School 4.0 Bridging the Gap between Teaching Competences and School Infrastructure Erasmus Project

Project Title

School 4.0 Bridging the Gap between Teaching Competences and School Infrastructure

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Reaching the policy level/dialogue with decision makers

Project Summary

Context/background of the project: The digital ere enters all socielal sectors and private activities. Some spheres are hesitant or exempt, like seniors, universities or schools. The focus of the project is on the school sector. The slow uptake of digital innovation can be explained at least as follows: at one hand, pedagogy adaptaion is too slow. The teacher in service and further training does not mirror at many places the societal and technical reality. Teachers often do not know, how to apply technical options in their subjct teaching, they handel available tools inappropriately and they are not aware of the digial life of their students. On the other hand, decisions about provision of technical resources are often not embedded in a wider strategy, including connectivity, technical up-to-dateness, maintenance, teacher competences… Therefor, the project was related to different aspects of IT in school: technology, teacher training, initial teacher education, students’ and pupils’ competences, and best practices. The project partners had all relevant competences and networks to contribute to the different subjects and they entered in a fruitful exchange from the beginning of the project.

Objectives: The objectives remained the same as stated in the proposal. They have been based on the above background which was a common denimonator of the project partners during project life time

Number and type/profile of participants: The profile of the participants was corresponding to the proposal: people concerned with implementation of technology at school, teacher curricula developers from universities, teachers, headmasters, teacher students. Moreover, stakeholders like interested companies and school administrations were reached. At least 600 participants have been directly informed about the project activities, these numbers being the participants of the desseminantion events Bildung Online conference in Salzburg and teacher information day in Glasgow, both directly related to School4.0 Training Weeks. Relevant numbers have moreover reached during network meetings (BfB), school visits and lectures for teacher students, all also related to the Training Weeks.

Description of undertaken activities: Central and decentral project administration, finance; Project management and quality assurance; Project communication; Preparation of four training weeks by all partners, organisation of the training week by the hosting partners (program definition with the program committee, preparatory meetings, careful selection and invitation of speakers, in accordance with the planned topics, inclusion of stakeholders (municipalities, school administrations, headmasters…), networking, organisation of visits and excursions, organisation of social events, handling of security issues, planning of locations and transports, catering, provision of supporting personnel, elaboration of presentations, proof reading, participation in meetings, post-processing of training weeks (collection and storage of presentations, debriefing, evaluation)); Technical and graphical development of the web site, project logo, clarification of copyright issues, setting up of secure shared space (ownCloud), structured according to the project activities, updating, setting up and maintenance of a central mailing list, upload of training week documentation; Project dissemination (web site, embedding in third party web sites, twitter, dissemination events), participation in dissemination events; İnclusion of third party actors (municipalities, headmasters, teachers, university chairs, companies) in relation to the project activities; Desk research by all partners: investigation for relevant sources, documentations, reports, summing up; Translation and localisation of questionnaire, distribution.
Reporting

Results and impact attained; if relevant, longer-term benefits:
Due to the great interest and relevance of the project topics and the high quality of the inputs, presentations and discussions, many new ideas could be taken away by the participants which is of concrete value, since project partners are involved in decision making of municipalities and school administrations, and this is a period of very important decision making in many European cities, about large budgets for school technology and teacher training. The presented strategies and good practices found broad interest and influence the ongoing decision making. Inspired by the project exchanges and information, even information exchange visits took place independently of the Project to get deeper into concrete experiences and exchanges of know-how. These exchanges are still going on.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 100865 Eur

Project Coordinator

FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITAET ERLANGEN NUERNBERG & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Stadt Nürnberg Bürgermeister Geschäftsbereich Schule und Sport
• Glasgow City Council Education Services
• Bündnis für Bildung e.V.
• UNIVERSITAET INNSBRUCK
• Johannes-Scharrer-Gymnasium
• Whitehill Secondary School
• BildungOnline – Verein zur operativen Umsetzung und Präsentation von schulbezogenen IT-Projekten (B:O)