Colegiul Tehnic Transilvania Brasov
• I.S.I.S.-ISTITUTO STATALE ISTRUZIONE SUPERIORE “LUIGI DE’ MEDICI”