Ludanta Kune Erasmus Project

Project Title

Ludanta Kune

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: Pedagogy and didactics; Access for disadvantaged; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

Ludanta Kune (Playing Together in Esperanto) is an all inclusive, pluricultural proposal to work on the development of the physical and social skills of our students, to help them become empathetical, included and socially skilled European citizens. 6 schools, from 3 different countries will participate. In each country, there will be a “main stream” school (with special needs children) and a “special needs” school (or a priority school for special needs) working together as a team to research, choose and practice inclusive playground activities that will shown to the European partners in the mobilities. The project is grounded in another finishing project (“All together, all the same”, KA229-050758), focused on the inclusion through art. The effects of this project were so positive that we realised a continuation was needed, this time using playground activities as tool for inclusion
The project has two “lines of action”: the first one developed by the teams of students and teachers in each participating country, who will be working “shoulder to shoulder” making a proposal of games to share with the European peers in the mobilities. Through this process, the students (from the special schooling and the mainstream schooling) will get to know and empathize with each other, learning that we are equal in having fun and -thus- giving a boost to inclusion and intersocial skills. The second “line of action” will be during the mobilities, when the children will be empowered by overcoming the challenge of travelling abroad, presenting their schools and games to the partners, developing their plurilinguistic and communicative skills with european peers. The mobilities will also help in the teachers teambuilding and their use of basic English with a purpose. Everyone will also grow pluricultural skills by learning from the others, creating a sense of Europe.
The goals to achieve are:
-Increase real inclusion by having all the children into common activities that are motivating and meant to create community
-Work on all the children’s empathy and social skills, key for the future of every child to become a socially settled adult
-Work on basic physical and general skills in a fun way
-Empower children and staff by exposing them to challenging experiences in controlled context
-Enlarge the feeling of European citizens and enrich the cultural knowledge of children and staff by sharing other member’s cultural heritage
-Explore together the multicultural international essence of Europe, embracing the contributions of inmigrants and refugees
-Bring the extended community (mainly the elderly…) on board in a common project that helps us all
-Engage the teachers in working together in pluricultural European team and train rookie schools in Ka229
-Work, through games, about the Rights of the children and the Sustainable Development Goals
Schools from 3 countries (Belgium, Portugal, Spain)participate. The two belgian schools (special and regular school) and one of the spanish have participated in the abovementioned Ka2 project (050758), so teamwork is proven great. The spanish newcomer is a special school, rookie in European projects. The portuguese ones are schools from aroundl Lisbon with background in inclusion and Erasmus + (but not Ka2)
The activities to fulfill the goals will be:
-6 mobilities, the first one, a Teachers Training mobility (to learn together about playground inclusive games and bind us all with a common purpose and methodologies). This will be the starting point
– For each of 5 mobilities with children, the country teams will choose three playground games to present to European peers, namely: one which requires objects (that can remain in the playground); one that doesn’t require special objects; one that involves simple singing or choreography.
– In each of the 5 mobilities, there will be a change to encourage research from the teams: C2 will be regular games; C3, games based on cultural heritage (involving the elderly); C4, games inspired from non-European students in the schools (inmigrants, refugees, thus bringing them in);C5, games inspired in the Children’s Rights; C6, games inspired in the SDG goals
-In between the mobilities, the schools will implement the learned games, to extend the results to the community
-We will emphasize the active role of students
We expect:
-A set of multicultural inclusive games to be used. These activities will be available in eTwinning for all interested teachers.
-An improvement on children’s and teachers’ selfconfidence and a sense of being one team (regardles special needs, social differences or language)
– More schools joining Ka2 projects
Assessment will be done using PDCA (plan–do–check–adjust) throughout the project. Teachers meeting, children impressions and children’s change of behavior will be tools to assess.
We expect the project will help the students become more inclusive and pluricultural naturally. We also expect this outcomes to be sustainable

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 126399 Eur

Project Coordinator

CEIP Arcipreste de Hita & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Agrupamento de Escolas Pedro Jacques de Magalhães
• GO! School voor Buitengewoon Secundair Onderwijs t Vurstjen
• CEE NUESTRA SEÑORA DE LA ESPERANZA
• Escola Secundária de Gago Coutinho
• GO! basisschool De Driesprong Maldegem