Enhance self-awareness and balance the personalized learning in ESL prevention through a Smart Learning Environment Erasmus Project

Project Title

Enhance self-awareness and balance the personalized learning in ESL prevention through a Smart Learning Environment

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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Open and distance learning; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

Enable project aims at reducing the number of early school leavers by developing career-oriented soft skills, enhanced in a technological environment. The European Union has set the goal of reducing the number of young people who leave school by 2020 by 10%. Students enhance transversal skills oriented towards the labor market through teaching supported by technology.
The European Union intends to support young people and allow them to fully develop their personal talents. One of the main obstacles to the full achievement of this goal is the high rate of young people leaving school before completing the learning path and before obtaining a certification that guarantees them to be competitive within the labor market.
The causes of early school leaving can be social, economic, individual or linked to learning difficulties. Plausible countermeasures can be the effective use of educational technology and the growth of awareness of educational goals in students.
The use of the ENABLE platform for the development of soft skills allows a personalized approach to learning, a diversification of training paths to adapt them to cognitive styles and even to the expectations of young people.
The student himself has some control over his training. The teacher or tutor can communicate directly with the student, assigning tasks and personally verifying progresses: for a student, especially if at risk of leaving school, having the opportunity to create his/her own portfolio of skills and negotiate educational goals useful for training a soft skill, is a powerful incentive to empowerment and consequently to the realization that what you learn is useful. By stimulating the curiosity of the students and their personal interests, their self-respect and awareness can be gratified and improved.
IIS Federico Caffè in Rome is the Coordinator of the project that has Partners from four different countries, Italy, Lithuania, Romania, Sweden: the Regional school Office of Lazio (USR), Eco E-learning, as a technological partner, Effebi association (Finance & Banking, Association for Organizational Development and Human Resources), Technology and Scientific Park of Kaunas (LT), Simono Daukanto Progimnazija School of Kaunas (LT), Gheorghe Lazar National College of Bucharest (RO ) and Folkuniversitetet of Uppsala (SE).
In addition to the activities planned within the Project Management and Implementation, A1- management plan; A2- quality plan; A3- Skype Partner meetings; A4 – monitoring and evaluation activities; A5- administrative and financial management activities; A6 – realization of the material for dissemination (brochures, newsletters, website, social pages); A7- agreement on Intellectual Property Rights and Open Access Strategy of the results obtained, five important outputs have been realized: O1-research and analysis of needs in the field of dispersion; O2 – the choice of the methodological approach; O3 – the realization of the technological environment; O4- realization and integration of pedagogical contents into the learning platform; O5 – Pilot Project to test the project activities.
The Partners met in 7 transnational meetings and carried out 7 Multiplier Events for the dissemination of the project results.
One hundred European students have strengthened their soft skills, carrying out the activities prepared by the Partners and inserted on Enable platform.
Twenty teachers have improved their methodology, acting as tutors during the pilot project. The dissemination plan had been established from the very beginning of the project with the aim of spreading information about the project’s aims, results and outputs through websites, newsletters, seminars and events, brochures and articles.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 392294 Eur

Project Coordinator

ISTITUTO DI ISTRUZIONE SUPERIORE FEDERICO CAFFE’ & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Finance & Banking, Associazione per lo Sviluppo Organizzativo e delle Risorse Umane
• E-CO e-learning studio srl
• Ufficio Scolastico Regionale del Lazio
• Kauno Simono Daukanto progimnazija
• Gheorghe Lazar National College
• STIFTELSEN KURSVERKSAMHETEN VID U-AUNIVERSITET
• Kauno mokslo ir technologiju parkas