Coast to coast: living without borders Erasmus Project

Project Title

Coast to coast: living without borders

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Teaching and learning of foreign languages; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

The “Costa a Costa: Living without Boundaries” project comes out from the need to consolidate the relationship implemented with partners on the etwinning Twinspace. In fact, the twin schools have been working together for three years, exchanging experiences and appreciating the importance of learning foreign languages. The built link led to the presentation and approval of the KA1 candidacy by French partners as lead school and the inclusion of a new Icelandic partner. The “Costa a Costa” project also obtained the recognition of the Quality Label for both countries.

Participants:
16 Italian secondary school pupils attending the second grade.
15 secondary school pupils of 1st grade, aged between 12 and 14 years
3 Italian accompanying teachers.
3 French accompanying teachers

Objectives:
1. Develop the idea of a closer Europe;
2. Promote tolerance and mutual understanding;
3. Learn from the reflections on basic values: freedom, democracy, equality and respect for human rights;
4. Knowing and enhancing the coastal environment.

Activities:

A.preparatory activities:

1. continuation of the activities planned on the twinspace;
2. presentation of the school environments that will host Italian students by the French;
3. video conferences on etwinning with host families;
4. sharing of estimates provided by partners on means of transport to be used on site and on sites to visit;
5. contacts with Italian agencies to organize part of the trip;
6. identification of insurance coverage for mobility participants;
7. creation of google modules for ex-ante monitoring; in itinere and final;
8. sharing of the whole project with the families of the participating students.

B. on-site activities:

For pupils:
1. Participation in two hours per day of curricular activities according to the time-scanning proposed by the host school.
2. Participation in the school canteen and recreational activities within the Institute.
3. Exits on the Territory.

For teachers:
1. Participation in the programming activities EPI.
2. First draft of a KA219.
3. Exits on the Territory

The contents of the activities:
1. Volcanism;
2. Morphology of the Territory;
3. Knowledge of their respective traditions with particular reference to the Mediterranean diet.

Methodologies:
1. Cooperative Learning;
2. Mixed class groups vertically and horizontally.
3. Solicitation for the use of ICT.

Expected results:
The expected results from the activities carried out are divided into three fields:

Personal skills:
A. Improve the personal skills of pupils and teachers.
B. Improve the ability to work in groups.
C. Encourage tolerance
D. Promote the scientific, geographic and cultural knowledge of the Breton coast.

European dimension:
A. Foster mobility at the service of learning.
B. Knowing the educational system of the partner country.
C. Collaborate on a joint work to acquire skills to develop an EPI path.

Language skills:
A. Deepening of the French language by the Italian pupils.
B. Deepening of the Italian language by the French pupils.

Impact of the project:
The project will bring the following long-term benefits to both schools:

1. It will give the opportunity to continue to work in Erasmus with a KA219 together with partners. This project, therefore, could continue in time with continuous exchanges between the two schools. In fact, they will be hosted by us in the following October 2018 because of the approval of their candidacy KA1, as lead school.
2. It will make the use of the Twinspace more engaging and effective, as the skills of the pupils have been implemented.
3. It enriches teachers ‘ pedagogical skills and teaching methodologies especially in relation to the work of European Collaborative Group and interdisciplinary design.

Dissemination of the Project

The dissemination will occur through:
1. The creation of a dedicated page on the site of our school institution, enriched with a photo gallery that documents the entire activity.
2. The creation of a website of the project that will remain open even after the end of the project to be viewed and become an opportunity for the other educational institutions interested in European cultural exchanges.
3. The publication in the local newspapers of articles concerning the project and the activities put in place.
4. Processing on twin-space, in public mode, of a PowerPoint or an explanatory padlet of the entire project.
All these activities will ensure the availability of the project and its long-term sustainability.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 32507 Eur

Project Coordinator

ISTISTUTO COMPRENSIVO “G.MARCONI” DI BATTIPAGLIA & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Jean MOUNES