European survival through CLIL: the rule of 3s Erasmus Project

Project Title

European survival through CLIL: the rule of 3s

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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Teaching and learning of foreign languages

Project Summary

Our project “European survival: the rule of the 3 Rs” has been developed throughout three years of intense cooperation among the six European participating schools, from Bulgaria, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, and Spain. The project targeted CLIL 8Content and Language Integrated Learning) students aged 13/14 at the beginning of the project and 16 at the end of it. For this reason, we selected schools which have long-lasting experience in CLIL programmes, together with schools where the programme was merely starting, so that the development of the project could trigger the implementation of CLIL. Our project general goal was to improve the participating students’ level of both communicative and intercultural competences by means of working transnationally on topics included in the different CLIL subjects, within both task-based and content-based approaches. In order to achieve this general goal, we had to choose a topic that could be approached in a multidisciplinary way, so that the different CLIL subjects could contribute to it. Thus, we decided on the topics connected to survival skills (air, water, shelter, food).Furthermore, our second general goal was to make our students aware of the concept of what is really basic for survival and how to rationally use it, avoiding its waste, and helping to preserve the resources still available, by means of reducing, reusing and recycling, putting a stop to consumerism.
Regarding the activities, we have carried out several activities following the guidelines set each time by a different participating country. The activities have included creating musical instruments from recycled materials, studying the water consume, the carbon footprint, survival activities with the army, learning about the different types of refugees and housing, learning about the traditional dishes that emerged as the result of hunger or lack of resources, the interviews to refugees and immigrants or geocaching.
The results and also the guidelines to develop these CLIL tasks have been made available online at the project website and listed on the European Results plattform, so they may be reused by other CLIL teachers in Europe, as a self-access CLIL repository of activities. We consider this project has had a positive impact on the educational community of the different schools as we have checked that, for example, the water consumption of the families involved in the project has decreased since it started. Furthermore, the participating students have lead different initiatives and campaigns of water consume reduction and recycling, reusing and reducing in the different educational centres. On the other hand, the project has received several quality distinctions both in Spain and Romania. The long term mobilities, one of which was distinguished due to its quality by SEPIE, and which were only 4 students per year, have been the seed for a new and ongoing Erasmus+ KA229 project where during three years 22 European students per year participate in a two-month- long-term mobility.
Finally, the general cooperation amongst partners in this project has turned out to be so positive that most of the participating schools are already cooperating to submit a new proposal for another strategic partnership for 2020.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 152880 Eur

Project Coordinator

IES PÉREZ GALDÓS & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Agrupamento de Escolas André Soares
• Scoala Gimnaziala “Elena Cuza” Iasi
• Kauno r. Garliavos Jonuciu progimnazija
• 18 Comprehensive school William Gladstone
• Gimnazjum nr 4 im. Kardynala Stefana Wyszynskiego w Tychach