International Skills Put into Practice Erasmus Project

Project Title

International Skills Put into Practice

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: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

This is a follow-up to the ISITPGC project that we did in cooperation with the University of Hull. The outputs of this project were a framework of Global Competences, a survey tool and a training programme for Global Citizens. These materials were made to prepare students for studying, working and living abroad in the future.
What we intend to do in this project is to add a practical dimension. This will be done in a number of ways.
1. Students will reflect on their own cultural heritage and will devise a Cultural Heritage Trail (app) in their environment to be used by visiting students and teachers. We do this because we feel that knowing about their own cultural heritage will make people think about this when they are confronted with a different cultural heritage. The International Skill they need here is: look at differences as ‘just differences’ without making judgements.
2. Furthermore 25 students per school will be offered the opportunity to test and improve their international skills by either attending lessons in one of the partner schools, or a university in the area of the partner school or gaining work experience in a company abroad. The students and teachers will be accommodated in host families if possible. This will provide all parties (guests as well as hosts) with a real intercultural experience.
3. At least 5 teachers per school will expand their international skills by going abroad to do work experience in these schools, and where possible, teach their mother tongue to students abroad. When the students from other schools visit the teachers in the host school will teach a short course in their mother tongue to the guests before they go and sit in with lessons or do their work experience.
4. The students (and teachers involved) will set themselves a challenge for this experience on the basis of what they have learned while working on the Global Competences Training Programme. They will have to prove that they have met the challenge by providing a vlog to be shared on the partnership YouTube Channel.
5. The teachers will share their experiences within their own schools, but also within the project partner schools and their networks.
The impact will be a constant update and dissemination of the Global Competences Training Programme as well as an addition to it in the form of a set of real-life challenges that students can meet as well as opportunities for putting the skills they have acquired into practice.
In the long term, the partner schools will strengthen their relations and will create further opportunities for teachers and students to cooperate across borders and continue using the training programme as part of their (extra) curricular activities, hopefully without having to apply for EU funding.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 179913 Eur

Project Coordinator

Sophianum Sg, & Country: NL

Project Partners

• Kopernikusschule Freigericht
• Liceo Scientifico Statale “C. De Giorgi”
• Widukind-Gymnasium Enger
• The Ridgeway School and Sixth Form College
• Instituto de Educación Secundaria Pedro Cerrada