Every Drop Counts Erasmus Project

Project Title

Every Drop Counts

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; Access for disadvantaged; Teaching and learning of foreign languages

Project Summary

Future education is created by acting now. Current challenges, such as students’ low motivation in learning that influences their success in lifelong learning and in work life; great need of multicultural social interaction to build cooperative, open minded society and the thread of future environmental changes led 6 schools from Czech Republic, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Spain to join in forces and create “Every Drop Counts” (EDC) project.
Indicated project motivation is strongly linked to each partner’s school development plan and main priorities in Europe’s development strategies. First of all, the ability of citizens to communicate in at least two languages besides their mother tongue has been identified as a key priority in the EU’s ET 2020 Framework. (“Smarter, greener, more inclusive – indicators to support The Europe 2020 Strategy”, 2016 Edition). Also, education and training systems must deliver the right mix of skills, including digital and transversal key competences, media literacy, and communication in a foreign language (“An Agenda for new skills and jobs”).

The main idea for this project came out also considering these aspects:
●continuation of the previous Erasmus+ KA2 project “On the Wings of Europe” focused on environmental topics and preparing innovative educational materials
●the need of collaborative initiative in exchanging good practice and educational tools for schools to increase motivation of students for learning and achieving good results
●the need of collaboration in Europe facing the significant environmental changes in future
●providing opportunities for disadvantaged students and also setting new challenges for highly motivated students
●the importance of building young people´s personal skills as ability of intercultural communication, teamwork and fluency in foreign language

There will be organised 1 staff training for 12 teachers and 6 short-term pupils’ exchanges for 144 students (13-18 years old) in order to achieve main objectives of the project:
●to motivate students to be active in learning process and equip them with skill sets to help them to be successful in their future jobs, to become responsible citizens and attractive to international labour market
●to spread awareness of fragile environmental equilibrium which does not recognize the state borders and to promote the notion of responsibility of every citizen towards the environment
●to provide more opportunities for disadvantaged students in their growth
●to boost personal growth of good students
●to enlarge knowledge and expertise of teachers
●to enforce creative and critical thinking and promote active citizenship
●to motivate the students to take responsibility of their learning and self-evaluating
●to support active language learning
●to promote effective language teaching
There will also be other pupils and teachers who will participate in local activities at schools.

Teachers mobility will be essential to exchange good practice in active learning methods, to find creative ways of working with students and to support students in the preparation of project materials, to prepare them to work in multicultural teams, to evaluate students’ progress successfully, be active and deepen their personal and professional development as a part of lifelong learning.
The main theme of the programme of students’ exchanges and local activities at schools will be focused on environmental issues (WATER) and its protection; active learning and language learning. Students will become more responsible Europeans by interacting with other young people from different countries, also with those from disadvantaged backgrounds, presenting their lessons to kindergarten children and by exchanging views among different cultures. During this project we will use methods of active learning, peer learning, problem-based learning and other student-centred approaches, as learning by teaching, creating collaborative learning groups, using debates, discussions, role playing and also previous project developed tools.

We intend to produce following outputs:
• guide for teachers on active learning activities based on students´ experience
• project journals
• videos from the students´ exchanges
• presentations of students´ created materials
The implemented activities will be a part of schools’ internationalisation strategy that will ensure continuation of work on “EDC” project objectives. Shared experience and presented project outputs in the community and other organisations will ensure the awareness of importance of active learning methods, teamwork and collaboration.

After completion of the project, trained teachers will act as trainers and “ambassadors” of active learning and environmental protection advocates to make the project sustainable. They will pass the knowledge within and outside the partnership throughout online and offline channels and networks. Future projects will be discussed and planned during the cooperation.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 180300 Eur

Project Coordinator

Stredni prumyslova skola chemicka Pardubice & Country: CZ

Project Partners

• Zespol Szkol Spolecznych Fundacji Edukacji “Fabryczna 10” w Bialymstoku
• Ignalinos r. Duksto mokykla
• I.I.S. VIA EMERY 97 ( ex ITC Calamandrei, ex IPS Stendhal)
• IES Virgen de Guadalupe
• Malpils novada vidusskola