On Air Together! Erasmus Project

Project Title

On Air Together!

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: Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

“On Air Together!” was a 2-year project which aimed at developing a strategic partnership between 5 European high schools from Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania, Croatia and Greece. Literature, language, journalism, ICT, entrepreneurship and history teachers worked together with the secondary school students (15-19 years old) on creating works of the journalistic character that were shared on the project’s online radio platform-website, which currently contains podcasts or videos with interviews, news reports, pieces of reportage and music reviews from each partner school based on the cultural aspects, social phenomena or local problems from students’ regions or countries. Firstly, students developed their knowledge about journalistic genres so that the could later try it out in practice. The project consisted of 4 modules focused on 4 different types of radio journalism: interviews, news, music and reportage. Each module contributed to participants’ knowledge of different forms of journalism, as well as entrepreneurship and history of the radio. Participants were also encouraged to develop their critical thinking through considering the ethical implications of journalism and their responsible actions in the world of news, mass and social media.

During the project, partners maintained an online radio platform-website, organised workshops on various topics, conducted surveys for continuous evaluation, while students and teachers used cloud computing and a variety of media, ICT tools to prepare tutorials, podcasts, blog and social media posts, presentations, posters and many more. All the results are shared on the open license (CC-BY). The variety of products completed within the project developed participants’ skills: effective time and task management, communicative and social skills, motivation, positive attitude and responsibility. All those skills are necessary for academic education and professional career.

Students learned how to:
1. confidently and critically use the variety of ICT tools to produce podcasts, blog and social media posts, infographics, wikis, surveys, posters, etc.
2. communicate their ideas and opinions in English in a variety of forms (written, oral, formal and non-formal), developed awareness of intercultural understanding, dialogue and collaboration as well as demonstrated positive attitude and appreciation of cultural diversity.
3. identify needs, initiate, plan, manage, execute and evaluate actions with awareness of ethical implications that come with them, assuming different roles and developing motivation and determination in achieving set goals.

Whereas teachers learned how to:
1. implement different teaching and learning techniques and develop new teaching strategies for partner schools.
2. cooperate transnationally with partner schools and nationally with local partners and institutions, especially local radio stations.

With the implementation of the project, the Project Cycle Management (PCM) method was used together with a variety of formal and non-formal activities and tasks. The equipment bought for partner schools as well as the knowledge and competence gained thanks to the project are going to be used to further develop school radios and start student news agencies. The cooperation between partners is also maintained as most of the partner schools cooperate in the new project in 2019.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 113410,45 Eur

Project Coordinator

Prywatne Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace im. I.J. Paderewskiego & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Stredni prumyslova skola a Obchodni akademie Uhersky Brod
• LICEO CLASSICO E MUSICALE “G. PALMIERI”
• 6 GEL KAVALAS
• COLEGIUL NATIONAL GRIGORE MOISIL
• XI. GIMNAZIJA