Neverland…make it real! Erasmus Project

Project Title

Neverland…make it real!

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Inclusion – equity; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

Project NE.M.I.R. (Neverland…make it real) aims at forming students to be better citizens while actively participating in creating “recommendations” to be shared. In “Neverland” they will take part in an ideal European Government while attending workshops, interviewing professionals, writing “recommendations”, dealing with the social and cultural issues of their countries and their partners’ countries in order to foster social equality and erease social and cultural discrimination. It acts as the means for language learning purposes. Indeed, while the group of all the third and fourth courses of our Institute, aged from 16 to 18, will participate in the project, discussing and creating “recommendations” through the use of the four language skills, the students will learn transversal skills. These abilities will include cultural expression, learning to learn, social and civic competence, as well as digital knowledge.Therefore such key competences will enable students to be actors of their performance as well as critical thinkers. This methodology is particularly apt for the inclusion of students who are either high or low academic achievers, potential early school-leavers, and it implements the principles of equal opportunities. The activities will be developed and carried out in English as the common language.
These recommendations will be drawn up and considered laws in this ideal society. A document, the “Blue Book”, will be assembled and shared in a blog,containing the various steps of production of recommendations, as well as the highlights of the proposals, and the final product. Furthermore, students will re-enact government roles and experiment some of the main functions and activities of the legislative assembly.
There will be seven mobilities; five students accompained by two teachers from each partner school will partecipate. After each mobility, the students will make news reports in their own schools on the specific areas of activities developed abroad. Also teachers will share the experience with their colleagues.
November 2018: only teachers involved in the project will meet in Italy in order to prepare and organize the activities.
February 2019 in Greece: students will meet for the first time. The objectives will be to acquire interpersonal skills in order to be able to bond as a multicultural group. Workshops will be organised where students will discuss about the meaning of “social equality” and “social discrimination”.
May 2019 in Spain: the objective will be to acquire writing skills. Workshops will be organized where students collaborate on writing recommendations. They will also visit government offices and interview local administrators.
November 2019 in Strasburg: during this mobility students and teachers will attend a Parliament setting in Strasburg where they can interview parliamentary journalists, visit the structure, assist to the debates, so developing critical thinking and analysis skills. They will also interview members of Parliament and learn about legislative process.
February 2020 in Romania: the objective will be to acquire rethorical reading skills through habits of mind: learners construct knowledge as they build cognitive maps for organizing and interpreting new information. These activities bring students together to collaborate on reading practices that help decode recommendations encouraging teamwork and extra creativity.
April 2020 in Croatia: students will create a “Blue Book” where all recommendations produced will be included . The “Blue Book” will be advertised on newspapers and social media in each participating country and also sent to governmental offices waiting for Neverland to become real….
It will also be uploaded on line and be incorporated to each partner school library; each year workshops can be organizedin each school where students debate about the already proposed themes in NE.M.I.R and broaden their horizons with new innovative ideas.
FINAL MEETING. May 2020 in Italy: the final product is a European enactment of a parliamentary sitting, where selected students from each country will bring about their “recommendations” . The involved schools will attend the sitting via Skype.
The project will be a unique opportunity for both the students and the teachers to enter the wonderful world of make-believe and explore it from different perspectives: as researchers, as audience and as creators themselves.
The schools will be able to experience a ‘creativity burst’ as well as open up to the local community, to other schools and to people and organisations related to government in people’s interest. Sharing their experiences and collaborating with their partners will result in a multi-cultural ‘creativity feast’. In this context, their students will be able to develop their linguistic skills experience through a more comprehensive approach to learning.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 32343 Eur

Project Coordinator

Liceo Statale”P.E. Imbriani” & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Colegiul National Nicu Gane
• INS Barres i Ones
• Pomorska skola
• 4th Geniko Lykeio of Arta