Get infected to be protected – Developing e-learning materials and Prevention-Units about infectious diseases to enhance the integration of digital media in learning, teaching and training Erasmus Project

Project Title

Get infected to be protected –
Developing e-learning materials and Prevention-Units about infectious diseases to enhance the integration of digital media in learning, teaching and training

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 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Health and wellbeing; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

The main topic “infectious diseases” of the Erasmus+ project “Be infected to be protected” is corresponding with the aims of the EU Health Programme of 2014 and a result of the Comenius project “Neobiota” (2013) showing that vectors and germs do not stop at national borders either.
Reports about Ebola in Africa and multiresistent bacteria in the hospitals at home upset citizens of all ages. But already existing teaching and learning material was often not suitable or motivating enough and often yet analog on paper and protected by copyrights.

Due to the redrawal of the Spanish school the multilateral partnership includes only five partnerschools: Gymnasium Donauwörth in Bavaria, Liceo Statale Coluccio Salutati in Montecatini Terme (Toscany), Aizpute Vidusskola in the western part of Latvia, Christelijk College Groevenbeek in Ermelo (Harderland in the middle of the Netherlands) and Os Gymnas south of Bergen (Norway).

The aim of the project was to develop diverse digital material for schools, enhancing in this way the use of digital media in teaching, learning and training. Applying for a multilateral school partnership international students‘ working groups (of the secondary II classes) were established on Etwinning, moderated by the teachers involved and met face-to-face during the l-t-t-activities to finalize and present the results there in English. That was the main approach to train diverse transversal skills of all participants. The project was able to motivate girls to follow up information technology through communication and science through the international team work. On the other hand boys were motivated to deal with foreign languages to be able to share their ideas and knowledge with their team members. Furthermore, this special learning arrangement was a challenge for each group, motivated each student and supported weaker students to develop their competences.

Innovative common teacher and student trainings like hygienic and scientific lectures at hospitals and university as well as workshops practising unkonwn digital tools stimulated the next working phase beyond the impulses given by well experienced participants.
One group of students produced e-learning material concerning biology, i.e. infectious diseases and pathogenic germs, from digitalised fact sheets, presentations and a creative game, stop motion and online quizzes.
A second group was occupied with statistics, from the targeted use of special medical databases and simulations to producing tutorials, in an own design, implementation and analysis of passers’ surveys or observations of relevant behaviour.
A third group adopted an interdisciplinary approach, to change point of view to a economic, social, historic or ethical perspective producing digital presentation using quizzes, learning apps and controverse discussion.

Prevention of all these dangerous germs, proper hygiene measurement and vaccination is a basic need for each person, from the children in kindergarten up to the elderly people in nursery homes. Therefore P(revention)-Units have been developed targeting other eduction institutions, where students were learning by teaching, integrating also digitalized creative comic booklets, posters and short films in their targeted presentations. The N(ews-)Group dealt with digital news not as planned analyzing a continuous blog, but on a different approach. These students designed not only a digital flyer or presentation, but also used role plays for a fictitious TV-interview or debate.

Not only students changed their attitude and practice of learning being well prepared for the studies or professional career. Also teachers enlarged their repertoire of methods and digital tools successfully and got a lot of impulses to reflect their own teaching attitude.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 110215 Eur

Project Coordinator

Gymnasium Donauwörth & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Liceo Statale “Coluccio Salutati”
• IES Calisto y Melibea
• Christelijk College Groevenbeek
• Os gymnas
• Aizputes vidusskola