Cities On Rivers Erasmus Project

Project Title

Cities On Rivers

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 Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Environment and climate change; Natural sciences

Project Summary

Our project addressed the importance of rivers for humanity and its history. All of the civilizations around the world started around main water streams. Project was a result of cooperation of 6 schools from different countries with similar needs and mutual objectives, involving students with ages between 10 and 15 years old. The river was the connection between all project participants that flows through our cities and connecting us all through an invisible thread – the network of rivers flowing into another river and becoming one, is like people although they live miles away drink the same pure water.
Through this project we intended to bring in the attention of our students, their parents, the community where we live and even the attention of whole Europe, the problems we faced local and European level, but also, the beauties and joys we have, living each of us in their native places.
We personified the river, using our mascot, the Brooklet, a long blue silk scarf that traveled in every country. The pupils shared their ideas to the world, writing the environmental messages on ”the little river”, trying to help their river and the wold water.
The concrete objectives:
– to understand, analyze and carry out the necessary measures to make the places where we live better and livable
– to analyze historical, scientific and geographical events using a common language
– to participate in outdoor activities, aware of the importance of the environment in their lives, linking theory to practice
– to improve the communicative competence in English through real practice
– tο develop students’ ICT skills, especially in the use of on line web tools
– to motivate students not be passive Internet users and consumers, but also co-creators of web content
-to preserve the traditions left by our ancestors, sharing with other the inherited habits and learning to understand and respect the traditions of others partners;
In our project there were six partners , but only 3 school partners that had experiences in educational partnership, the other half had no experiences in strategic partnership.
Our activities and the results are: a common survey using Survey Monkey applied at both the beginning and the end of the project, creating the web site of the project, creating and choosing the logo of the project, research about the river under an ecological perspective, each school having a display corner on water and its contamination, creating an eTwinning website, created a quiz game containing the national identity of the each country, playing the game with dice like an old game “No offense, bro!”, but also we created the online version, creative writing ”The pen friendship” – writing the common tale about Water Roads named ”Brooklet, traveling around the world” which was continued by the other partners (one page by partner), created a mascot of the river, The Brooklet – a long blue silk scarf that traveled in every country together with the common story, the River Album, illustrating the river from every area in all four seasons, actions to “echologize” the river from the town, involving the parents and local authorities, six movies with the old customs from the rivers, ”The river legends” – finding and translating in English a legend or a real story about the river from our town and gathering together all the legends in one magazine, a CD with six songs about water, sang n native language.
The most important desired impact in region was the recognition of the school and the project. Attracting attention from others schools and regional authorities was a great effect of the project. The intention of the project was, also, to get people to ask questions about the environment, about crossing the river every day without knowing the story and its importance to the community.
The potential long term beneficiaries are our students because they had tried and succeeded to make changes in the town they lived, the residents of our cities because they live in a cleaner environment, having a pure river. An important part of the project was a base of teaching materials running CLIL+ method- the materials was exchanged after the end of the project as well. The CDs with water songs and with old traditional customs will be uploaded on line and will be promoted in local media, so every interesting person to use them.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 154659,16 Eur

Project Coordinator

Scoala Gimnaziala Nr. 4 Suceava & Country: RO

Project Partners

• Instituto de Educación Secundaria Carmen Martín Gaite
• Barbaros ortaokulu
• Convitto Nazionale Rinaldo Corso
• Zespol Szkol nr 4
• ESCOLA SECUNDÁRIA DE INÊS DE CASTRO