Charity Achieves Results with Erasmus+ Erasmus Project

Project Title

Charity Achieves Results with Erasmus+

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: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship

Project Summary

Being teachers, educators and citizens we created the project with high concern to provide our students with proper background for both learning and personal development, fostering active position, entrepreneurial skills, creativity, responsible citizenship, developing transferal competences for a whole life.

The main concept of the project “CARE+” is to bridge the gap between academic knowledge and practical behavior. Multi-tasks project activities based on interdisciplinary cooperation combine: Research, individual study, data proceeding, making presentations, writing articles, training students to be independent learners with lifelong learning attitude Motivating voluntary activities related to different social and public problems producing multilevel effects: active position, responsibility towards environment and community, weaker members of society, one’s own development Boosting educational, mental and physical outcomes.

Improvement of social and entrepreneurial skills, confidence, self-esteem, basic and transversal competences and inclusive education for disadvantaged students.

Encouraging creativity, broadening horizons of future Europeans to be team players ready to support people with initiative and awareness that they can contribute to solve real social problems in addition to government policies. The partnership is made up of six countries: Bulgaria, Estonia, Greece, Italy, Portugal & Turkey.

apart from Turkey, which is running for its first Erasmus+, all organizations have been involved in several Erasmus+KA2 and are willing to transfer their experience one each other and to a new field, too. Portugal is very experienced with eTwinning (eT) projects, their coordinator is a eT Ambassador; Greece and Italy are on remote islands; Italy, Portugal and Greece have the applicant schools located in small towns, Turkey in a big one.The living standard of Bulgaria occupies the final positions.

All applicants are public schools with student ages between 3 and 18. A significant part of our students are socio-economically disadvantaged, some with special educational needs, an important percentage are at risk of early school leaving. Teachers put great efforts to overcome these unfavorable circumstances.

The project is using eT to work together before, during and after the project activities and in combination with blended mobility. We have designed six LTTA to fulfill a multitude of tasks: research, data processing, awareness campaigns, voluntary and charity activities aimed at improving school environment and local areas, charity to help disadvantaged people and children. Modern pedagogical interactive and student-centered approaches will be applied. They will be enriched and developed.

through international experience. Both English (the communication language of the project) and ICT are used extensively The project comprises four stages entitled “Hi, friends!”, “If you don’t like it, change it!” and “Make someone around you feel better”1 and 2, including both local and international activities. Two organisations are responsible for each stage. These are assessed according to a specified set of quantitative and qualitative indicators to reach the desired results, other institutions will be involved in different stages of implementation. Learning outcomes will be validated at the end of the short-term exchanges in form of Internal School Training Certificates. The impact is significant and beneficial on students, teachers, organizations, communities, international groups. It refers to changing attitudes both theoretically and with establishing practical habits and behavior, oriented to solve certain public and social issues; entrepreneurial skills, enhancing competences, diminishing school leaving with creating friendlier educational environment, building active and capable future European citizens. Students will be engaged in creative activities on the benefit of the others and the common well-being. It will be highly-motivating for them to see the direct results of their work-school spaces more beautiful and disadvantaged people happier due to them. A clear dissemination plan works throughout the whole project period, aimed to make our results visible and usable by stakeholders without frontiers. Thus, we will create a logo, an Erasmus corner, descriptions of activities, presentations and quizzes to reach our objectives and anticipated results.

The final outcome will be in a form of ebook. Pedagogical approaches will be described for benefit of other interested parties: teachers, youth workers, club instructors, educational boards. We will be present on TwinSpace and Erasmus+ Projects Results Platform. Again, each country is in charge of a clearly stated dissemination theme along the project implementation. Finally, in terms of sustainability, we will ensure project activities to become school traditions, our students will carry on applying what they have learnt and maintaining friendships for a lifetime.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 153830 Eur

Project Coordinator

Sauga Põhikool & Country: EE

Project Partners

• Daily Junior High School of Petra of Lesvos
• Secondary School “Konstantin Velichkov”
• ALTUNIZADE HAFIZE OZAL ORTAOKULU
• Istituto Comprensivo Monte Rosello Basso
• Agrupamento de Escolas de Idães