European Literacy and Citizenship Education-Plus Erasmus Project

Project Title

European Literacy and Citizenship Education-Plus

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 addressing more than one field

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

*Context of our project
The rise of nationalistic and populist opinions in Europe and the growing lack of interest for matters European show the need for a more inclusive, intercultural and dynamic education of EU citizens. The current global environment, the climactic changes, the high level of unemployment cry out for innovative educational approaches to meet tomorrow’s challenges.
Europe 2020 strategy underlines the following claims:
– Making lifelong learning and mobility a reality
– Improving the quality and efficiency of education and training
– Promoting equity, social cohesion and active citizenship
– Enhancing creativity and innovation, including entrepreneurship at all levels of education and training.
And such are our priorities in our ELICIT+ project.
*Objectives
Our first objective was to conceive and to implement a set of training modules for teachers, parents and other educators in order to establish a sustainable and growing network for the education and training of a growing number of pupils, students and adults, to help them to develop into responsible citizens, capable of finding their place and assert themselves as Europeans in the global community. This project is the result of a cooperation between two networks: ELOS and ELICIT and has been enriched with the participation of CSIE, the Center for Studies on Inclusive Education.
*Number and profile of the participating institutions
At the beginning of the project, in 2014, the consortium counted 25 partners from 13 different EU Member states; for personal reasons, 2 of our partners opted out and it is a group of 23 institutions which has successfully cooperated throughout the 3 years to meet the project’s objectives. The group includes 15 associations or foundations, 2 schools, 5 universities and 1 inspectorate. The geographical span is a cultural asset, as it goes from Lithuania to the South of Spain, from Bulgaria to the West of France and includes Romania, Hungary, Austria, Slovenia, Italy, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. The participation of associations brings real added value as their members are to be found at national levels, thus ensuring a wider zone of influence for the project.
*Main activities implemented during the project
True to what was announced in our application, we designed, tested and implemented a set of training modules known under the code name of “short intensive training programmes”: the 3 C1 prototypes, designed in a collaborative manner by trans-European teams were delivered at the beginning (October 2015 in Paris, FR) and toward the end of the project (February 2017 in Constanta, RO and June 2017 in Kecskemet, HU). They were adapted and published as 11 C2 training courses targeted at teachers and educators and 3 C3 training sessions aimed at mixed audiences. Based on the reference frameworks developed by ELOS and ELICIT, the ELICIT+ training sessions produce pedagogical tools and interactive approaches in an intercultural and inclusive perspective. The catalogue is published on the valorisation platform as O2.
*Results and impact
A total of around 370 participants attended our courses and training sessions.
Besides the training sessions and the production of pedagogical tools, ELICIT¨+ has initiated various studies carried out by University researchers to assess the short-term impact of our training sessions on the participants’ representations and attitudes as EU citizens in their personal, professional and civic life. The results of these studies have been published on the Erasmus+ valorisation platform as O3. ELICIT+ researchers plan to carry out more studies to try and measure longer-term effects.
The intellectual outputs of ELICIT+ have all been published on the Erasmus+ valorisation platform: 19 pedagogical tools known as O1-A1; 9 course manuals distributed as follows: 4 O1-A2, 2 O1-A3 and 3 O1-A4. 7 publications O2 and 4 research papers, O3.
The 370 persons who took part in ELICIT+ training sessions are all educational mediators and therefore they have a strong power of multiplying influence with their children, their pupils, their students, their colleagues, their schools. We have already noted some concrete consequences in the form of potential school partnerships initiated during our training sessions between teachers from different EU countries. Equally significant is the project of cooperation between the educational institutions of Tirol (AT) and the rectorat of Nancy (FR) following the ELICIT+ training session in Innsbruck (AT). Regarding French educational authorities, we are very positive after our recent meeting at the Ministry of Education, on October 16th 2017, when we presented the ELICIT+ objectives for the development of a European educational project.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 309412,01 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITE DE LIMOGES & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Association Européenne de l’Education-France
• EBB-AEDE
• Tanárok Európai Egyesülete
• UNIVERSITE DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE
• JAEL Educatie
• UNIVERSIDAD DE CORDOBA
• Kecskemeti Foiskola