Educating Innovative and Creative European Citizens Erasmus Project

Project Title

Educating Innovative and Creative European Citizens

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: Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship

Project Summary

Educating Innovative and Creative European Citizens
The objectives of the project are to improve digital skills of teachers and pupils, to promote knowledge about the EU institutions and democratic decision-making, to study the cultural, natural and social heritage of the participating regions and by doing so fostering the acquisition of digital and language competences.
To reach these objectives we carried out several activities. They consisted of acitvities at the participating schools and at short-term exchanges of pupils and their accompanying teachers. The activities at schools include meetings with political representatives, lessons in history, geography, biology and languages about the cultural, social and natural heritage of the participating regions, expert talks and research of teachers on suitable IT tools to create surveys, quizzes, puzzles and boards about the areas. Teachers also got aquainted with UNESCO -the United Nations platform platform for cultural and natural heritage. Pupils and teachers visited these heritage sites.The students also got information on internet security. The schools also promoted the use of etwinning and they organised parents´evenings or public events to disseminate the results of the cooperation. All participating schools published results on their websites in forms of newsletters. In the last year of the cooperation Corona forced the participants to work online and with digital tools.
The short-term exchanges of pupils comprised visits to places of cultural and natural importance in the participating regions and of training sessions in the IT rooms – in which they used certain tools to create puzzles, quizzes, surveys and boards. They also wrote blog entries about their stays and actively produce traditional food of the areas visited and presented this work in a digital form to their collegues back home. There was also the chance to meet a political representative or visit a democratic institution. All short-term exchanges included a dissemination activity with parents or the wider puplic, in which pupils presented their schools and their regions. The pupils also learned to find their way in the visited town by using Google maps or GPS. The last short-term meeting could only be held online, because of restrictions by Corona measures.our previous digital activities helped us to install virtual meetings.
The results of our cooperation are a list of suitable IT tools for elearning activities in history, geography, languages, social studies and biology lessons. We exchanged best practise examples for surveys, quizzes, puzzles and boards. We provided five issues of our project newsletter consisting of articles describing activities at the participating schools, students articles about their stays and reports about the short-term exchange of pupils focusing on the region visited. These newsletters are published on our school websites.
To organise our work we use an etwinning TwinSpace, all forms of communication also including video conferences on MS Teams. Virtual project meetings were organised on Zoom.
Long-term effects are that in all participating schools the use of digital teaching methods increased and teachers and pupils are able to handle the challenges of the Corona pandemic better. The tools we used will be permanently used in lessons in the participating schools.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 158180 Eur

Project Coordinator

BRG Wels Wallererstraße & Country: AT

Project Partners

• Istituto professionale di Stato per i servizi alberghieri e della ristorazione PAOLO BORSELLINO
• Gimnazija Skofja Loka
• Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace im prof. Zbigniewa Religi w Gilowicach
• Geschwister-Scholl-Schule
• TSG a ZS, s.r.o.