Education au patrimoine via les parcours de santé Erasmus Project

Project Title

Education au patrimoine via les parcours de santé

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 Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development); ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

The increasing efficiency and portability of ICT is transforming our way of life and the way we learn. The diversity of mobile devices, their simple use and practical digital applications are invading our daily lives, attracting more and more people, and getting closer to the interests of young people, mainly with regard to fun and social activities. As educators, we can consider these devices as centers of distraction from school activity and alienation of reality or, on the contrary, we can use them as motivating elements of learning and as educational resources for practical and experimental activities in contact with the real world.
This project has allowed teachers, educators and all public in general to use tablets and smartphones as electronic guides for educational, recreational, tourist and sports purposes.Thus the five partners put together and shared their expertise to create a website and a digital application that access on a database with georeferenced pathways that guide users on points of interest concerning the natural (biological, geological), cultural, historical Heritage of each country. This technology allows users (teachers, students or others) to obtain indications on the pathway to follow, multimedia information (text, sound, video, photos) about each point of interest, and also about the distance traveled, journey time and energy expended. The trails are walking and cycling, but alternatives are provided for persons with reduced mobility.The digital application allows any user to create, according to his needs, backgrounds and associated multimedia contents and save them on the database. An Ebook providing the description of the processes and routes created by the five institutions is online with free access. Experiences, good practices, know-how concerning the use of the project’s ICT tools and the creation of new trails were multiplied during an international seminar at the end of the project.The Lycée Professionnel La Trinité coordinated the work for teams of nearly 30 teachers and 250 students between 15 and 19 years old from five general and vocational schools (Lycée Professionnel La Trinité, France, Escola Secundária de Loulé, Portugal, Liceo Scientifico). Linguistico Principe Umberto di Savoia, Italy, Šolski center Krško-Sevnica, Slovenia and Pärnu Ühisgümnaasium, Estonia). From the priorities of the Institutional Projects, the analysis of the needs of each and the target groups, the partnership had set out the following objectives:
1. Encourage the use of teaching methodologies and learning by means of ICT, to motivate students and facilitate learning.
2. Build educational resources that allow the reconciliation of theoretical teaching school subjects with concrete and real situations of learning, a major factor in the motivation of unmotivated students with learning difficulties.
3. Develop the skills to use digital resources. For students, especially those who are dropping out of the conventional system, ICTs can be a motivating factor, making learning easier thanks to the richness of its resources.
4. Develop students and teachers’ communication skills (oral and written) in foreign languages.
5. Promote the inclusion and tolerance through collaborative work between students from different educational routes (general and vocational), from different social backgrounds and belonging to `vulnerable groups and different countries and cultures.
Therefore this project allowed a strong impact in:
– The development of collaborative skills, project management, language skills and use of ICT;
– The development of social skills and promotion of European citizenship;
– The impulsing of concrete teaching and learning methodologies to increase students’ motivation and reduce school dropout.
– The discovery and promotion of the heritage of the five partner countries at the service of school space, but also educational as well as a plus for tourism in the involved areas.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 173286,28 Eur

Project Coordinator

LYCEE PROFESSIONNEL LA TRINITE & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Pärnu Ühisgümnaasium
• Escola Secundária de Loulé
• Liceo Scientifico e Linguistico Statale Principe Umberto di Savoia
• Solski center Krsko Sevnica