„Learning through Cooperation, Collaboration and Innovation“ Erasmus Project

Project Title

„Learning through Cooperation, Collaboration and Innovation“

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

The project „Learning through Cooperation , Collaboration and Innovation“ is a two-year-project in which will take part six schools coming from six countries- Bulgaria, Portugal, Romania, Sweden,Spain and Greece.
The project will involve directly more than 300 students, aged 14-19, and about 60 teachers, working in different educational spheres,such as Maths, History, Literature, Geography, Languages, ICT, Philosophy.
Indirectly more than 4000 students and staff will get engaged in the organization and implementation of the project activities.
The project aims at contributing to the internationalization of the education offered by the project schools through the creation of a common
database of innovative, student-centered, curricula-based educational resources, which can be used not only by the project countries but trans-nationally, once they are uploaded in e-twinning, Office 365, the website of the project, YouTube. Facebook, etc. The use of the same lesson units and tests, questionnaires and other evaluative materials, aims at leveling the educational standards of the partner schools and thus at more easily recognizable skills and qualifications within and across national borders.

The project foresees seven LTTAs -one short-term joint staff training event and six short-term exchanges of groups of pupils
15 teachers will get the chance to participate in a LTTA on IT in which they will exchange experience and get acquainted with the creation of virtual and flipped classrooms, They will also learn how to create simple audio, video and text lessons,record their virtual classroom sessions, give playback access to their students learn how to create tests and quizzes through Kahoot;
The main topics to be addressed during the six Short-term exchanges of groups of pupils will be related to the history, religion, geography, cultural and oral heritage of the project countries as well as mathematics; team based learning; teens and the new technologies. Тo develop the themes, participants will take advantage of the unlimited possibilities offered by the Internet as a source of information. and through cooperating, collaborating and searching the net, they will use the developed materials to produce a variety of curricula –based OERs, such as flipped classes, audio-visual presentations ,infographics, quizzes, films, questionnaires, tests, which will make the learning material more visualized, attractive and comprehensible for students and thus it will also address the students with a low achievement in basic skills.
The students will collaborate and cooperate in transnational teams, working on student-centered, task-based activities allowing them to act as guides and lecturers, make films, present their products, discuss, summarize, analyze, which will lead to their increased capacity to work at international level, enhance their sense of initiative and entrepreneurship, make them more independent in their study, reinforce the cooperation and collaboration with the partners from the participant countries , make them more tolerant, help them overcome stereotypes, value and develop trust and friendship across the borders of Europe.
Teachers will have new resources prepared by an international collaboration, experiencing a professional growth and contributing to the development of their school.
The participants will get a great chance to acquaint with some natural wonders and UNESCO’s world Heritage sites of the partner countries, their historical, oral and cultural heritage which will: enrich their knowledge of History, Literature, Geography, Philosophy, Art; foster their inter cultural awareness; make them more open to the world; help them overcome cultural differences; help them communicate more easily across different borders and languages and act effectively in making a difference to our society
Since each participating institution has its own particularities, participants can learn a lot from each other and integrate what they have learned into practice: new teaching/learning methods, new ways of making students be creative and motivated for learning.

There are significant linguistic benefits for all participants since the collaborative work and the activities rely on intensive use of English.
The results of the project will have a strong European dimension because they are created through cooperation among students of different ages, nationalities, genders, and they reflect past-present but also future aspirations, representing a starting point in future collaborations and encouraging mobilities around Europe.
We expect this project to have a great impact on our schools and local communities. Its expected outputs have been devised to sustainable open access resources, which will remain accessible on the Internet, and which may be easily exploited by other schools and educational institutions all over the world

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 160370 Eur

Project Coordinator

ZEMEDELSKA PROFESIONALNA GIMNAZIA KLIMENT TIMIRYAZEV & Country: BG

Project Partners

• 32 GENIKO LYKEIO THESSSALONIKIS
• Liceul Teoretic “Traian Lalescu” Hunedoara
• IES Castillo de Luna
• Agrupamento de Escolas Miguel Torga
• Finnvedens Gymnasium