Europe Online Erasmus Project

Project Title

Europe Online

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Environment and climate change; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Energy and resources

Project Summary

The project, Europe Online, looks to the future and considers the evolution of our communities and environment in 30 years from now. Based on a collective hypothesis and collaborative research led by students into the positive impact of technology, science and digital innovations, participants will diplomatically negotiate and create a global charter in accordance with the governing laws and social etiquettes of each participating nation. The principles of this charter will be disseminated across our schools and communities with the purpose of endorsing systems for safeguarding our local and wider surroundings. Moreover, they will promote common goals towards the future sustainability of our joint communities, as well as our global ecosystem.

Europe Online establishes a link between schools in the UK, Germany and Italy, who share common experiences and priorities. All partner schools are motivated to establish a project based on innovations in technology and the skills that accompany collaborative work on a global scale, with a view to broadening students’ outlook, skills and future career opportunities.
All schools involved are located in the proximity of an urban setting and they share similar experiences concerning cultural, social and economic diversity, as well as comparable environmental concerns. Moreover, our schools uphold an international and multicultural ethos, and owing to the diversity of our school cohorts, many of our students share common languages and educational experiences.

The objectives of our project are:

– To develop students’ skills in ICT, technology and science by exploring innovations in digital technology, which aim to improve environmental sustainability.
– To motivate students to engage with changing global priorities and how these can be addressed through evolutions in technology and science.
– To develop students’ research and analytical skills by investigating and hypothesising what our global environments will look like in the future.
– To develop students’ skills in cooperation and diplomacy to agree on a charter, which fulfils common goals to the future sustainability of our joint communities.
– To promote cross curricular learning and to provide students with a broader skills sets, including foreign language skills, which are relevant to global concerns and careers of the future.

The project will run over a two-year period and will include a week-long movement to each participating country. At the beginning of the project, there will be a series of collaborative workshops on diplomacy and the implementation of a global charter, delivered by video conference. Prior to the project weeks, there will be a face-to-face staff-planning meeting prior to each movement where clear aims, objectives and an itinerary for the movement will be agreed. Following each staff meeting, student participants from the visiting partner schools will carry out directed research on each of the partner schools’ local communities and relevant environmental concerns to each area.

During the project weeks, students will engage in the following:
– A series of workshops to develop their awareness of what constitutes a global charter and the skills required to ensure its effective implementation.
– A series of workshops to develop their awareness of the rights and responsibilities of global citizens in the safeguarding of our communities and environment.
– Workshops and visits to local industries and eco-sustainable projects to develop their awareness of how digital technologies, science and modern communication tools, such as apps, can promote and facilitate eco-sustainability for the future.
– Workshops and visits to local industries and eco-sustainable projects to explore the impact that these innovations have already had on the local community and how they can evolve in the future to resolve arising environmental concerns that are likely to affect our communities.
– The creation of digital resources to promote the priorities and the motivations of the global charter, which can be shared with the school and wider communities.
– The delivery of assemblies to the wider school cohort to raise awareness of the project and its objectives.

The results of the project will be advertised widely across the partnership using digital resources, E-Twinning site, school websites, press and social media. Digital resources, produced by the project participants, will be promoted and disseminated to each of the partner schools, as well as other local schools and local industries, with whom the schools have established links – either through the project or through prior connections. In addition, the results and resources produced will be incorporated into a range of subject lessons, promoting cross-curricular teaching and learning and inspiring future areas of study within our educational settings and beyond into further education.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 93408 Eur

Project Coordinator

Thomas Deacon Education Trust T/A Queen Katharine Academy & Country: UK

Project Partners

• Städtische-Werner-von-Siemens-Realschule München
• istituto comprensivo statale sferracavallo onorato