Methods, learning, skills and success Erasmus Project

Project Title

Methods, learning, skills and success

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 Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Inclusion – equity; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

The theme of our project agrees with the European Union’s priorities. Three secondary schools from Hungary, France and Romania have decided to gather together in order to build a European project. Our project is called “Methods, learning, skills and success” and will fight against school dropout and issues met by students from disadvantaged backgrounds. We have found out that our students come to secondary school with less knowledge than before. We therefore intended to solve this situation with intercultural exchanges and with a pedagogical teaching programme. Using a multidisciplinary approach has enabled to decompartmentalise knowledge but also increased students’ skills. About a hundred students from our secondary schools (aged 14 to 18) took an active part in the project and was supervised by a pedagogical and administrative staff. The majority of them were from disadvantaged backgrounds and/or with school difficulties. Thus, the aim of the project was to measure the evolution of these students in order to evaluate the impact of the methods used on their success at school. With a pedagogical and innovative approach, students was led to think about inequalities and discriminations but also about what it means to be a committed European citizen.
In order to achieve this goal, the students worked on school’s inequalities and discrimination. They all studied the same novel : “Chagrin d’école” by Daniel Pennac. All their works has been posted online on a website with a forum where students from the partnership could exchange ideas. Communication and intercultural exchanges were put to the fore thanks to ICT. On the second year, each group of students created a file and short movies about discrimination, shared their works online and presented them during the mobility to Romania. The evaluation has been made through games. The third year’s task was to create a plea that they were supposed to present at a plea competition in France. The project’s working method was the multiple intelligences, so the pleas took different forms : written production, movies, dance, exhibition, … Productions has been evaluated and uploaded. Students’mobilities were aiming at contributing to academic success through the presentations of oral productions with a European and intercultural dimension. Moreover, the purpose of the transnational meetings between members of the partnership was to follow the evolution of the project as well as drawing up assessment charts with specific criteria. We also wrote reports which are available to the public both at European and international level. We measured the progress of students who will have been part of the project : results at the final exams, motivation of the participants, degree of open-mindedness to culture, progress in languages. We could notice that the quality of teaching and the influence of schools in their environment were valued thanks to our open-mindedness, innovative pedagogy and ability to make students go abroad.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 68955,4 Eur

Project Coordinator

Pápai Református Kollégium Gimnáziuma, Müvészeti Szakgimnáziuma és Diákotthona & Country: HU

Project Partners

• Lycée polyvalent Guy Môquet-Etienne Lenoir
• Liceul Teoretic Nagy Mozes