GETTING TO KNOW EUROPE Erasmus Project

Project Title

GETTING TO KNOW EUROPE

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Open and distance learning

Project Summary

The project “Getting to know Europe” tries to meet the formative demands of the students who belong to the bilingual learning system. These systems develop activities aimed at complementing the students’ formation, either through formal or non-formal learning (complementary), therefore providing a greater development of the linguistic competence in a foreign language. Their regulations emphasize the need of promoting complementary activities which provide a more comprehensive formation for these learners and more opportunities for using the foreign language in a varied range of real contexts

The main AIMS of the project are:
-Improvement of the linguistic abilities and motivation for language learning. The aim is for the students to reinforce their competences in order to obtain the B2 or C1 certificate according to the CEFR
-Wider intercultural sensitivity, which will make students more conscious of the social, linguistic and cultural diversity around us
-Promotion of equal learning, collaborative work and self-learning
Through the achievement of these goals, the learners are given a better training and professional preparation, which will favour their incorporation to society as active members

Aims for teachers:
-Better professional development
-Exchange among teachers of teaching strategies and resources to obtain innovative and creative working methods
-Greater motivation and satisfaction in their daily work

Since these aims are common to the European Strategy 2020 promoted by the European Commission, the Erasmus+ project is considered the perfect frame for their achievement. This programme will also help fill some socio-economic gaps between the students involved in it, in a way that this vital and formative experience provides an inclusive and equal answer for all

The PARTICIPANTS are students between 14 and 16 years of age, who have registered in the bilingual learning programme. Lots of students will be directly or indirectly affected along the mobilities. Some of them help to guest students to get adapted in their school and city, and other will be beneficiaries of the culture of them, by talks or during day to day
The people responsible for the coordination of the project are the foreign language and bilingual programme teachers, supported by the school management team
All the school community will be beneficiary through the project

The ACTIVITIES are organised in two main blocks: those carried out in the schools in the periods between mobilities (inter-mobility) and those developed during the mobilities
A) Inter-mobility activities. Students will work by eTwinning platform. They will develop several activities, through which they will spread their culture to their fellow in the partner school. The results will be displayed on the Erasmus corner too. Moreover, there will be video conferences through Twinspace to deal with some specific cultural aspects
B) During mobilities. Students will be ambassadors of their town or country’s culture and traditions, transmitting it to the host students. Furthermore, after going back to their schools, the students will transmit the acquired knowledge during the mobilities. Thus, a culture exchange will be produced in both directions.
They will develop a specific working schedule agreed between schools, which will include a video presentation of themselves and their hometown. They will also provide regular information through the use of a digital diary and video chats
All activities will be shared and spread via eTwinning

We will use an active METHODOLOGY. Students will work to prepare their presentations and conclusions about the topics proposed. Through their live performances presenting these topics and sharing them in eTwinning, they will transmit their own conclusions. Self-learning and collaborative work are thus fostered, together with self-esteem through work. Besides, peer-education is considered as the best way to acquired knowledge about the culture and traditions. A combination between formal and not formal education will be developed

The expected RESULTS will be obtained both in the short and long term. In the short term, students will attain the aims stated above, and so will the teachers. Contact with other teachers and students will result in improved linguistic competence as well as in a greater knowledge of sociocultural diversity. Host families and the rest of the educational community will also reap such benefits. In the long term, the schools involved will benefit from methodological innovation and the didactic resources produced

All knowledges and abilities acquired by students will be reflected by an Europass Mobility certificate which will be included in their Europass Curriculum Vitae

Through the spread of this project in the different platforms (E+PSP, school webs, eTwinning, Facebook…) the impact will be multiplied

eTwinning provides a new experience to students and teachers which will result in future collaborations

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 500 Eur

Project Coordinator

INSTITUTO DE EDUCACIÓN SECUNDARIA “VILLA DE ABARÁN” & Country: ES

Project Partners

• RSG Slingerbos|Levant