Measure me up! Erasmus Project

Project Title

Measure me up!

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: Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Overcoming skills mismatches (basic/transversal)

Project Summary

In the near future professionals with a high profile on science, technology, engineering and mathematics will experiment a high demand in a European context. While there is a technological revolution out there, the current methodologies for teaching those subjects seem disconnected to reality and obsolete.
The result is an increasing number of students feeling disengaged in the study of those subjects and a constant decrease on their choice when they reach higher education. This need has been reflected in this call by the EU commission, including the acquisition of STE(A)M skills as a horizontal priority, within the acquisition and development of key competencies.
Measure me up! Is a two-year long cross-curricular project that grew out of the partnership of six countries (Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Turkey and Spain).
This project includes both experienced and inexperienced Erasmus schools. We expect to benefit from one another and share the expertise every school has in a specific field of STE(A)M:
– The Spanish institution is located in a city with an important historical center with Romanesque and Renaissance buildings. The study of its architecture and its mathematical logic will be one of the activities to be carried out. Additionally, the building occupies what was the former university of the city, and has an important archive and a museum of natural sciences with equipment from past centuries that will be part of the project.
– Croatian partner has an ongoing international project launching the growing of medicinal herbs for cosmetics and they plan to integrate their knowledge through a cosmetics workshop. The school also cooperates with the Center for Technical Culture, which offers numerous workshops in the STEM area.
– Romanian partner has an Astronomy Club, where students and teachers discuss about Space topics, as well as previous experience in KA229 projects.
– Turkish partner contributes with their knowledge about coding and robotics and their contacts with the local universities. They have also a wide experience organising and participating in numerous international contests, as well as in many eTwinning projects.
– Like the Turkish, the Hungarian partner is experienced on eTwinning projects, and they have a successful team representing them at the at the world competition in robotics. Apart from this, they celebrate digital weeks on a regular annual basis, including all the age groups.
– Serbian partner excels in mathematics and they are being trained in micro:bit langauge. They have great experience with eTwinning projects and have an eTwinning school label.

Our aim within this project is contributing to reduce the mismatch of the skills provided to our students and the skills actually requested including real world applications, by working in a new approach based on inquiry and ICT enriched learning, as well as collaborative practices.
The main objectives of the project are to increase the motivation of students towards scientific paths, and also improving key competences as a whole.
To achieve it, we are going to work in activities that involve physical mobility combined with virtual exchanges through eTwinning.
The activities will focus in the use of measurements through history, and they will lead to numerous outcomes: dissemination of the collected information through an international catalogue, the creation of a video game by students, video tutorials about constructing measuring tools, among others.
In total, there will be seven mobilities, six of them including student exchange. Each mobility will include 25 students and 10 teachers, so 210 people from the six countries will participate directly on the consecution of it.
Our cooperation will also enhance a more comprehensive European awareness, the desire to travel more, meet people, learn a foreign language, change perspectives, become proud of what we are and give value to what. We believe that with this project we will lay the foundations for future cooperation and establish a permanent network of international work, which we hope will expand to new partners in the coming years.

Project Website

https://measuremeup.wordpress.com

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 191220 Eur

Project Coordinator

IES Santísima Trinidad & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Özel Marmaris Çağdaş Bilim Anadolu ve Fen Lisesi
• Osnovna skola Sveti Sava Kikinda
• Colegiul National “Octavian Goga”
• Os Vladimira Becica Osijek
• Nikola Tesla Szerb Tanítási Nyelvu Óvoda, Általános Iskola, Gimnázium, Kollégium és Könyvtár