Stand Up to Start Up Erasmus Project

Project Title

Stand Up to Start Up

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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Migrants’ issues

Project Summary

*Context
“Stand Up to Start Up”was based on a need analysis applied to the teams of teachers and students of all the partners. The present partnership had as main aim to develop the involvement spirit of our students .
*Objectives
Our project was based on 4 main objectives:
1. Develop the social consciousness spirit
2. Generate social value and social change
3. Promote the cultural heritage
4. Boost skills of the 21st century (ICT and foreign languages).
* Participant organizations
There were 4 countries and 4 institutions involved in the partnership, from Spain, Poland, Greece and Romania. Unfortunately, the Greek partners dropped.
Students (12-15 years old) were the main actors of the partnership.The project was meant to stimulate creativity, sense of initiative and responsibility.The total number of students that benefited directly and indirectly of such a project is of approximately 1.800. There were teams of teachers from different areas. Approximately 70 teachers will be indirectly affected. Families of the students also participated,approximately 50 families.The local community were also involved helping to disseminate the project’s results.
The activities of our partnership encouraged students to make a difference in their communities by developing responsibility and the civic spirit.There were organized workshops related to learning skills, literacy skills (ICT literacy) and life skills focusing on flexibility, initiative, and leadership.
The impact on participants’ attitude, knowledge and skills has been considerable .The tangible results of the project are being presented on the website of the project.
*Description of main activities achieved
We have managed to get many students from different groups involved in working on solidarity issues related to the Project. In general, they have done it in subjects such as Ethical Values, Education for Citizenship or Psychology.
Our goal was to select a small group of students as “ambassadors” of the ideas and work of their peers. We started at the local level, where the students have verified the solidarity programs in their immediate surroundings. They have done questionnaires, surveys, analysis of both, power -point and video recordings about the issue followed by volunteering work at some institutions in town. The three main topics were: “Social Involvement in our Community” “Why being socially sympathetic” “Hazak, a comic design story”.
We have addressed one of the great problems of the moment: the refugees. The students have created a story with comic book designs that have been exposed or dramatized later on and they have even registered an interview with a real refugee from Syria living in our town. They have also attended a demonstration for the rights of refugees, an exhibition and a conference on the same theme, organized by institutions outside their own school .Our students have also taken part in a great number of workshops for discussion, T-shirt and cards designs, games related to enhance solidarity awareness and poster of the project to stay at school for ever.
*Results and Impact
The mutual engagement of students and teachers in planning, doing and revising partnership activity has been a fundamental characteristic of our project therefore the impact on participants have been considerable.
The project has had an impact on attitude, knowledge and skills. The students have enhanced their communication skills ICT skills and sensitiveness.
We also expect to extend relations with schools from abroad and to anchor the network of school working together on an international level.
We think all the target groups involved in this project have become motivated to get involved in socio-cultural actions and to improve foreign languages abilities.
we have:
– achieved a broad understanding of social involvement
– increased learning in the topics of the project
– fostered relationships between school, students, families and the local community
– improved the school curriculum by introducing activities related to the topic of our project
– understood that there is a set of values that are universal in all the societies
*Long-term benefits
We expect:
-to raise interest for organizing activities about social involvement
-to increase awareness of the key skills of the 21st century
-to stimulate interest for cross-curricular activities
-to increase the possibility of involvement in international cooperation
-to strengthen the European citizenship

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 79615 Eur

Project Coordinator

IES CASTILLO DE LUNA & Country: ES

Project Partners

• SCHOOL OF PALEKASTRO
• Szkola Podstawowa im. Tadeusza Kosciuszki w Zlotym Stoku
• Scoala Gimnaziala Romanu Braila