Financial and Entrepreneurial Skills for an Active Citizenship Erasmus Project

Project Title

Financial and Entrepreneurial Skills for an Active Citizenship

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Economic and financial affairs (incl. funding issues)

Project Summary

The aim of this project is to get students from 13 to 18 years of 6 European schools to acquire the knowledge and the ability to understand fundamental economic-financial principles supporting students in the formation of basic skills and key competences to become active, informed citizens able to participate in civic and social life and face with awareness and knowledge the choices concerning their inclusion in the labour market.
The project is spread over 2 years marked by educational and laboratory activities related to the themes of the value of money and its conscious use, personal financial planning, the value of savings and tools and financial investments to create and finance a new business, considering the risks deriving from wrong investments, and finally how to invest in social security thinking about the future. Therefore, this project will help to build a training course towards citizenship education.
With this project the schools intend to promote financial education as a curricular approach that completely integrates the disciplinary curricula (economics, finance, business administration, maths, History, language, IT, civics) with the long-term goal of creating a new informed and aware economic citizenship.
The target groups are students, teachers and staff in schools. All our activities are student-oriented, useful and feasible by them, designed to increase their skills and financial knowledge; the teachers also must improve their training and teaching abilities.
The aim of the project is also to facilitate the learning and skills of our weakest students and to motivate through a learning process based on experience and between peers; at the same way the most motivated and capable students have the opportunity to achieve more, and above all to benefit by participating in this project at the European level.
Participation in each of the 4 LTTAs is a unique experience for students, a key opportunity for their training as each European exchange will encourage reflection on their needs compared with those ones of European peers, on the priorities set and the orientations expected for their future employment. Each LTTA will constitute an incomparable environment of work and experience for the motivation, engagement and learning.
Likewise, the 2 short-term joint staff training events offer teachers important opportunities to exchange good practices, to integrate methodologies, contents and tools that will complement each other in a transversal curriculum of financial education in a European perspective with an impact on traditional school activities.
Two of relevant concrete results of the teaching activities, apart those ones of the LTTA, are a Handbook for a transversal approach to financial education and the Dictionary of financial education. All the products will be visible and made available to everyone on the ETwinning platform and on the websites of each partner school.

Project Website

https://twinspace.etwinning.net/75672

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 93720,9 Eur

Project Coordinator

ITCG Ferruccio Niccolini & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Ekonomska i turisticka skola Daruvar
• IES Severo Ochoa
• Rokiskio r. Pandelio gimnazija
• Secondary Public Vocational School of Economics, Law and Trade “Kuzman Josifoski – Pitu”
• Diósdi Eötvös József Német Nemzetiségi Általános Iskola és Alapfokú Muvészeti Iskola