Die Jugend prägt Europa – Fertigung einer Münzpresse zum Prägen einer Europamünze Erasmus Project

Project Title

Die Jugend prägt Europa – Fertigung einer Münzpresse zum Prägen einer Europamünze

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: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Open and distance learning

Project Summary

Summary:
From the topic of the project “The youth stamps /influences Europe -the stamping of a European coin with the help of a hand-made coin press“ the main focuses of this project could be recognized.
The groups of the participating partners from Belgium, Germany, Poland, Turkey and Hungary understood themselves as European partners who want to build a European educational – working – and adventure community.
With this project they have experienced that it is possible to plan and work successfully and with lasting effect with different representatives from different nations in spite of their cultural and social differences.
The participants came from the vocational school system and could all finish school with higher education entrance qualification. The different groups (of each nation) consist of ca. 8 pupils and approx. three teachers respectively.
To ensure that as many as possible schoolboys and schoolgirls were confronted with the project the groups were always composed differently and therefore not always the same participants join the teaching and learning units in the different countries. To enable the pupils to communicate with each other, they had the chance of to use the internet platform e-twinning.
One aim of the partners was applying and using of the synergies of their education like production engineering with the accompanying machines, programming, CAD, CAM, CNC, applied mathematics, technical drawing, materials, standardization and the international technical language.
In addition, they tried to realize a modular, interdisciplinary, transnational educational concept which combines the two faculties namely technology and economy, thereby the fields social studies, history, mathematics, physics, chemistry, technology, technical drawing and economy form the theoretical foundation.
The manufacturing of the coin press, as a part of the specialized practical education of the technology faculty, was accompanied with a cost calculation and marketing by those pupils from the economy faculty. The schoolboys and schoolgirls were introduced in an enterprise activity.
After the presentation of the proposals on the internet platform and the election of the two best proposals via e-twinning, the construction of the coin press would be brought up for discussion and was started and finally was completed.
The single modules of the project were equally and comparably divided on the participants. On this occasion, the pupils should find out that parts of a project, which were organized and completed in the prescribed time limit, could be joined internationally successfully together to one whole project.
To ensured success and to provide transparency for all participants the intensive communication during the working process via an Internet platform and at the 5 meetings (teaching activities and learning activities) in the 5 partners’ countries was highly relevant.
At the teaching and learning activities reasoned Workshops which adapt themselves to the educational process were central. These Workshops were presented and realized independently by the schoolboys and schoolgirls. The responsible persons only functioned as advisers in the background. As there were always different participants at the meetings, that was one important element at the national schools to multiply and to convey the results which were reached at those meetings to the others. Besides, all inter-evaluations were published on e-twinning and therefore accessible for all participants.
Another important component was the introduction of the participants to the structure and tasks of the EU. That´s why a working visit of the European institutions (Brussels) with an accompanied introduction was part of the project.
Beside the general linguistic preparation, the linguistic component was stressed by the production of a specialist dictionary of the national languages of the partners and the production of a self-provided compendium in each language.
The preparatory introduction to the history, culture, economy, applied geography, society and a supporting program with sport and leisure activities should facilitate the formation of a European experience community.
A European party was a final event in Poland with all partners as well as perhaps an additional party at the national schools was used to promote and introduce the project to the public because at this party the coin press was mounted and started to function. In an addition the stamped coins were marketed there publicly.
The participants received their certificates and Europass.
Finally, the whole project was published on the homepage of the respective partners and the press and the regional television companies reported about the project work.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 214395 Eur

Project Coordinator

Berufliche Oberschule Regensburg & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Dunaújvárosi SZC Bánki Donát Gimnáziuma és Szakközépiskolája
• Özel ENKA Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi
• Robert-Schuman-Institut
• Zespol Szkol, Centrum Ksztalcenia Ustawicznego w Gronowie