Digital vs Traditional Erasmus Project

Project Title

Digital vs Traditional

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Social/environmental responsibility of educational institutions; Creativity and culture; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

Our project “Digital vs Traditional” was born as a result of cooperation between institutions from different countries all around Europe for many years. We have created lifelong friendships and professional teams for future. There are partners from Turkey, France, Poland, Romania with different socio-economic, geographical, pedagogical and cultural backgrounds. The idea of our project is directly related to the needs and interests of all the partners. Our experiences led us carry on improving, progressing and keeping up with changing expectations and demands of all the stakeholders of education such as students, parents, teachers and the community. On the other hand, we are aware of our capabilities and experiences that we gained for years. Thus, we have identified the title as “Digital vs Traditional”.

The name of our project “Digital vs Traditional” represents the challenge for all the participants. By “vs” (versus), we do not mean to fight or struggle, but to experience and challenge of the both sides of Digital and Traditional learning, teaching and training facilities. There will be no winners at the end of the project. However, we as partners will have learnt, increased and shared a great amount of information and experiences. We will have learnt from each other.

The methodology is clearly defined before the project started. According to this, there will be a calendar and deadlines for all the partners to follow and complete each planned activity which will have been completed before the related mobility and the results will be shared during the international meetings. The roles and responsibilities of each partner were identified. The coordinator is responsible for the overall communication and management as well as all the contact persons of each partner institutions. Each partner will be responsible for preparation, implementation, dissemination and evaluation of each thematic work.

Our project consist of numerous teaching learning activities related to different key competences of all the partners’ education backgrounds, such as:
-Creative activities, such as digital and traditional arts, music and sports.
-Pedagogical activities such as using digital and traditional teaching learning techniques and tools.
-Innovative activities such as contests for developing new teaching learning materials (digital and printed authentic products).
-Highly effectively use of open educational resources by all the participants during the whole project.
-Promoting language learning, especially less spoken languages of the partner countries.
-Learning and practicing common values and civic rules such as social inclusion, digital and media literacy, critical thinking, life-long learning, cultural diversity and historical heritage.
-Creating and raising environmental awareness by organized campaigns, presentations, seminars and exhibitions by direct participation.
-Increasing opportunities for personal and professional development in digital life and new teaching learning methods.

As partners we are highly motivated and believe that we can increase the quality of education in our institutions, support teaching learning activities, promote ICT, OER (Open Education Resources) and digital literacy. We aim to create equal atmosphere for all the participants from different backgrounds. Our project promotes Active Citizenship and Entrepreneurship through the activities which are designed to fight discrimination and segregation. Refugee and migrant students will take part in the project activities to develop self confidence, language and integration skills. We planned the whole project activities to create challenging, equal, awareness rising and innovative atmosphere in the classrooms, school buildings and all the related venues where the activities will be realized.

The results of all the activities and the overall products will regularly be shared on eTwinning to increase the impact and accomplish the virtual side of the project. eTwinning and the School Education Gateway will be the main platforms during preparation, implementation and follow-up activities. In addition, all the outcomes will be shared via the blogs of the participants and social media tools. There will be Erasmus corners and we will set an Erasmus museum in each partner school to present the physical products such as brochures, posters, photographs and the presents given by the partners during the mobilities to be seen for years.

Sustainability is one of the key points of our project. In order to disseminate and expand the impact of the project, we will share the outcomes, experiences and final products with all the educational and local community by seminars, press, social media, eTwinning and face-to-face interactions to provide long term efficiency. All the digital and final products will easily be reached and visible. Digital and printed logos of EU programs such as the official Erasmus+ will be printed on any kind of products.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 197970 Eur

Project Coordinator

Yalova Anadolu Lisesi & Country: TR

Project Partners

• IES TEOBALDO POWER
• Rigas 34 vidusskola
• Colegiul National Pedagogic Regina Maria
• ZESPOL SZKOL TECHNICZNYCH IM ZIEMI DOBRZYNSKIEJ W LIPNIE
• College Gaucelm Faidit