Be Enthusiastic, Search the Treasure Erasmus Project

Project Title

Be Enthusiastic, Search the Treasure

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage

Project Summary

“Be Enthusiastic, Search the Treasure” (BEST) is a project aimed to extend the horizons of students’ minds, make them more tolerant, and empathetic. In our digital reality when students are getting more addicted to their gadgets and less physically active this project is a great opportunity to combine them and show the students the other point of view. They will learn how to use digital tools in a real situations. Hunt can be done physically or virtually (if the weather doesn’t allow us to do our outdoor activities). During the projects, a lot of activities will be done.
The project is focused on a main activity which is a treasure hunt including other related tasks. The target group is students at the age 14 to 16. The main reasons to chose this target group are that students are fluent enough in English language. They are curious, adventurous and enthusiastic. They will have to use their reasoning abilities, thinking skills, and by working in group, they will improve foreign language knowledge and IT competence. During the development of the game students will produce the hunt themselves and will choose both historical place- a monument, buildings, ruins and place with geographical importance-mountain, river, cave, which will be the object of treasure hunting. The participants has to do surveys on the project’s topic and prepare any sort of game/task such as games, art crafts, PPT presentations, mysteries, clues, puzzles, posters, photos, quizzes. They will operate using google earth, and all the 2.0 web tools, emails in order to use it later as a print screen as a verification part. In this way they can improve their digital competence. During this activity they will do tasks that will help them to get in touch with other cultures, learning languages, nature, communicative skills. They will surf the internet to get info about local legends, tourist destination, historical events and figures. Every country will prepare two treasure hunts, connected with geographical and historical place. When the students visit that country, they will have to hunt and find “the Treasure”. They will follow the clues and go hunting in chosen area. This will force the students to know more about cultures of the different members of the project. The students have be divided into mixed teams. Some tests can be done in advance to allocate students in proper group. In each team there will be students from different countries, so that they can know better and exchange experience and knowledge. That is a great opportunity for them to train and improve their language skills. So during the students mobility (mobility will happen in six countries) apart from searching the treasure, they will do surveys, presentations, share experiences, be physically active, work in team. Some tests can be used to allocate students in proper group. Students’ performances will be organized during each mobility. Treasure hunting for teachers will be organised once an year.
The supporting activities will be “Test your country” evening, Picture hunting and Filming.
During the visits every country has to choose and present some typical local dishes and introduce them to the other participants. As a result a cookery book will be created.
The BEST website logo and motto will be chosen among the best students productions at the beginning of the project. In every school an Erasmus corner will be created.
The other outputs will be ” Treasure e-book” and a calendar. During mobility every team will take some photos of landscapes and historical places. The competition will be organised and the best photos will be chosen by voting in our e Twinning page. The best pictures will be published in our Erasmus picture hinting calendar.
7 All activities will be filmed and the film will be released in Internet-You tube and e Twinning Project results page.
8. We are going to make a virtual Treasure e-book, contains all Treasures, found and registered during the projects activities.
There will be six project meetings divided into 2 groups. As our activities are mainly outdoor activities, the weather condition is very important. Due to that fact we suggest our meetings to be in this order.
First year of the project
October 2019-Spain
March 2020 -Italy
May 2020 –The UK
Second year
October-2020 Latvia
March 2021 Greece
The final meeting in coordinator country -Bulgaria May 2021.
There will be commission for the management and assessment of the project.
The final products and materials will be uploaded in Erasmus+ Project Results Platform, so that our project’s work will be available for wider audience and will be an inspirations to the other schools. We will share our experience in a Monitoring meeting organized by our National Agency .

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 154555 Eur

Project Coordinator

Joan Ekzarh Specialized Language School & Country: BG

Project Partners

• Istituto Comprensivo Cena
• INS Fonts del Glorieta
• Aizputes vidusskola
• Emerson Park Academy
• 4o Gymnasio Katerinis