Borderless Garden : a school to develop key skills in Europa Erasmus Project

Project Title

Borderless Garden : a school to develop key skills in Europa

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: Pedagogy and didactics; Creativity and culture; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills

Project Summary

The strategic partnership project “Garden without Borders: A School for Developing Key Competences in Europe” has enabled the collaboration of several European bodies that are differently involved in school education.
the partners were able to design, implement and test effective strategies for improving key competences for specific target groups of schoolchildren and unemployed youth: they constructed the outline of a “virtual garden without frontiers” As a shared cross-cultural ground of experiences and a vehicle for the development of the key competencies of their learners. The results show that motivated learning addresses the gaps in science in an environmental and cultural context, as well as oral and written communication, mathematics, computer literacy, and that of humanist culture.
– the cross-sectoral approach allowed a real exchange and sharing between academics and teachers of colleges and high schools, artists and scientists, very favorable to the production of quality training tools, whose exploitation allowed to reach the big public and unemployed youth.
– the best practices have been pooled, shared between teachers in order to create and validate tools, in particular to manage diverse groups of learners, and to reach the most disadvantaged of them.

Through European cooperation, trainers have learned to share, share, pool, reinvent a cross-cultural field such as that of the European Garden, which promotes social cohesion and cross-cultural dialogue.
The expected impact on their learners was:
– develop key skills – and knowledge –
– to foster creativity, self-confidence, the desire to learn, intellectual curiosity, openness to cultural diversity, awareness of the wealth and diversity of the European cultural heritage of gardens,
– create an increased motivation for the culture of other countries.
From this cooperation, the partner structures developed new teaching strategies and new tools to be used in teacher training, to plan future opportunities for pedagogical modules.

Project Website

http://www.paysage-patrimoine.eu

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 115275 Eur

Project Coordinator

Paysage et patrimoine sans frontière & Country: FR

Project Partners

• AGRUPAMENTO DE ESCOLAS JOAO DE DEUS
• Acquamarina Associazione Culturale
• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA
• UNIVERSIDAD DE GRANADA