Lifelong Intercultural Learning Alliance for Change Erasmus Project

Project Title

Lifelong Intercultural Learning Alliance for Change

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 adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Inclusion – equity; Creativity and culture; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

PROJECT N ° 6 “LILAC, KA2 – COOPERATION AND INNOVATION FOR THE EXCHANGE OF GOOD PRACTICES, STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP FOR THE EDUCATION OF ADULTS, ERASMUS +”

Project name
number and prophile of the organization LILAC, KA2 – Cooperation and innovation for the exchange of good practices, Strategic partnership for adult education, Erasmus +.

Partners
The association “Udruga Mala Philozofija” (Croatia), asshociation, which works on philosophy and logics,
the association SES_SEBE_SPOLU (Czech Republic), which works on preparation and relationships between teachers and students
Eti Lisesi High School of Eskisehir (Turkey), high school specialized in Social Sciences
the SISAM association of Ravenna with a mosaic and fresco school, LILEC of the Faculty of Languages ​​of the University of Bologna, specialized in Didactics of Italian as Second Language, main partner school
CPIA Ravenna – Lugo, school with Italian as a Second Language courses and First level Education courses
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Reasons:
ESL and the disparities in learning outcomes are due to a number of reasons. An important factor is the low motivation of the students. Unmotivated students are often in a state of poverty, social discomfort and isolation. Often, they are immigrants with little knowledge of the laws, the culture, the habits of the country, where they emigrated. Different educational models and low literacy are common problems. Sometimes, students have a good level of literacy, but big difficulties in L2. In many cases they need to keep up with homework and lessons because they do not attend classes regularly. A typical situation is the need for them to go periodically and return to their homeland. All these factors influence the learning process. We are focused on overcoming these difficulties. As the research points out, young people who leave school early will have less job opportunities, or face socio-economic disadvantage, along with other difficulties
Aims
Shared objectives among the partners are:
– reduce disparities in learning and ESL results
– promote integration, tolerance and active citizenship
– support students in the process of “learning to learn”
– the autonomy of adoptive students, personal initiative, motivation to learn
– improve students’ basic and transversal skills
– improve teachers’ skills and competences
– improve the language skills of students, in particular, of English, and writing skills or Italian as second language
promote to ESL students the Cultural Heritage knowledge of the Partners’ countries
– – research into new teaching methods and creative approach
Helping with students to use new technology Internet, computer programs, smartphone programs and so on

Planned activities

A first meeting, only for teachers, will plan and define the details of the project:
– the guidelines for planning and managing the project
– guidelines for the overall organization (for example, MICE, evaluation plan and student mobility plan)
– activities, shared objectives, methods, tools
– the exchange program with students and teachers
A final meeting will be dedicated to:
– evaluate the results
– define the dissemination plan
– define agreement for the sustainability of the project in the following two years
– present the projects to the interested parties, through a special event in Italy

Mobilizing students and teachers
Mobility will take place in Zadar, Prague, Bologna, Ravenna and Eskisehir.
Each mobility will be attended by two teachers with a variable number of students.
Describe of undertaken main activities
The mobility includes guided tours of the host city, educational workshops, intercultural workshops, cooking workshops, frescoes and mosaics. Project includes visits to location of the schools, visits to European commission department in Prague, visits to museums of high tech in Prague, museums of the history of photography in Bologna, lessons about motivation in schools and at universities, visits to Science museum in Turkey. and so on and so forth.
Each activity will be carried out in English, in order to deepen the second language.
A website of the European project has been created and a digital book will be created at the end of the project.
Financial resources required
Complete financing of the project by Erasmusplus.
Duration of the project
Start of the project 06/09/2016
End of the project 05/09/2018
Longer term benefits after the end of project will be connected with the creation of an International Survey, about the theme ESL, linked to questionaries, created by the Czech Partners. The Italian and the Turkish partners as European high schools will cooperate. We have the idea that in the Italian school, we could use foreign students as cultural mediators for the ESL interview
The results and impact attained
Due to the fact that our project is linked to ESL, most of all we have seen are results in a very good sharing of good practices. First, results concern the students, who have participated

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 65825 Eur

Project Coordinator

CPIA RAVENNA & Country: IT

Project Partners

• PANEPISTIMIO THESSALIAS
• Eskisehir Eti Sosyal Bilimler Lisesi
• SISAMRAVENNA
• SES,SEBE-SPOLU
• Udruga za poticanje neformalnog obrazovanja, kritickog misljenja i filozofije u praksi Mala filozofija
• ALMA MATER STUDIORUM – UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA