Journeys Outline Youth Erasmus Project

Project Title

Journeys Outline Youth

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

The aim of the project, J.O.Y., was to reduce the early school dropout, by using some modern teaching strategies, so as all the students to be able to access education, including those with learning difficulties, in order to be included in the European labor market.
The idea of this project, J.O.Y., came from the statistic data furnished by CE, where we had learned that the rate of early school breakdown in UE was slowly increasing. Almost 11% considering young people (aged 18-24) in the EU were early school and education leavers in 2015, in other words having completed only a lower secondary education and not being in further education or training in the last four weeks preceding the survey.
The project J.O.Y. represented a partnership among 4 European educational institutions, which were situated in countries placed at different socio-economic development levels: Romania, Italy, Estonia and Croatia. There were about 2500 pupils studying in these schools, aged between 6-18 years old, including a primary, secondary, vocational and special education system.
The aims of the partnership:
-to reduce the level of early school leaving with 0,5% during the school years 2017-2019, by developing social, civic, intercultural, media literacy and critical thinking competences, all these by using the active methods of learning and teaching, based on TIC.
-to increase the motivation for learning by creating a positive learning climate; by stating the objectives of learning; by organizing the teaching-learning resources; by realizing a balance between the intellectual and emotional learning components, so as to reduce the risk of early school leaving.
– to improve the access to education system, all pupils’ participation and the learning performances, especially of those children, coming from disadvantaged groups ( with learning and studying difficulties) through enhancing pupils’ motivation for foreign language learning; encourage ICT techniques and practices, studying exchanges, good practice examples among the schools participating in the partnership.
– To encourage educational exchanges in order to increase the quality of education inside and outside partner schools by promoting performances, innovation and a European dimension in the educational system and practice;
The partners involved in this project were different types of schools: the school in Romania, for example, was a public primary and secondary school. The schools in Italy and Croatia were vocational schools, the first of them having 6 specializations in different fields, while the second of them having specializations only in the field of public services. The school in Estonia was a school for the pupils having learning and studying difficulties. We considered this a relevant particularity which was going to facilitate:
-personal experience exchange concerning the educational route followed by students so as they could be later integrated on the European labour market.
– educational practices exchange about how to approach the curriculum so as to enhance the motivation for learning.
– the teaching-learning methods, in case of children with different learning difficulties, in order to ease their access to the further stages of education, and finally on the labour market.
– the promoting of diversity and social inclusion through the participation of students to specific European activities.
– the increasing of motivation for learning foreign languages, so as they can actively and successfully participate to the activities of the project and lately to the professional life of the European labour market.
– the pupils involved in the activities of the project had the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the lifestyle of other pupils of their age, from other European schools.
– by including the pupils with SEN in the activities of the project, there were promoted the social inclusion, the diversity and the tolerance.
-each partner had already developed local/ regional projects concerning the pupils in a situation of risk, but their participation into a European project enhanced their experience, furnished them new instruments to approach the situations these pupils face daily.
-The Interactive Map, as an outcome of the project, related to the participants fascinating stories about their authors, about their way of living, what they have already known and what they have just learned about each other, and especially what was important for them to find out. Another role of the Maps was to claim, persuade, influence and advertise. Thus we could start using interactive maps in the classroom daily activities, by helping our students to discover some of these possibilities for themselves.
– eGuide Platform included learning-teaching of some interactive subjects, such as: Maths, Geography, History, Arts. It functioned as an online classroom where instructors could carry out learning activities.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 109300 Eur

Project Coordinator

Scoala Gimnaziala Silvania & Country: RO

Project Partners

• Istituto d’Istruzione Superiore Leonardo da Vinci
• Nurme kool
• Hotelijersko-turisticka i ugostiteljska skola