Be my guide Erasmus Project

Project Title

Be my guide

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: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Creativity and culture; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Project Summary

CONTEXT
We are 6 schools from Europe willing to increase our students’ knowledge and interests in the cultural (Geography, History)heritage of our countries. Our society is so much globalized , almost each human being ia about to forget his/her own national heritage, this is why we intend to challenge our students to search their own history by becoming aware of the customs and traditions which have been passed on from generation to generation. We believe that an individual who don’t know his own roots,will don’t know his foundation and by this way he will never thrive. By our project , we intend to develop our students’ patriotic behaviors, both making them look back to their past and their origins and opening their horizon to other cultures and their diversity.
Our intention is to involve students 100% in the project, this is why we provide them a key role in all activities .When the project starts, students will learn during a training for 3 months the better use of some mobile applications and online instruments in order to create great materials for the project. During the mobilities, students will develop activities with guests, make presentations, becoming guides in cultural visits and creating evaluation forms for the guests for identifying the effectiveness of their work . Once the exchanges ended , in team with some of their teachers, students will make a selection and will build a brochure entitled “European cultural heritage” which will be one of the outputs of the project.
PARTICIPANTS
The students’ age group is 12-14. We will involve at least 180 students in the organization of exchanges and the preparation and implementation of the above – mentioned activities. Except these students, 120 students will be selected, upon their work, their interest and involvement for a direct participation in the mobilities hosted by the partner schools. We will work also with parents of our students, which will help us in organizing the events, by preparing traditional dishes for the exchanges.
OBJECTIVES
The project intend to increase the cultural and intercultural awareness of all the participants involved in its implementation.Students are our the most important concern, this is why we will target the following objectives for them:
OS1. To increase the cultural awareness of at least 80% of students- they will become more interested in their country (history, geography, literature, customs, traditions, dances, traditional music)
OS2. To increase intercultural awareness and skills of all the students- they will become more interested in Knowing about other European countries culture(history, geography, literature, customs, traditions, dances, traditional music).
OS3 To improve students’ ICT skills – they will make use of the mobile applications and online tools for presentations, activities, evaluation, creation of outputs
OS4 To improve students’ transferrable skills such as communication, research and analysis, team work, adaptability, organisation
OS5 To improve students’ motivation for learning and self-confidence

For the institutions, our project intend :
1.To improve the European dimension and international collaboration
2.To motivate teachers and school staff

MAIN ACTIVITIES

We intend to organize 6 exchanges, each one hosted by every project partner:
1. C1 – The Greek Heritage – hosted by Greece in November 2020
2. C2 – The Lithuanian Heritage – hosted by Lithuania in February 2021
3. C3 – The Slovakian Heritage – May 2021
4. C4 – The Turkish Heritage – October 2021
5. C5 – The Bulgarian Heritage – March 2022
6. C6 – The Porteguese Heritage – June 2022

RESULTS
The project will produce the following results:
-The attainment of objectives – students for the target group will develop new skills, knowledges and competences
-A better cooperation among schools across European space
Tangible results will include: presentations made by students (30), workshops documents, online brochures (5), the final output “The European heritage”, guest students’ travel journals (80), the eTwinning space, eTwinning forum, photo albums (5), Europass mobility materials (112), certificates of attendance (112) initial and final evaluation forms, mobility materials (agenda, methodology, questionnaires, evaluation forms) .
IMPACT
The institutions will benefit from the good practices acquired and transferred through the participation of students and teachers in the exchanges. They will promote intercultural learning and will open to new models that will benefit the students in the medium and long run, too.
We will develop the European dimension of the school and will be better prepared to manage projects under the Erasmus+ programme – both the experienced schools and the less experienced ones. This project will lay the foundation for future cooperation among schools through eTwinning and Erasmus+.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 191760 Eur

Project Coordinator

4th Gymnasium of Mytilene & Country: EL

Project Partners

• Osmangazi Ortaokulu
• Zakladna skola sv. Andreja Svorada a Benedikta, Skalite 729
• 41 school Patriarh Evtimiy
• Taurage “Saltinis” progymnasium
• Agrupamento de Escolas de Ponte de Lima