Let Me Show You Around. Erasmus Project

Project Title

Let Me Show You Around.

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: Enterprise, industry and SMEs (incl. entrepreneurship); Social/environmental responsibility of educational institutions; Teaching and learning of foreign languages

Project Summary

“Let me show you around” is a project focusing on cooperation for exchange of good practices between 5 schools in the European Union: Mazsalaca secondary school in Latvia as the coordinator with partners: Rakvere Eragümnaasium in Estonia, Geniko Lykeio Volou in Greece, Istituto Tecnico Commerciale “Vitale Giordano” in Italy and Escola Básica e Secundária de Canelas in Portugal.
Learning Teaching and Training activities involve 116 participants: secondary school students aged 15-19 and their teachers. However, more people are involved in the cross-curricular activities of the project over the course of two years. It is expected that about 400 students and 50 teachers will participate.
The prime objective of the project is to develop participants’ knowledge and skills in entrepreneurship, how it can be combined with tourism and what effects it leaves on the environment. It will be done through exchanging ideas with their peers on the issues, possible solutions and opportunities. Exchanging data will lead to mutual understanding of diversity issues within the EU. The aim is to overcome unfortunate stereotypes, develop tolerance towards foreign ideas, cultures, become more responsible towards social issues.
There will be a physical mobility for teachers where the Portuguese school that has an eTwinning label will share their experience and knowledge in practical training sessions about eTwinning and other useful ICT tools. In five short term student exchanges participants will explore such themes as local entrepreneurship, tourism offers, environmental issues, what a school and students can do to help. Each partner school has their expertise theme or main responsibility. To make the impact greater and provide continuity of learning, a variety of activities will be scheduled throughout the whole project both locally and virtually. They involve exploring and researching the themes, identifying one’s own best practices and developing ways of peer-learning to share. The participants will bring back new knowledge, skills and experience from the meetings at their partner schools and will apply the new ideas in practice by organizing workshops, events and looking for new ways to bring benefit to their communities. The results of each meeting will be disseminated as such in partnerschools and media, and for the entire project, all meetings, combined.
As the result, the participants will become more responsible citizens in terms of environmental, social and intercultural issues. The project will also provide a chance for staff to develop and apply their foreign language, ICT and intercultural skills.
It is expected that in a long term the participants will be more open and tolerant to different cultures, social backgrounds. That they will have the knowledge to start their own business or enough skills to organise or help in charities or environmental campaigns. By being more responsible citizens they are expected to be responsible first for their own actions and look at the environment and nature in a long term.
In the long term, the project will help the participants become familiar with and use eTwinning platform for future collaboration and projects. Schools will have added to their EU dimension, providing varied studies with transnational mobilities; the staff will have developed professionally both on the themes, methodology, implementation of an Erasmus+ project and diversity in educational processes in EU. This will benefit the partner schools in a long term as it will increase their professional capacity.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 145715 Eur

Project Coordinator

Mazsalacas vidusskola & Country: LV

Project Partners

• Rakvere Eragümnaasium
• Escola Básica e Secundária de Canelas
• Istituto Tecnico Commerciale “Vitale Giordano”
• 4o GENIKO LYKEIO VOLOU