Common Roots Make You Erasmus Project

Project Title

Common Roots Make You

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: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage; Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development)

Project Summary

BACKGROUND CONTEXT
This project emerges from the need to establish international policies and European school mobilities. We are a secondary school that teaches the curriculum in several languages: Valencian, Spanish, English and French. We have had some experience on Erasmus + Projects , collaborating with a Commenius Project. Simultaneously, we are implementing our third KA102 Project, “Crossing Borders III” in Vocational Courses, in which we do student internships and jobshadowings for teachers. We highly encourage our students in higher vocational training to participate in the FCT European Programmes. We have also experience participating in several eTwinnings but we would like to take a step forward and encourage our students to participate in short-term mobilities with other European Schools to promote specific skills to face an increasingly globalised world, in which students will have to be able to communicate in different languages, gain autonomy and be able to adapt to different environments and work in teams. By means of this project we aim to raise awareness about cultural heritage in other European countries. It’s a step further in the project we have already started on eTwinning.
MAIN OBJECTIVES:
-To encourage students to take part in extra school activities and integrate them in the curriculum, contributing to a reduction in early school -leaving.
– To motivate our students to learn from the processes of artcraft and traditional products of different European heritage.
– To take part in workshops about the elaboration of typical products from different cultural heritage by means of Project-Based Learning (PBL).
– To promote families´participation in the school activities and encourage them to participate as host families for the students´exchange.
– To raise awareness on different cultural identities in the European Union.
– To establish networks for international team work.
– To make students´ aware of the potential economic value that these business activities have and how they are closely linked to our traditional culture.
NUMBER AND PROFILE OF THE PARTICIPANTS
Five European Countries (Spain, Italy, Greece, Portugal and Poland), 100 students short- term mobilities, (age range of students 11-15), 10 teachers involved in the mobilities. (2 from each country)
ACTIVITIES DESCRIPTION AND IMPLEMENTATION
+ short- term mobilities for students and teachers among the partner schools to develop several workshops and PBL methodology about cultural heritage.
+ A transnational meeting at the beginnning of the project to sign down formal documents and agree on the main guidelines to be worked with when implementing the project.
+ The implementation of all the activities consolidated by a team work that will undertake this Project. Every school partner has created a teamwork to undertake this project following the established criteria. We coordinate the project with the other schools by using emails, text messages (via WhatsApp )and videocalls (by means of Messenger) and on the eTwinning chatroom.

LONG -TERM BENEFITS AND IMPACT
– We aim to improve the educational level and personal maturity, especially among the participating students that will be assessed by means of their successful results.
– We aim to consolidate a collaborative work pedagogy and Project-Based Learning.
– We aim to improve the European feeling among the eduactional communities of the school partners.
– By means of dissemination, we aim to improve the European feeling among the correspoding local and regional environments.
– The dissemination procedures will include posting all the activities on the website, in the schools social networking sites, Telegram, Facebook and WhatsApp and we will publish news articles in the local and regional press (newspapers, radio and television) as well as public speeches and oral presentations in other schools and eduactional organisations that offer seminars about European programmes, open school seminars where we will explain our projects to the families and the students.

SHORT -TERM BENEFITS
+ We aim to emphasise the value of traditional professions related to these cultural festivities.
+ We aim to increase the educational choices and personal autonomy.
+ We aim to promote collaborative work and cooperative effort.
+ We aim to implement the PBL in the 5 educational systems.
+ We aim to gain social recognition towards the work implemented by the participating schools about cultural heritage.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 137348 Eur

Project Coordinator

IES Gabriel Ciscar & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Zespol Szkol Ogolnoksztalcacych w Jozefowie nad Wisla
• 2nd Gymnasium of Heraklion Crete
• Istituto Comprensivo 1 Frosinone
• Agrupamento de Escolas de Paço de Arcos