Find Your Balance Erasmus Project

Project Title

Find Your Balance

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Health and wellbeing; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Teaching and learning of foreign languages

Project Summary

Project Find Your Balance was created in cooperation with partner schools from Germany, Poland, Macedonia and Estonia. Scheduled for 2017-2019, it aimed to:
1) Increasing the digital competences of participants in the field of applications for learning, self-presentation and obtaining information;
2) Spreading awareness about the dangers of excessive use of cell phones;
3) Showing participants development opportunities in the field of sport and artistic activities in the local environment;
4) Increasing language and social competence as well as cultural sensitivity of participants.
The project creators intended to create a kind of balance in the lives of project participants. On the one hand, enriching the knowledge of their students with examples useful for learning applications, on the other, giving opportunities for social, health and cultural development without the use of technology. Examples of good practices and working methods in the project were collected and published in Find Your Balance – the Guidebook, a guidebook published on the project’s website and printed in hundreds of copies. Among the intangible results, the most important seems to be the fact that students established relationships with peers during mobilities, not only improved English, but gained knowledge about other countries and experience of being in an international group that will shape them throughout their lives.
The objectives were achieved through a wide range of activities which took place in partner schools and during activities related to learning, teaching and training, which had the following schedule:
1) November 2017 – Skopje, Macedonia, Krste Misirkov Primary School,
2) April 2018 – Tartu, Macedonia, Tartu Veeriku Kool Primary School,
3) October 2018 – Mysiadło, Poland, Primary School in Mysiadło,
4) May 2019 – Loxstedt, Germany, Gymnasium Loxstedt.
69 students aged 12-14 were participants of the project. During mobility and work in schools, students got to know many applications, participated in lectures on creating computer games, robotics and fake news workshops, visited the cities of Warsaw, Skopje, Tartu, and Bremen, met with representatives of local authorities, took part in sports and culinary activities. They were active creators of presentations and performances exhibited in the project.
The implementation of the project went smoothly, inter alia thanks to the well-used opportunities that were brought by the International Project Meetings for coordinators, which took place in:
1) September 2017 – Mysiadło / Poland,
2) September 2018 – Loxstedt / Germany,
3) June 2019 – Skopje / Macedonia.
Because the cooperation among the partners took place in a very friendly, constructive atmosphere, and the subject still offers many opportunities for its implementation, the proposal of the new APPic Learning project was written and received funding in Germany. Thus, partners for the next two years will create further development opportunities for students of their schools and teachers.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 83275 Eur

Project Coordinator

Zespol Szkol Publicznych w Mysiadle & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Osnovno uciliste “Krste Misirkov” Skopje
• Tartu Veeriku Kool
• Gymnasium Loxstedt