Life is a road! Let’s draw it together! Erasmus Project

Project Title

Life is a road! Let’s draw it together!

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: Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage; Inclusion – equity; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

Partners from 5 European countries, set off,on a journey of their regions in search of links between their historical heritage and all the area’s natural and cultural aspects as well as the changes they have undergone over the centuries. Thus,we chose a two years project,divided in 5 stages:Breaking the ice-Setting the keystone of the Road,To know us better- We are the Road,Investigating the past-Retracing the Road,Facing the present-Stepping on the Road,Dreaming of future-Drawing the Road.The implementation of the project includes important axes,such as cultural heritage,environmental awareness,education,entertainment, job market.Using modern educational tools,students got to know and appreciate not only their own culture,but also their partners’.We are inspired by the European Year of Cultural Heritage (EYCH 2018) and we want to awaken young people in its forms: tangible,intangible,natural,digital.Objectives:
-improve the schools’ approaches and teaching methods in 8 key competences education
-increase children’s motivation for learning by using technology regularly to research
-improve teachers’ skills in providing the appropriate,individualized education for children of different learning abilities
-achieve better learning outcomes for all pupils in a long-term perspective
-to promote intercultural competencies and knowledge
Five countries:Greece (coordinator),France,Spain,Poland and Italy,from diverse natural surroundings with different languages,involved in the project idea.Greek,Martinican,Canarian and Italian schools were newcomers,but confident enough in the partners’s expertise and solidarity.
We designed the activities to smooth differences,to motivate teachers and students,to lead to targets and to our final products and to meet the objectives of the project by moving on a time scale and cover the specificities of each country. We divided them in Before-During the meetings and in preliminary-project’s development-final activities,pointing to research,present,create,entertain.They inspired us all to develop creative imagination and cultivate inherent or acquired skills. For each one,we designed the appropriate indoor and outdoor workshops that will give visible and measurable results.
The schools worked in parallel applying new approaches to improve basic skills.In each of the stages,students as researchers,analysts,examiners,presenters,evaluators took part in experiential learning activities-workshops featuring roles,taking part in quizzes,using ICT tools and having fun in cultural events
Qualitative results:improving pupils abilities to apply knowledge to practice,enhancing their key and social competences and emotional maturity,broadening knowledge about the European regions,developing life and transversal skills,enhancing teachers’ professional development
Quantitative: Travel guide “Teens to teens”,“4 Seasons in 5 regions’’ digital intercultural calendar,recipe book,Mobile Application,brochures/posters to advertise each city,videos,project website,Twinspace,Facebook page
AS we expect the project had impact on pupils,teachers,parents and stakeholders at local/regional/national/transnational level. All the partner schools offered the pupils a higher level of education based on European cooperation and training experience. All the activities and their results were constantly communicated to the local press,respective stakeholders and parents
Pupils took responsibility for their “roads”; they were better achievers at further levels of education; early-school leaving risk was decreased; the quality of education system was improved; the Travel Guide and the App are tools available for teachers and for a wider community and they can be a useful instrument for the promotion of tourism in our areas.
All participants developed personal (self confidence,empathy,tolerance,understanding), communication,digital and organizational skills and competences,gained experience in using English and developed or improved Interpersonal skills like positive attitude,team player,flexibility and time management
The project seemed attractive to other staff members,they seized the opportunities to teach differently and realized how the European projects can help them along the way to take advantage of them and that actions in Europe are a fundamental element to obtain high quality results within the educational community
To conclude,we believe that the change in students’ individual lifestyles such as becoming responsible citizens and promoting similar behaviour in their families and communities had an impact on both local and national environments,in both short and long-term.
Our students saw that when we step out of the classroom,a “life road” to the world is waiting.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 162197 Eur

Project Coordinator

GYMNASIO ARETHOUSAS & Country: EL

Project Partners

• IC CARMAGNOLA I
• IES DOMINGO PEREZ MINIK
• Szkola Podstawowa nr 8 im. Wojciecha Korfantego w Mikolowie
• Collège Eugène MONA