Motivation by Innovation Erasmus Project

Project Title

Motivation by Innovation

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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

We were a group of schools who decided to come together to have the opportunity of learning with and from each other through exchanging/sharing of best practices, experiences, insights and ideas in order to achieve the same goals: provide students with basic and transversal skills, prevent early school leaving and offer students a high quality education. Each partner felt the need for improvements at the level of innovative pedagogical practices in education. Because of that, we discussed and researched which innovative pedagogical practices and digital tools we would like to implement in our teaching practices in order to create a 21st century creative, innovative and motivating classroom, using an ICT active learning student-centered approach. The team consisted of five European schools:Gug skole (Denmark), Agrupamento de Escolas Professor Paula Nogueira (Portugal), Cirkevna spojena skola (Slovakia),ODTU GELISTIRME VAKFI OZEL ORTAOKULU (Turkey) and Publiczne Gimnazjum nr 11 im. Bolesława Prusa (Poland).The main-activities were two transnational meetings in Portugal November 2016 where the content was based on: presenting the long-term workplan – deciding on the assessment, dissemination and quality plans and which tools to be used – establishing a framework for budget control – organising the learning/teaching/training activities – discussing arrangements regarding students’ exchanges and a transnational meeting in Denmark June 2019 where the focus was on assessment of the activities developed during the three years and their impact – development of the Sustainability plan – final conclusions and reflections We had planned 5 learning/teaching/training activities, one on each partner school. In short, the learning/teaching/training activities hadthe purpose of themed workshops for students and teachers, but they also provided an opportunity to: – share experiences, challenges and knowledge; – get knowledge about each country’s educational system; – introduce local culture and traditions. Each hosting school was being responsible for elaborating an agenda, which was then sent to all the partners, to allow them to make the suggestions they feel necessary. After each activity, one of the partner schools would be in charge of producing a newsletter containing reports on the workshops, results of questionnaires/surveys and other topics – all put on to our website for the project.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 129394 Eur

Project Coordinator

AALBORG KOMMUNE & Country: DK

Project Partners

• Cirkevna spojena skola
• Publiczne Gimnazjum nr 11 im. Boleslawa Prusa w Radomiu
• ODTU GELISTIRME VAKFI OZEL ORTAOKULU
• Agrupamento de Escolas Professor Paula Nogueira