Challenging Communication in a Committing Community Erasmus Project

Project Title

Challenging Communication in a Committing Community

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 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development)

Project Summary

The new generation of students is raised in a world where everything changes at a rapid pace; they are accustomed to overwhelming amounts of information, juggling multiple types of social media and countless forms of entertainment. The students are fundamentally different from the ones coming before them – therefore we as educators have to develop our ways of teaching to fit the demands and needs of this new generation.

We have discovered that traditional classroom teaching has a tendency to be ineffective and uninspiring for some students. More and more students cannot see the relevance of education and fail to participate in lessons in an active way; others even make the choice to leave school early. With this project we hope to inspire our colleagues as well as ourselves to do better – to aim
higher. The title of our project is “Challenging Cooperation in a Committing Community”. Our goal is to modernize teaching methods and techniques by changing typical classroom teaching into student-centered learning environments where we use ICT in collaborative cross-curricular projects. We believe this way of working will generate a feeling of relevance amongst our students
and motivate them into participating and provide the students with important skills they can apply later in life (organizational skills, creativity, methodology and collaboration).Letting the students work in international teams will help prepare our student for a future in a world that’s getting smaller and a Europe that’s getting more united. We feel that we as educators are responsible for training our students in being active participants on an international scale. By involving our students in a European project, we hope to develop their international comprehension and give them an experience of being a part of something bigger – the feeling of solidarity as members of the European Union.

We strive to give our students a greater understanding of democracy and increase tolerance for different cultures by letting them with themes and methods that challenge their normal way of thinking and force them to participate in the democratic process. We live in democratic countries in different parts of Europe. The young people in the areas we live in are quite isolated when it comes to meeting people from other countries face-to-face. By innovating cooperative projects combined with mobility meetings we will open the door to Europe and help them realize that Europeans have a lot in common and we need each other. Through experience we have discovered that students using ICT in a learning environment are more focused and eager to complete tasks because they use tools they find interesting. ICT tools are excellent for cooperation and intend to equip our students with as much knowledge of ICT as possible.

During the project we have worked with the topics: Gyro Gearloose (inventions), Democracy, Expression and Freedom. By choosing these specific themes we hope to have inspired our students to debate, argue their case, solve problems, challenge themselves andeach other creatively, and partake in democratic processes like casting a vote.
We have worked in student-centered learning environment where we created a foundation for the students to work from. The pupils will be problem solvers, designers, debate leaders, project managers and more in the different challenges they will be presented with. The involved teachers have provided the students with the necessary knowledge and know-how(various ICT tools, arts and crafts
techniques ect.) to help and support the ideas of the students.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 52855 Eur

Project Coordinator

Agerbæk skole & Country: DK

Project Partners

• Gimnazjum nr 6 w Koszalinie im. Polskich Nauczycieli Tajnego Nauczania w latach 1939-1945
• Liceul Teoretic “Dr. Mihai Ciuca”
• Ibni Sina Anadolu Lisesi