Facebook or Face to Face?A multicultural exploration of the positive and negative impacts of science and technology on the 21st century. Erasmus Project

Project Title

Facebook or Face to Face?A multicultural exploration of the positive and negative impacts of science and technology on the 21st century.

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: Creativity and culture; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

The main topics and goals of this project were to explore the positive and negative impacts of modern technology on modern European individuals and modern European societies in terms of social skills, communicative skills and linguistic skills during a three year project timeframe.
The project was intended as exchanges of practices and cooperation between six highly profiled EU schools in Latvia, England, Spain, France, Germany and Denmark.
The schools in Latvia, England, Spain and Denmark had already completed a successful Comenius partnership which was intended to be prolonged into this project with the additional cooperation of two new schools in France and Germany.
The main aim of the project was to explore and research the effects and impacts of modern technology by linking the topic of contemporary uses of modern technology to the past and by adding the topic of “Migration” in exploring how the six participating EU countries were formed and what their identities were before the existence of modern technology.
The first year of the project therefore consisted in exploring the past identities of the six EU countries involved in the project by compiling information about the cultural heritages and backgrounds of each country and by creating family trees, migration maps and informative posters to be used within the local communities of each country.
Another project activity and result of the first year of the project was to create film-interviews and documentaries exploring the national identity linked to the past and to the topic of migration for each country.
The second year of the project, with “The Environment” as its main topic, was intended as a continuation of the first year of the project and as an exploration of how scientific advances have led to industry and to population growth which have then led to environmental problems.
The second year of the project therefore moved into exploring positive solutions to e. g. pollution problems created by scientific advances.
The main student activities of the second project year consisted in raising awareness about the environmental problems in each country involved and suggesting ways to encourage people to think of alternative ways of protecting the environment.
This was carried out through debates held in local communities, documentaries on the environmental issues of each participating country, film-interviews made in local communities and informative posters and postcards to be distributed in the local areas of each country.
The third and final year of the project focused on major events since WW2 and subsequently moved into explorations on the contemporary positive and negative uses of modern technology in each EU country involved by researching how modern individuals use modern technology and how this affects the individual in terms of social skills, communicative skills and human identity.
This was explored and researched through the creation of documentaries and short films on the potential future scenarios of modern technology, film-interviews, time capsules and surveys held at each participating school.
The main methodological approach of the project was intended as comparative studies of all student activity results conducted in each country throughout the project.
During the main student and teacher meetings of each project year, the students therefore gradually compared and contrasted the results of the various student activities carried out in each participating country.
All main written and visual project results have been uploaded to ewinning, Facebook as well as to a project web page which is intended for demonstrating the main content and nature of the project, the main project activity results and for potentially compiling teaching material on the topics used in the project for other schools to use. Please see Point 8., Annexes, for a link to the project website.
The project web page will furthermore be maintained and expanded with room for ideas on further potential project activities after the completion of the project and can be used as a platform for potential communication between inside participants of the project and outside interest groups.
The main impacts and the main sustainability of the project are therefore connected to the project web page, gathering and demonstrating all project activities and project results.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 97545 Eur

Project Coordinator

Struer Statsgymnasium & Country: DK

Project Partners

• I.E.S. Padre Manjón
• BFET-Altrincham Grammar School for Girls
• Rigas 41.vidusskola
• Lycée Val de Lys
• Maria-Ward-Gymnasium Augsburg