HOW CAN I IMPROVE MY EDUCATIVE SYSTEM AND HELP OTHERS ACCESS IT? Erasmus Project

Project Title

HOW CAN I IMPROVE MY EDUCATIVE SYSTEM AND HELP OTHERS ACCESS IT?

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: Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development); Integration of refugees; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

In this beautiful project we aspire to achieve two objetives.
On the one hand, we wanted to improve our practices, both, in our schools in in our own teaching staff through comparison of educative systems of the participating countries.
We also believe that involving students in the improvement of school management and practices is of prime importance in order to make them part of the teaching and learning process and for the development of key competences.
Students have always been the object of our teaching and have never had a word in important things dealing with general school policies, teachers´resources and of course in school management. We really want this to change and strongly believe that it is going to work for everybody´s sake.
Five countries with very different environments are participating: an Austrian school specialized in languages ​​with a long tradition in European projects, a Swedish school focused on teaching through ICT, a Polish school with previous experience in European projects and the Finnish center with experience in immigrant students and collaborating partner in previous Erasmus + projects.
On the other hand, it is our aim to make students and teachers have a first hand knowledge of the problems that the refugees recently arrived to our towns and countries have (what made them leave their homelands and relatives, what do they seek, …) and the way we can help them have an easier access to our countries and cultures. We would like our educative communities to feel more empathic towards people with less opportunities and contribute to their future.
The students have participated in the elaboration European immigration maps , of each country, they have voted for the best and worst policies and school rules, they also have valued the performance of teachers as well as they debated the causes of immigration in their respective countries Likewise, they developed different materials to facilitate knowledge of the contexts of immigrants in our countries and greater knowledge of our countries for immigrants that coming for seeking a better life.
Training activities were carried out to improve teachers’ capacities to use ICT in the classroom, We also learn how to use active methodologies and attend to diversity in their classes.
As for the first aim, three of the participating schools have already been associated in a previous ERASMUS + project. We know each other by now and know what our assets are. However, we haven´t had the opportunity to deeply observe our teaching practice and school running policies. This is what we have planned to do along the three years of the project. During transnational meetings participating teachers will give lessons in English of the subject they teach at home. They will be observed by the subject department members in the hosting school and pupils . Best resources will be imported in each department.
We wanted as an important aspect that the largest number of students in our school had the opportunity to participate in the different short and long term mobility, this is an aspect that enhances the possibilities of expanding their vital and educational experiences, enhancing the vision of change that raises our center.
We have also observed in all participating schools that students are utterly unconnected to their own school´improvement policies. We strongly believe that by making kids participate actively in their own school improvement we will not only get better students and qualified people for any job they do in their future but also that the measures each school decides to import will be respected and backed by all sectors of the educative community.
As for the second aim, we have to mention that in our previous strategic partnership we got to visit the refugee centre in Melilla.
Another of the objectives, partially achieved, is to get closer to the reality of the CETI (temporary detention center for immigrants)
The really hard situation of migrants and their harsh living conditions until they reach European borders , They really know nothing about the European culture , habits and norms that make integration difficult for them. Our students tried to close this gap by making a series of guides from different countries, forming a European cultural information guide with the aim of integrating them into host countries. With this cultural guide we will have a simple tool to provide basic information about Europe and its customs.
Unfortunately, the failure to carry out the last key mobility in Melilla limited or prevented some of our activities. Dissemination activities, international craft market, African cooking activities … we are still satisfied with the work done

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 149609,58 Eur

Project Coordinator

IES Enrique Nieto & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Europagymnasium Salzburg- Nonntal
• Havukosken koulu
• Thoren Innovation School Uddevalla
• XVIII Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace im. Jana Zamoyskiego