Europe works by projects Erasmus Project

Project Title

Europe works by projects

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 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development); ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

European 2020 strategy and its objectives are set out in 5 fields: education, employment, innovation, poverty and climate change. Of these fields, our project wanted to collaborate on the first 4. Seven flagship initiatives support those goals, they create the framework in which the EU and national administrations can join efforts and reinforce each other in areas related to the Europe 2020 priorities: innovation, digital economy, employment, youth, industrial policy, poverty and efficient use of resources. These 7 flagship initiatives are distributed into three areas of growth: intelligent, the sustainable and the Integrator.
Within the smart growth the main objective is the improvement of performance by stimulating the need to learn, study and update knowledge, the use of innovative new products and the use of ICT. This was precisely what we wanted to achieve with the development of our project.
Our project emphasized the initiative “youth on the move” that aimed to:
· help students to study abroad
· better prepare young people for the labour market thanks to the skills acquired throughout the learning process
· bring to our students the enriching opportunity to study at European universities
· foster academic and excellence of equal opportunities through the improvement of the levels of education and training

The cultural diversity generated by this project enriches and strengthens the relations between Finland and Spain. It is very important to exchange experiences and educational methodologies between these two European countries with so disparate contexts also after the project.

As a result, the main objectives that we achieved from this project were:
· Knowing educational system in secondary level in Spain and Finland, and discovering how to work in both countries using the methodology of “Problem based learning” instead of working by subjects. This is, experience the “learning by doing” methodology (Project based learning), as long as students will learn about these two countries by making research and then by comparing the results achieved
· Bringing students to the social and cultural realities of Finland and Spain.
· Strengthening created links between Finland and Spain in previous European projects.
· Working on the students’ personal autonomy in order to enable them to manage on their own outside the family environment,which will be transferred to later stages
· Knowing and adapt to other social, geographical,university and laboral realities within the European framework, accepting and respecting possible differences in daily life contexts
· Improving the linguistic competence in the “lingua franca” and incorporating new languages to the students’ communicative repertoire
· Encouraging the use of ICT in education

Our students have had the chance to be in these two different European regions and to experience their different lifestyles. So this project has helped us to promote students and teachers’ mobility and to continue with the great experiences that some students have had before.

The main results of this project have been to generate a public website, a dvd with all presentations created all through the project and a video with the students’ experiences.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 54060 Eur

Project Coordinator

IES FRANCISCO MONTOYA & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Lovisanejdens högstadium