Future skills and competencies for children Erasmus Project

Project Title

Future skills and competencies for children

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

In order to respond to the new changes in the globalised community threatened by nature disaster and virus pandemic, the education institutions also need to change themselves in a timely manner to provide their schoolchildren with adequate preparation, which in turn, will build them as young professionals highly competitive on the European labor market. This requires the introduction of new pedagogical training methods as well as ICT solutions in the learning process.
In order to encourage the adaptation processes to the new realities, three pre-primary schools from Bulgaria – “Buratino” Kindergarten, Portugal Agrupamento de Escolas “Sá de Miranda” and Italy – Istituto Comprensivo Statale “Don Lorenzo Milani”, each experienced in the respective pedagogical field, join efforts and create a partnership within which they will exchange good teaching practices in the following areas:
1) Developing of key digital skills and competencies.
2) Introducing new creative and interactive learning methods.
3) Multicultural teaching trough implementation of arts, folklore and cultural heritage.

The main objective of the project is to enhance the quality of the offered training by the three pre-primary schools, by complementing it with new teaching methods reflecting the contemporary socio-economic realities and to exchange among them good practices and innovative training approaches. In this way, the young learners will be more prepared for the real life, more competitive for the forthcoming primary schools classes and will receive better adaptation to the new reality of the global calamities.

In line with this objective are the specific objectives of the project:
1) Creating a more attractive and more practical learning process
2) Enhancing the digital competences of teachers and children
3) Introducing in the daily training process the latest ICT tools and applications
4) Strengthening the profile of the teaching profession by supporting teachers to provide high quality education
5) Making the education for children more attractive trough using creative approaches
6) Promoting the European cooperation in the field of education and exchange.

These goals will be achieved through 3 learning teaching training events (including 21 teachers), in which the three partner organizations will exchange pedagogical experience and good practices in the area where they have proven expertise. The learning teaching training events will be aimed at teachers in order to demonstrate better and different perspective the new pedagogical training methods. Thus, the teachers’ groups will observe, discuss and exchange ideas and good practices. The acquired new skills and competences will be transferred by the teachers to their pre-primary schools and on a later stage to their kindergartens in the countries.

The events will be held as exchanges on a rotation basis in the three countries – Portugal, Italy and Bulgaria – one short-term joint staff training event. The training methods that will be used during these events will be in the form of presentations, workshops, group discussions, simulations, case-studies, etc.

The main groups of participants from the 3 partner organisations who will take part in the project will be the work teams of each of the pre-primary schools that will administer and manage it and 21 teachers will be involved in the planned mobilities. Upon the completion of each event, the participants in it will receive a Europass Mobility Certificate to certify the knowledge, the competences and the experience gained.

The expected results from the implementation of the project are:
+ improved language and digital competences of the participating teachers to work with the new ICT in the learning process – multimedia, interactive boards, virtual labs, 3D simulations
+ implementation of the latest ICT in the learning process
+ adopted creative teaching methods (learning games, role-play, visual associations, design thinking) as well as those for work with schoolchildren from vulnerable groups (representatives of ethnic minorities and refugees) by the participated teachers and their subsequent implementation in the teaching activities
+ developed ready-to-use pedagogical materials – presentations, articles, interactive tasks, etc. – on project topics and their distribution among other schools in Europe.
The exchange of good learning practices and the implementation of innovative learning approaches will contribute to the updating of the learning process in the three pre-primary schools, and thus benefiting not only the direct participants, but also current and future teachers, thereby achieving sustainability project results.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 37850 Eur

Project Coordinator

DETSKA GRADINA BURATINO – PLOVDIV & Country: BG

Project Partners

• Istituto Comprensivo Statale “Don Lorenzo Milani”
• Agrupamento de Escolas Sá de Miranda