Monsters in Danger of Extinction Erasmus Project

Project Title

Monsters in Danger of Extinction

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: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; Teaching and learning of foreign languages

Project Summary

Monsters in Danger of Extinction project (M.I.D.E.) departs from a previous partnership between two eTwinning schools: IES Unamuno BHI (Bilbao / Spain) and Ekpaidetyria Panou (Nafpaktos / Greece) that deal mainly with a pedagogical context of multilingualism, respect for diversity and inclusion. The project will run for two school-years (2020-22) involving four short-term exchanges for pupils.

The motivation to apply for this project is to promote the exchange of co-operative work experiences between two school communities located in different European regions, but which share the same cultural heritage deriving from the ancient world.

The subject of the project focuses on the imaginary beings in classical mythology manifested specially in arts and literature. This fact provides an opportunity to take profit of the shared cultural richness in each country to develop basic skills, gender equality and social inclusion counting with the collaboration of some external organizations: museums, cultural associations and public institutions.

Number and profile of participants of each school per year:
Target students: 48 upper secondary pupils, aged 15-17, who learn Classics.
Non-target students: 144 fellow classmates of target students, who don’t learn Classics.
Target teachers: 16 CLIL teachers.
Non-target teachers: 48 teachers of non-target students.
192 target family members.
25 non-teaching workers.
1120 people who will indirectly benefit from the activities organised by the project.

Objectives:
To a different degree, every member of each school community will:
-Discover the symbolism of the classical imaginary beings in arts, literature and the Western thought, departing from the heritage of each country.
-Develop basic skills and key competences through an international and cross-curricular project.
-Improve communication skills in modern and classical languages.
-Upgrade digital skills concerning “Cooperation/Communication” & “Digital content creation.”
-Accept the cultural, physical and gender diversity of others.
-Improve multilingual and multicultural skills.

Main activities:
-Every school year, the international student target groups should generate tangible results.
-Twice every school year, during mobilities, students will conduct workshop activities in favour of diversity and social inclusion.
-Twice every school year, the entire school community shall interact with foreign students and teachers through face-to-face real-life communication.

Methodology:
-CLIL teaching learning approach.
-Cross-curricular teaching.
-Cooperative work between international student groups and between international target teachers via eTwinning.
-ICT supporting CLIL.
-Use of e-ELP.
-Educational intervention in favour of diversity and social inclusion.

Expected results
-Intangible and structural results:
School members discover the imaginary beings of the classical mythology and its influence in Arts, Literature and in the Western thought.
Target students improve key competences related to classics; English and modern languages; literature and computing.
School members develop basic skills via international co-operative work.
Teachers improve teaching strategies related to the new educational methodologies and the eTwinning program.
Target students improve English linguistic competences (B2 level) and modern & classical languages (A2 level).
Teachers improve strategies on teaching subjects through English.
School members improve linguistic skills in European languages by interacting with foreign partners.
School members upgrade digital skills on “Co-operation/Communication” & “Digital content creation.”
School members accept cultural, physical and gender diversity.
School members estimate the advantages of multilingualism and multiculturalism.
-Tangible results: the “Classical Bestiary”, the “Female Monster Museum”, the “Dr. Van Helsing guide”, the “Monster Escape Room” and the “Monster Gallery of El Quijote.”

Impact
School members develop basic, digital and language skills discovering the classical monsters and its symbolism.
School members increase their participation in the school agenda for diversity and inclusion.
Target students improve their marks in modern and classical languages, literature and computing.
Target students and teachers get external language certifications.
Teachers improve teaching strategies.
Partner schools become educational pioneering centres.

The potential longer term benefits
To use, develop, and disseminate most M.I.D.E. activities, methodology, and outputs after the end of the founding, by means of ensuring the continuity of project teachers teamwork and the cooperation between the schools via eTwinning and with the external organisations.

The use of eTwinning plays an essential role in all the steps of this project, due to the possibilities the platform offers to plan, implement, disseminate and make a strategic partnership Erasmus+ KA2 sustainable.

Project Website

https://sites.google.com/view/monstersindangerofextinction/p%C3%A1gina-principal

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 63584 Eur

Project Coordinator

IES MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO BILBAO & Country: ES

Project Partners

• EKPAIDEYTIRIA DYTIKIS ELLADOS SINGLE MEMBER P.C.