A new learning arena Erasmus Project

Project Title

A new learning arena

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 adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development); Pedagogy and didactics; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

The background of the project was to develop a pedagogy and didactics for technology that is available for every student nowadays, in and outside the classroom. The project researched on the topic to add a high degree of innovative and digital learning/teaching concepts/methods.

Objectives:
1) Collect national experiences on adult learning, selvdirected learning and cooperative learning strategies from 5 participating countries and share them on three consecutive partnership meetings with the aim of achieving a better understanding of the whole area.
2) After 8 months of project work to identify common features and differences to such an extent that the knowledge can be translated into more general concepts, the partners produces and evaluates
3) After 12 months of project work to translate the knowledge gained in specific teaching / learning process in the participants ‘own classes and within the partners’ own field
4) To use a common evaluation method to analyze the results of the individual of experiments
5) After 17 months of project work to be able to describe and demonstrate applications of the pedagogical main elements through national multiplier events
6) During the entire project to establish and maintain communication with partners’ professional networks via webblog and a continuous sharing of information via the Internet and social media

Number and profile of the participating countries:
PIC 919717141 Piareersarfiit (now: Majoriaq) are Job, guidance and qualification centres in Greenland, and there are 17 centres which are placed in the cities.
PIC 948307988 The “A Rocca” Associazione Artistica Culturale located in the northern part of Sicily, in the Province of Messina, is a very active non-profit organization.
PIC 945173724 Sudurnes Comprehensive College was established in 1976 and has about 1.000 student and a staff of 100. The school is both preparing the students for higher education, as University and for craftsmanship – such as marine engineers, electricians and carpenters.
PIC 919704434 Piareersarfik Nuuk is a guidance center where young people can get the grades they need to start an education. They have both counselors and teachers working here. They have around 100 students at all times.
PIC 930926364 CEPROF – Centros Escolares de Ensino Profissional Lda. (Vocational Schools Teaching Centres)- is the owner of the VET school Escola Profissional de Espinho (ESPE), close to Porto in Portugal.
PIC 949003575 IES “Francisco Ayala” teach compulsory secondary education and upper secondary, with the usual age range from 12 to 18 years old. (Resigned June 2017)

Description of undertaken main activities:
1) The partners collected national experiences on adult learning, selfdirected learning and cooperative learning strategies. The material were shared on three consecutive partnership meetings. The first two meetings was also used to visit vocational schools and schools that use IT in teaching/training in various ways.
2) The third meeting was used to collect all the material and knowledge into a pilot test guide and frame and questionnaires that all partners executed after the third meeting. They identified common features and differences and translated them into two ways of pilot testing methods. The spanish partner decided to resign from the project during the third meeting.
3) Four partners described the specific learning / teaching process in their own classes and within their own field and met again at a transnational partnership meeting for the fourth time. The Icelandic partner did not make it to the meeting due to a sudden sickleave just before the meeting.
4) The project did not manage to analyze the results of the individual experiments due to the project managers sudden sick-leave spring/summer 2018 that lead to cancellation of the last transnational partnership meeting. The main findings and the results from the questionnaires were collected in the final report on the project.
Objectives 5 and 6 were not achieved.

Results and impact attained:
The result of the project is a final report on main findings from pilot tests in four partner countries and results from the questionnaires for the involved students, teachers and parents which is uploaded on project results platform. See description of main findings in section 5.3
The impact of the project happened mainly in the local educational institutions where the partners work. It is not clear how much the project’s website has been used.

Project manager resigned officially in august 2018 due to a sudden sickness in the spring and it is the main reason why the project stopped. The last goals where to describe and demonstrate applications of the pedagogical main elements through national multiplier events and make a dissemination strategy. They were not met.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 63477 Eur

Project Coordinator

Piareersarfiit & Country: GL

Project Partners

• CEPROF – CENTROS ESCOLARES DE ENSINO PROFISSIONAL LDA
• Fjölbrautaskóli Suðurnesja
• Piareersarfik nuuk
• Associazione Artistica Culturale “A Rocca”
• I.E.S. Francisco Ayala de Granada