Enrichment is the result of meeting Erasmus Project

Project Title

Enrichment is the result of meeting

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: Inclusion – equity; Disabilities – special needs; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

We are a small public school with 240 students from 3 to 12 years old (infant and primary levels). We have an excellent Autism Development Program together with a General Development Disorder program that we want to improve with the use of New technologies. Since 2013 we develop an English Bilingual program without good results on our students. We need to improve the use of English as a real vehicle of communication and this KA229 association is the perfect reason to do so.
After analysing the strengths-weaknesses-opportunities-threats (SWOT) in our school, we have developed strategies for promoting the improvement of the objectives. We look for balance in our project guaranteed by the successful experience of Romania in KA1 and KA2, schools with previous experience on Comenius, Italy and Greece, and Spain without experience in Erasmus. The selection process look for complementarity, interests, similar age of the student and a problem-solving relation based on successful experiences.
We have problems of integration with students of different nationalities that began to arrive to the school two years ago, so one of our school necessities is to face the integration and tolerance of these students. We need to open our school to European realities and learn from the Romanian partner that will guide us with their successful experience on respectful multicultural contexts.
Another reason for this project to be founded is the need of our educative community to know different realities and life opportunities that will show our students motivating contexts to go on learning. Linares is the 1st city of Spain with the highest unemployment rate (32,8%) as a consequence we have a high rate of early school leaving students. We need to reduce this rate with the help of the Greek guidance program into the educative system offering equal opportunities connecting schools to local, national and international working possibilities.

Our motivation is:
To share and learn from innovative educative experiences based on student’s diversity and inclusion. We will work with an Italian school with a great experience in order to engage our educative communities to step up into new technologies, coding and robotic education and their effects on children with special needs or learning disabilities.
To give to our students the opportunity to know and move through Europe, due to their disadvantage background and low cultural context, bringing new cultures to their lives with the purpose of developing tolerance from meeting cultural diversity.
To improve our students’ results on the first foreign language (English) + bilingual subjects through the exposure to real and virtual exchanges (e-Twinning).
To develop in our students Key Competencies through active methodologies.

All these experiences will guide us to improve our teachers’ methodologies and as a consequence our students’ motivation and results. It will be a conscious process where everybody understands that we must respect differences, reject xenophobic in favour of partnership, generosity and respect for cultural diversity as human enrichment. That is the reason of the title of the project “Enrichment is the result of meeting”.
We will use the results of this project to improve our teaching and learning process at school, to create an internationalized educative context with inclusion, diversity and respect as our life motive. This KA229 is a real change from memorization to a motivating learning context focussed on active methodologies, using ICT, Art, short term mobilities as a learning tool for pupils, showing empathy, inclusion of special needs, living their difficulties on first person, acquiring new competences for their future working experience. Paying attention to similarities and enriching themselves

Our general objectives are:
To internationalized and open our school.
To reduce in a 10% the early leaving rate in next 5 years.
To improve results on the use of foreign language (L2 and Bilingual subjects).
To face cultural diversity and deal with differences from respect.

Our teaching and learning process at school will be enriched with the project because we will work with all the members of our educative community, not only at the class level (students and teachers)but also families and in general all the community.
This project will also help us to work on the E-twinning label to improve our daily learning and teaching process at the school. All these experiences will guide us to improve our teachers’ methodologies and as a consequence our students’ motivation and results. The project will not be finished in 2022 it will be forever part of the schools, the staff, the teachers, pupils and above all families that will face new opportunities for their children.
We will use the results of this project to improve our teaching and learning process at school, to create an internationalized educative context with inclusion, diversity and respect as our life motive.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 115038 Eur

Project Coordinator

CEIP Marqueses de Linares & Country: ES

Project Partners

• 7th Primary School of Xanthi
• Istituto Comprensivo “Giuseppe Taliercio”
• SCOALA GIMNAZIALA VARIAS JUDET TIMIS