“Living apart, learning together: We Europeans 2.0”. Erasmus Project

Project Title

“Living apart, learning together: We Europeans 2.0”.

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Disabilities – special needs; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

“Living apart, learning together: We Europeans 2.0”.
The title of the project is “ Living apart, learning together : We Europeans 2.0”, whose main aim is to work on the development of tolerance, learning about other cultures, knowing and respecting differences and looking for similarities of the life styles in partner countries. This with a worldly look in a digital and international environment.
Six primary schools from 6 different countries, the Netherlands, Lithuania, Spain, Portugal, Greece and Italy are working together in this project.

It will be a good opportunity for our children to establish links with pupils of the same age in other schools at European level and work together on topics of interest, in a digital and international environment. The main themes of the project are: Let’s introduce ourselves; My skool; My home town, my region; My country, part of the European home (national customs and traditions).
With using tools “‘Social media and the use of it” and “Basic digital skills and to create a learning environment”.

Communication using (social) media is an important part of the project. Means of communication will include on line (news-)-papers, facebook, Instagram, twitter, skype etc.
All participating teachers and students use these forms of communication, either individually or collectively within groups. Our students live in a world inundated with various forms of online communication technologies. The aim of the partner schools is to teach both students and teachers use basic digital skills and to create a learning environment that encourages students to explore social media safely and responsibly.
The participating schools learn to use social media in a safe internet way and in an educational setting, thus improving their ability to connect with “European 21st century students “.
Within the scope of this project we focus on our students talents, both academically and otherwise.

Each partnerschool has chosen a talenttopic in which their students excel (i.e. sports, creative writing, music, dance, coding and storyboarding etc.).
The six participating schools each host a meeting where students showcase their talents, hereby inspiring the partner schools. Visiting students report to their peers using a variety of social media, while teachers study ways to use these social media in their own teaching. Workshops for both students and teachers improve their digital skills.
The visiting groups of students and teachers will return home to share their newly acquired skills and the schools start working on the talent as showcased by the host school.
The results will be shared, again using social media.The effective use of social media in the schools will increase because of the improved skills of both students and teachers, and because of the teachers’ improved ability to use new technology in their teaching.
The focus on a variety of talents, both academic and creative, will have a long term effect on the confidence and selfconfidence of the students, contributing a more positive attitude towards learning, where motivation, autonomy and self-efficacy play an important role.

Other focus areas are: Promoting the professional development of staff and teachers in ICT methodologies; Working on the revising and strengthening of the professional profile of the teaching professions; Discussion about new technologies and digital competences; Set up new innovative curricula/educational methods; Development of training courses; Teaching and learning of foreign languages; To have students who like to learn, with a worldly look in a digital and international environment and “To contribute to a shared understanding of being a European citizen.”

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 197990 Eur

Project Coordinator

Lavoor Morelberg & Country: NL

Project Partners

• Istituto Comprensivo Via Emilio Macro
• 6th Primary School of Geraka
• Anyksciai Antanas Vienuolis Progymnasium
• Agrupamento de Escolas Henriques Nogueira
• CEIP Nº4