Be Fire Safe at School Erasmus Project

Project Title

Be Fire Safe at School

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Health and wellbeing; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

BFireSafe@school is an important and innovative Strategic Partnership project whose aim is to develop a new fire safety education programme for teachers and pupils in second level schools in Europe. There is no standardised approach to fire safety training in second level schools in Europe at present. This project aims to address that deficiency. No previous Erasmus+ schools project has provided such training and so this is a unique opportunity.

Background
This project builds upon fire safety teaching already successfully implemented in many EU countries at primary school level. At present there is no universal fire safety module or online training tool available for teachers to train second level school students in fire safety. Our needs analysis research found that fire safety awareness programmes across Europe are focused mainly on younger age groups aged 8-9 and there are no programmes in place for the older age groups. A review of fire statistics in schools in a number of our partner countries reveals that the incidence of fires in schools varies significantly.

Project Duration
The project (if successful) will be a 30 month project with a start date of October 2018.

Project consortium
The project consortium consists of a wide range of partners from different cultures and experiences, from a range of service backgrounds and scale that will represent the various stakeholders involved and that will bring expertise in different fields directly connected with the objectives of the project. The partners are located in a number of different countries with a good geographical spread all over Europe, a well balanced group of fire and rescue services, local, regional and national government organisations, third level research institutions, learning developers and national and EU teacher organisations.
A number of Associated Partners primarily made up of second level schools and other interested stakeholders in each partner country will participate in the BFireSafe@School project. Collectively this partnership will research, design, develop and deliver a sustainable educational framework on fire safety for second level school teachers and students.
The project partners are:
• Leitrim Fire Service Ireland (Project Coordinator)
• National Directorate for Fire and Emergency Management – Ireland
• Bizkaia Fire service – Spain
• Dortmund Fire service – Germany
• FRS Centrum, Gent – Belgium
• Frederiksborg Brand & Redning, Denmark
• Finnish National Rescue Association – Finland
• Learnkey, Lithuania
• Trinity College, Dublin

Most of the partners involved have experience of successfully delivering European funded projects previously.

Project Objectives
The Strategic Partnership project will address the horizontal priority of “Development of relevant and high quality skills and competences” and …as part of the call.
The objectives of the project are to
1) Increase fire safety knowledge and awareness for teachers and pupils in second level schools using innovative digital learning methods
2) Improve the health and well being of teachers and pupils
3) Use technology to implement and monitor new approaches to teacher training and pupil learning using peer networks.
4) Demonstrate how the new digital tools can be effective in improving the motivation of both teachers and pupils to learn about fire safety.

Project Outputs
A number of engaging and interconnected outputs will be developed such as a new classroom training course in fire safety, a new Online e-learning tool, a new Learning Management System and online app and a new training video to demonstrate safe evacuation procedures for schools. All the content will be developed in English and translated into 7 more languages (Spanish, Basque, French, German, Lithuanian, Danish).
The training programme will include various training tools that will reach every student from the target group in a variety of learning styles to suit their learning needs. Training materials will be prepared and be available for teachers.

Dissemination activity
It is expected that at least 5000 pupils and 500 teachers in our partner schools will directly benefit from this educational programme with the potential to reach out to many more using the online learning tools and the eTwinning platform. We also plan to disseminate the outputs of the project through a series of Multiplier events and to a range of sectoral publications. Delivering a strong fire safety programme to this group of pupils will form part of critical life skills that the target group can take into adulthood with the potential of realising increasingly resilient individuals, communities and societies.

Project Sustainability
Efforts will be made to sustain this fire safety programme into the future by attempting to incorporate it into the school curriculum throughout countries in Europe. Contact will be made with key educational stakeholders at local, national and European level in
order to achieve this.

Project Website

http://bfiresafeatschool.eu

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 311409,6 Eur

Project Coordinator

LEITRIM COUNTY COUNCIL & Country: IE

Project Partners

• HULPVERLENINGSZONE CENTRUM (OOST-VLAANDEREN)
• DIPUTACION FORAL DE BIZKAIA
• FREDERIKSBORG BRAND OG REDNING
• STADT DORTMUND
• THE PROVOST, FELLOWS, FOUNDATION SCHOLARS & THE OTHER MEMBERS OF BOARD OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY & UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH NEAR DUBLIN
• DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING, PLANNING AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT
• UAB LearnKey