Keep In Touch, Europe! Erasmus Project

Project Title

Keep In Touch, Europe!

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: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Creativity and culture; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education

Project Summary

KITE (Keep in touch, Europe!) was not only the project’s name, but also the programme. It was about communication, virtual reality, life 2.0 and education, about designing and improving an electronic learning environment and learning materials to support students’ learning independently from cultural backgrounds, learning styles and age. It explored and compared the use of modern technologies in the participating institutions aiming to take them to a similar level of ability. These institutions were secondary schools from six European countries – in alphabetical order: Austria, France, Germany, Greece, Italy and Slovakia. Their aim was to develop ways of how modern technologies could be used in a positive way in education and private life, as well as to minimize prejudices and to enhance tolerance between students and teachers within European countries (though the project partners’ origin reaches far beyond the European continent, as the French partner is situated in the oversea departement of La Reunion) While conducting this project, we developed basic skills, such as entrepreneurship and digital skills which the students need to interact in their school life and in their future jobs. Within the scope of “virtual abilities”, we used ICTs with our students as the main way of working and communicating. In this interaction, we also tried to improve the participants´ communication abilities and awareness of European cooperation. We implemented internet conferences, cloud computing, blogs, eTwinning, and created a homepage on which everybody could follow our activities. We helped the students to gain proper social media usage strategies. They no longer used the media just for entertainment reasons. We searched for ways to increase the benefits and reduce the harm that media can have on teenagers because we wanted to bring the real world into our teaching. They joined group work activities with their partners across Europe through tasks like contributing to a blog, designing websites, uploading video presentations, and creating Facebook pages and doing internet conferences throughout the project. The use of mobile phones in lessons (for example in language lessons for looking up the new words in dictionaries and also in other lessons for looking up facts and figures)IT-based lessons or units was passed on from one to the other partners (and vice versa) to be tried out there and commented on by students and teachers in order to create a collection of such units, which were artistic, language based or science based. There were also workshops for students and teachers at the partner institutions during the transnational meetings (e.g. developing new lessons). Additionally, students of participating institutions tried to develop and programme an application for mobile phones within this project. They also designed and maintained the project’s website.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 150577,08 Eur

Project Coordinator

BHAK Eisenerz & Country: AT

Project Partners

• Stredna odborna skola elektrotechnicka, Sibirska 1, Trnava
• LICEO STATALE “G. MARCONI”
• Lycée Louis Payen
• Berufskolleg Königstrasse der Stadt Gelsenkirchen
• Peiramatiko Gymnasio Rethymnon Panepistimiou Kritis
• NMS PR Trofaiach