National languages ​​as the way to know each other Erasmus Project

Project Title

National languages ​​as the way to know each other

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: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Regional dimension and cooperation

Project Summary

The project was created as an effort to deepen cooperation between three schools in the Czech Republic, Italy and Portugal, which we started to develop in 2018-2020 on the topic of common past and present values. In an effort to further deepen this cooperation, we have now decided to focus attention on national languages and their context in folk literature and local traditions. We also gave the opportunity to participate in the project to a school from Greece, which has no experience in implementation. Project name: National languages as a way to mutual cognition fully describe the content of cooperation and we also believe that they will further deepen mutual understanding of cultural values, traditions of individual countries and creation of belonging to common values of European culture. The aim of the project is to teach all participants basic communication skills in the language of the partner school, then to develop communication in English and to give teachers the opportunity to share examples of good practice during visits to the partner schools. The means to achieve this goal are the creation of a multilingual dictionary, the implementation of intensive national language courses in partnership meetings, the creation of a common anthem of the project, mutual cooperation between pupils, knowledge of folk literature and folklore traditions, sharing experiences among teachers. In addition to the activities of the project, four partnership meetings are planned at the place of each participating school. Each of these meetings is attended by 2 teachers and 6 pupils from each school. All results of our work will be published on the project website and in the local press. We also organize public events during our meetings. The implemented project will also motivate pupils to improve their knowledge and skills. Teachers will benefit from their further professional development. This will further deepen the partnership between schools and may be an opportunity to kick-start national language teaching at partner schools, for example in the form of a voluntary club. We believe that knowing the basics of the partners’ language is one of the basic means of knowing each other’s cultures and also leads to a stronger partnership between schools. The implementation of the whole project will be managed by the coordinator. Other schools will ensure the implementation of partial steps, targets and final evaluation. We firmly believe that our project and developing partnerships between schools will lead to developing positive attitudes towards the values on which the European Union is built. The basic motto of our project is the search for united values and elements in the diversity of European languages.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 107520 Eur

Project Coordinator

Základní skola a Materská skola Aloise Stepánka, Dolany & Country: CZ

Project Partners

• Agrupamento de Escolas D. João I
• 2 GYMNASIO KERATSINIOU
• ISTITUTO COMPRENSIVO DE AMICIS-DA VINCI CASERTA