Inspiring Schools – Aspiring Students Erasmus Project

Project Title

Inspiring Schools – Aspiring Students

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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Project Summary

This project was founded on the belief that the school should encourage students’ holistic development and that it should go beyond subject boundaries and school curriculum. Our aim was to provide students with a range of inspiring activities which developed children’s responsibility, active citizenship, sense of initiative, awareness of social issues, both local and global. We formed a team of 6 primary schools from Poland, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Turkey, Italy and Spain and more than 300 teachers and 5000 students who participated in a full range of social, cultural, artistic and sporting activities that established a sense of self-belief and the confidence to set aspirational goals. The schools started or reformulated school parliaments and their schedules, charity events obtained a modern and effective forms (Sport Relief event, Penny Fairs), students’ creative writing was collected into the book “A Day in My School Life”, students created work of arts inspired by a national artist (“How to be Van Gogh”), searched the past and engaged their grandparents to play “Good Old Games”, the schools found inspiration and extended their offer of cultural and educational activities by introducing other partners’ ideas taken from our “The Highlights of the Month” online magazine where we shared school events; students learned management skills and organized a school trip “Inspirational Travels”, they also organized a protest event against food waste on World Food Day, and exhibited their photos of Same and Different project- during the short term pupils exchanges students used the idea of participating photography and took photos of the place through the eyes of local people and looked for similarities and photographed them.
Active membership in a school parliament gave students better understanding of democracy, a sense of responsibility and influence on bigger community; supporting a charity foundation developed their generosity of spirit and compassion; the artistic projects built students’ appreciation of European culture and arts; organizing a school trip improved their management skills and increased team spirit. All the project activities were carefully selected to make the most of rich diveristy of participating countries. By exchanging the outputs of the project students got a big insight into everyday lives of the Europeans, their values, culture and traditions. 51 students crossed the borders and personally experienced the reality of their European peers while visiting their homes and schools, they also exchanging traditional letters.
Cooperating with other European schools was a valuable experience of working in the intercultural and multilingual environment and motivated students for the high quality performance. Both students and parents have expressed their interest in the next Erasmus project and look forward to participating in creating a new project.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 121764 Eur

Project Coordinator

Szkola Podstawowa nr 19 im. Mieszka I w Bialymstoku & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Periferiako Demotiko Sxoleio Peristeronas
• CEIP 19 DE ABRIL
• Kumport Ortaokulu
• ,,Ivan Sergeevch Turgenev”Primary school
• ISTITUTO COMPRENSIVO STATALE