Schools in English 4 Europe – Inclusive and active schools 4 innovative English in Europe” Erasmus Project

Project Title

Schools in English 4 Europe – Inclusive and active schools 4 innovative English in 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 Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Teaching and learning of foreign languages

Project Summary

The SiE4E Project is born from a cooperation between the Municipality of Orte (IT) and the Municipality of Wieliszew (PL), created with the participation to several EU Projects as “WILL” (2012-13). The friendship bond led to the idea to create a new project under the Erasmus+ Programme together with a third school from Czech Republic.
The partnership is united by the will to improve and internationalise school education practices and social inclusion through multilingualism, to allow their students to fully become citizens of Europe and access future work and education opportunities at European level.
The three schools (Istituto Omnicomprensivo Orte (IT), Gminne Gimnazjum im. Jana Pawla II (PL), Gymnazium Dr. Karla Polesného (CZ)) have a common profile of big educational institution at local level, attracting students from nearby cities and villages, committed to the development of basic and trans-sectorial skills and in fostering an active EU citizenship through international exchanges. Also, the schools are engaged in actions for disadvantaged students to assure equal educational opportunities for all.
At the base of SiE4E was the idea that the world of work and education creates the need to acquire new and cross-sectorial skills, founded on multilingualism, to allow equal opportunities of growth for everyone, removing barriers of gender, socio-economic disadvantage, disability. SiE4E aimed to address these needs through the development of an innovative strategy for the improvement of English teaching methodologies, with mobility as a learning and involvement tool for students, especially for the most disadvantaged.
SiE4E, addressing the topics “Teaching and learning of foreign languages” and “New innovative curricula/educational methods”, aimed to develop basic and transversal skills using innovative methods, to be applied on the labor market in the tourism sector, and to create high quality learning opportunities, using EU mobility as main learning tool. The target groups have been students from 14 till 16 years old and staff of teachers.
The objectives reached by SiE4E are:
Work out a new joined teaching/peer learning strategy for foreign languages;
Improve teaching and learning quality in foreign languages;
Favour social inclusion and equal access for everyone to education opportunities;
Cross-fertilisation of teaching methods and internationalisation of educational activities;
Improve the schools’ curricula to close the gap with the world of work.
Activities carried out during the 24 months of the project:
4 TRANSNATIONAL MEETING: involving the Schools’ Project Staffs
– Orte (IT) – 24-27/11/2015 project launch, timetable of activities, common methodology for project activities;
– Znojmo (CZ) – 14-17/03/2016 resolution of criticalities, organisation of 1st Short Term Exchange, 1st draft of the output, monitoring of project activities
– Wieliszew (PL) – 7-9/02/2017 evaluation of results and organisation of Short term exchanges, resolution of criticalities, 2nd draft of the output, monitoring of project activities
– Orte (IT) – 7-10 settembre 2017 evaluation of the project, draft of the final report, gathering of information, definitive draft of the manual.
3 SHORT TERM EXCHANGE involving each 90 students, all with the same methodology and the same set of activities choosen during the Staffs’ Meetings: theoric activities using the CLIL method to learn English language for tourism, practical activities for the production of materials and social contents, cultural and theme based visits.
– Orte (IT) 24-29/04/2016
– Wieliszew (PL) 16-21/10/2016
– Znojmo (CZ) 26-31/03/2017
LOCAL MONTHLY MEETINGS involving families, students, local community, PA, stakeholders, public authorities, for the dissemination of the project and the sensibilisation on main themes.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES website, facebook page and groups, press office, conferences to foster the diffusion of the project on a wider audience.
MULTIPLIER EVENTES to disseminate the intellectual output.
OUTPUT:Handbook for the teaching of English Language for tourism as resulting from the practice of project’s activities.
SiE4E had a wide impact:
-sensibilisation of local community, families, PA and stakeholders on the importance of multilingualism and EU integration
-emprovement of student’s knowledge and practice of English applied to tourism sector
-internationalisation and innovation of teaching practices
-involvement of students in disadvantage or disabled through actions of social inclusion
-enhancement of the support to the transition to the world of work through an emproved cooperation with tourism sector stakeholders
-contrast to drop-out by an improved attraction of school institutions
The participation in SiE4E allows a long term benefit given by an enhanced ability in the practice of English and the acquisition of skills in the tourism sector that will favour the transition to higher education and the world of work at international level.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 209605 Eur

Project Coordinator

Istituto Istruzione Superiore “Fabio Besta” & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Gymnázium Dr. Karla Polesného Znojmo
• Zespol Szkol w Wieliszewie Gminne Gimnazjum im. Jana Pawla II w Wieliszewie