Improving the well-being of students is the basis to be a good European Citizen Erasmus Project

Project Title

Improving the well-being of students is the basis to be a good European Citizen

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Teaching and learning of foreign languages

Project Summary

The project “Improving the well-being of our students is the basis for being a good European citizen” contributed to the personal development as well as the intercultural development of abilities, skills and experiences of pupils of Sciliar at our partner schools in the European Community. Specifically, we supported the acquisition and development of key competences. In international and school-related steering groups the project activities, the implementation was organized, evaluated and documented, so that ideas and conclusions could be put into practice. For this purpose, we used binding schedules and forms of communication via the new media, as well as documentation available to all on our Twinspace. In working groups, classes or group work, students and teachers dealt with European values in various activities, which were methodically prepared and made available in learning, teaching and training materials. We further developed the students’ involvement with content, tasks and problems; knowledge, skills and abilities regarding European values were systematically built up, expanded in a variety of contexts, and an understanding of content and structures in the various fields of knowledge was developed. They learned to access information, to differentiate between important and unimportant matters, to describe facts in technical terms, to use them as a basis for further discussion and to establish connections, they asked questions, found their own solutions and formulated criticism of the matter. The students acquired methodological competence that enabled them to obtain independently and check information, to deal critically with texts and pictures, to apply independently basic rules in group work, to present the results of partner or group work to the project partners in a clear and understandable way, etc. The students learned to plan consciously, control and monitor their learning paths. In the project the learning of skills to cope with an increasing flood of information was selected as carefully as possible. Another important aspect was the development of social skills, such as the ability to communicate in a foreign language, empathy towards the partner pupils and their specific living and learning conditions, tolerance, ability to work in a team, the ability to deal with conflicts, the willingness to compromise, e.g. when staying with host families, and intercultural competence in the interaction with the learning partners in the student exchange. Our young people showed progress in the acquisition of competencies and tested the effectiveness of this in the entire interaction as well as in the lessons at their own school. In the last working stage, the results achieved so far were to be implemented and presented in the final meeting throughout Europe, which did not take place due to political decisions and restrictions because of COVID-19. An online event was not possible due to organizational, technical and temporal coordination, because of the new challenges in teaching organization, digital competence and technical requirements. In the student exchanges carried out until the outbreak of COVID-19, the young people applied their material, methodological and social skills according to their abilities. Throughout the entire project, a constant evaluation of results took place, which served the further development of the project activities, the constant planning adjustment and implementation. The objectives of this Erasmus project were the participation of many students in our European schools in the further development of already existing material, methodological and social competences in order to be able to move competently and flexibly in any country of the EU. A personal well-being in the learning process influences this positively. The following principles of cooperation were observed: Equal rights for all partner schools, constant and binding dialogue, regular further training of teaching staff, each school was host and guest, consistent exchange of project results, use of new technologies for exchange and the promotion of young people with disabilities. We aimed to have a significant impact on language, understanding, acceptance of different cultures, partnerships, improved communication, public presentation and influence on country-specific curricula. The evaluation of all activities showed sustainable effectiveness and the high standard of project activity development and organization. Students, teachers, parents and school environment were involved in the projects. The results were made available to the public through the production of documentation and current local press releases.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 68839,4 Eur

Project Coordinator

Staatliche Regelschule “Georg Kresse” Zeulenroda-Triebes & Country: DE

Project Partners

• GO! Koninklijk Atheneum MXM
• Frejlev Skole
• Szkola Podstawowa im. Marii Konopnickiej w Opatowie