HERE Map Makers Erasmus Project

Project Title

HERE Map Makers

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 school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

Digital cartography is attractive field to apply modern, practical and innovative learning methods because of rapid changes in technology of cartography and GIS (Geographic information system). Digital technologies are bringing new possibilities to improve cartographic and GIS education, which have a relatively small part in schools.
Therefore, schools in this project are connected with HERE company, one of the leading companies in the world in digital cartography, which will give teachers and students the opportunity to be in touch with the latest trends in digital cartography. This project enables modern technology and methodology transfer from business sector into school educational system. Exchanging good practices, sharing ideas, skills, expertise and knowledge among partner schools will improve learning methods and pedagogical approaches based on the latest ICT tools for GIS.
The objective of this project is to strengthen capacities of schools in teaching GIS in accordance with modern trends of making digital maps. Sharing practices and experiences with partner schools and acquiring new competences from the private sector by using the newest technologies will result in increased level of digital competences of teachers and students. The main target groups, 14 teachers and 70 students, will benefit from this innovative approach in their classes because the project will bring them new possibilities to learn with modern ICT tools, innovative contents and methods.
Through the project, teachers will be educated to use the latest technologies in the field of GIS. They will transfer knowledge of using HERE software tools for gathering, visualizing and analyzing spatial data and processes to their students, by using methods, contents and activities where student is an active subject of the learning process. In the summer camp students will have tasks to detect specific changes in real world and update changes on map, using HERE Map Creator. Study visits to other countries will be organized because of different approaches in learning GIS and sharing good practices among schools. The result of the project will be digital maps of local area, including tourist or cultural content.
By using latest technology in GIS, educational process in the schools will be modernized through implementation of innovative ways of teaching, and key modern competences of teachers and students will be ensured. Comparing and analyzing practices in other European schools, will give schools possibilities of getting new ideas and good practices to their own school. Besides improving IT competences and expertise in GIS, both teachers and students will cooperate and communicate with schools abroad and thus improve their foreign language skills, develop team work competences and social skills. Development of exact skills and know-how will assure students the competitiveness, initiative, independence, responsibility and development of critical thinking. Implementation of innovative practice on international level will have an important impact on development promoting and modernization of schools.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 103059,08 Eur

Project Coordinator

Srednja skola Ivanec & Country: HR

Project Partners

• Liceo Scientifico e Linguistico “O. Tedone”
• IES SEFARAD
• Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace Przymierza Rodzin im. Jana Pawla 2
• Srednja gradbena, geodetska in okoljevarstvena sola Ljubljana
• Gospodarska skola Varazdin
• Geodetska skola
• HERE EUROPE B.V. Glavna Podruznica Zagreb