ACTIVE – Active, Critical Thinking, Integrated, Volunteering, Engaged Erasmus Project

Project Title

ACTIVE – Active, Critical Thinking, Integrated, Volunteering, Engaged

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 : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

The rapid technology advancements in last decades have easily convinced people that the life of the upcoming generations will differ strongly from the current ones. The ongoing situation in the world in the last few months proves the need of digital skills and media literacy, the ability to think critically and solve problems.In the current situation, on one hand-students and teachers have to work online, and on the other hand,social media becomes the only connection to the world outside of their homes.The situation also arises the question of human rights and to what extent and when they can be restricted for the sake of the community wellbeing.These are new and unexpected topics that many don’t feel fully equipped to handle.
These dynamic processes require an improvment of the quality of students’ competences, supporting and accelerating the mastering of knowledge and skills that will help young people to find their place and realization in the real life. Through practice, students need to reach a new level of understanding, that provides a link between competencies and the real world. They have to be able to apply the acquired knowledge in different fields and contexts,they need to build skills that are complementary to the digital ones – multicultural literacy and awareness of global processes, innovative thinking and effective communication, teamwork, personal, social and civic responsibility.
The main goals of the ‘ACTIVE’ project are to develop students’key skills such as critical thinking, creativity and self-learning, to show them how to use the Internet and digital technologies safely, intelligently and for educational purposes. We will also like students to acquire civic competences and the ability to participate actively in civic and social life.
This strategic partnership will allow trainings and cooperation for strengthening the European dimension in the education and will promote common European values and a sense of belonging to one global community.
The project is a result of the purposeful efforts of all partners to improve students’ motivation and practical skills.Therefore students will be placed in the center of the trainings and they will work actively for their own development.
During the project preparation,all partners identified the topics as particularly relevant and an eTwinning project was created for better communication and teamwork.
The project activities are organized in five modules: How literate we are (media and digital), I and the Network, The media – what they tell us,Human rights – obligations and responsibilities, We can change (active citizenship).The partners will work on topics locally and during the mobilities.
The target group are students aged 14 to 16,teachers and parents.In total 120 students and 40 teachers will participate in the educational exchanges.All their peers,teachers,parents and representatives of the parental communities will be involved in the local school activities.Each partner will provide their best materials to a wide range of professionals.The implementation of this project will contribute to raising the level of school education by enhancing the knowledge and skills of teachers,who will share experiences and learn about best practices in partner schools.The involvement of institutions will provide a professional dimension to the topics and add a significant value to the activities.
All results and materials will be posted on the school websites, project site, Facebook page and twinspace.
The development of these key competences requires a change in the traditional model of teaching. Thus the focus of our work will be on the project-based learning methods and approaches such as CLIL,STEAM, serious and role-playing games, interdisciplinarity,ICT,collaborative learning and teamwork,analysis and evaluation,creative workshops,discussions,problem solving,presentation,photo and video work.
On the long term, students will improve their functional and digital literacy,foreign language and communication skills.Young people will get the chance to expand their knowledge of human rights and related social responsibilities.This will help them to realize that the disrespect or violation of these basic rights reduces the quality of life on individual, local and global levels. They will adopt new ways of learning and enrich their experience in areas needed for lifelong learning. The project will allow students to express and increase their citizenship within their school, city, country and Europe.
For teachers, participation in the project will lead to improvement of their professional skills to meet the growing need of knowledge and use of new technologies. They will acquire competences to use innovative teaching and assessment methods for creative and effective use of digital technology in education. Partner schools will expand their capacityfor working on European level.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 0 Eur

Project Coordinator

Comprehensive school Geo Milev & Country: BG

Project Partners

• INSTITUTO EDUCACION SECUNDARIA LA SOLEDAD
• LICEO “G. CESARE – M. VALGIMIGLI”
• Hochwaldgymnasium
• II Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace im. Romualda Traugutta