E@News Erasmus Project

Project Title

E@News

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education

Project Summary

E-news was a European school-partnership formed by seven secondary schools from The Czech Republic,
Germany, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway and Turkey. The students in the project came from a wide range of secondary schools and follow different curricula, which benefits the diversity of the group. The partnership comprised about 20 teachers and 400 students and was based on a long-term cooperation of 20 years.

The project’ has studied journalism and news production in Europe, both regionally and nationally as well as from a European perspective. The focus have been on learning, practicing and sharing media products – newspaper articles and videos.

The project comprised a theoretical as well as a practical part. As for the theory, our students and teachers learned from professionals about different themes concerning journalism and news production. Each school have approached the subject in its own way, and complemented each other in acquiring skills and competences which they shared. After having acquired and disseminated the skills and competences, the teachers guided the students practicing them. Afterwards the students assessed the practical outcome from an international point of view. The aims of the project were to let the students acquire competences also for their future studies and for their working career. The project focused on personal, social and entrepreneurial competences meeting the priorities of the KA2 programme and stimulated the achievement of relevant and high quality skills and competences.

Our main intention was to promote journalistic and entrepreneurial competences among the students and to improve transversal skills. This have been achieved by focusing on methodology, incorporating sessions on journalism, IT, investigation through interviews and they were given the ability to share knowledge and skills when meeting face to face. Entrepreneurship was demonstrated by the students producing all kinds of tangible and digital media which resulted in international media products, produced at two conferences.

The project had a broad approach to journalism. The students contacted people who knew a lot about different topics related to local culture and journalism.. Students made interviews with people from their own community, in this way students got a chance to practice journalistic skills, and they shared media products with and their (international) peers of young students. The strength of the project provided both theoretical and practical work for the teachers and students in an innovative way. This gave a good opportunity for crosscurricular cooperation in the schools and to practise CLIL activities (Content and Language Integrated Learning). In the project both students and teachers used modern communication tools like eTwinning, Facebook and e-mail which will enhance our students’ digital skills. Moreover, teachers shared their methodologies to achieve a higher level of education.

The project strengthened not only the skills of the students, but promoted the editorial skills of teachers as well, along with the use of modern media and their insight in how they are created and how they are developing. Next to these skills, another outcome was a collection of international articles comprised in a ‘European magazine’. The methodologies acquired in the project were made available by means of a freely accessible website.

What was innovative is the fact that teachers and students got experienced the practical side of entrepreneurship in media production by personal contact with professionals. Their awareness on how media are made and received is raised. The contact with journalists and the interviews with local people and the practical part of creating articles and videos themselves offered a unique and objective point of view on how media should work. Now in the end of the project, we believe this have inspired the students to continue with media production, and for some a future as journalists.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 109250 Eur

Project Coordinator

Lena Videregående Skole & Country: NO

Project Partners

• Fatma Emin Kutvar Anadolu Lisesi
• Strabrecht College
• Liceo Rambaldi Valeriani A. da Imola
• Ramsgrange Community School
• Max-Planck-Gymnasium
• Gymnazium Karla Capka, Dobris, Skolni 1530